| Statuette of God Teisheba | |
| Year: | 800-700 B.C. |
| Type: | bronze |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Yerevan |
| Museum: | History Museum of Armenia |
| Italic Title: | no |
The Statuette of God Teisheba is an Urartian (Kingdom of Van) bronze statuette made in the 8-7th century BC, found near Teishebaini (Karmir Blur) in 1941, depicting the Araratian (Urartian) god of storms and thunder Teisheba.[1] [2] It is at the History Museum of Armenia, in Yerevan.[3] The statuette was found by Hripsime Janpoladyan who was the wife of the head of expedition Boris Piotrovsky.
The statuette looks like a young man who in full height stands on a foliate base. The man wears a gown on which there are characteristic ornaments of Urartian period: a quadrangle with a rosette in the centre, a belt on his waist, a fringed band over his shoulder. Hair of God Teisheba go down over his shoulders, on head he has a high headgear covered with horns, which represent the bull, the symbol of Teisheba. On the left hand of the statuette there is a battle-axe, and on the right hand a disc-shaped mace, his left arm is folded in the elbow.[4]