HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
DZORABERD
2nd millennium BC
State index: 1.3.1
The site is located on Qerru
Street, on a high promontory along the left bank of the Hrazdan River,
approximately 500 m west of the building of the Yerevan Research Institute of
Mathematical Machines, within a densely built-up urban environment.
This small fortified settlement
served as an intermediate station between the Bronze Age fortresses of Karmir
Berd and Tsitsernakaberd Fortress. The settlement occupies the northern and
southern elevations of the promontory, as well as the depression between them,
where remains of fortification walls and structures have been preserved. On the
southern summit stands a monumental rectangular building whose walls,
approximately 2 m thick, are constructed of massive boulders filled with earth
and stone packing.
Below the fortified settlement,
on the left bank of the Hrazdan River and about 80 m above the riverbed, is the
Nеw Arabkir-1 (Dzoraberd-1)
cave dwelling (2nd millennium BC; 14th–17th centuries AD; State index:
1.3.1.1).
In 1975, it was investigated by
an expedition of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian
SSR Academy of Sciences under the direction of Benik Yeritsyan. The excavations
yielded obsidian artifacts, a bone awl, a sandstone burnisher, fragments of
coarse and glazed late medieval bowls, and fragments of an iron tool.
