Histology of corpuscles of Stannius in Lake Van fish ( Alburnus tarichi Güldenstädt, 1814) (Cyprinidae)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burak Kaptaner ◽  
Güler Ünal ◽  
Emine Doğan ◽  
Handan Aykut
Keyword(s):  
Lake Van ◽  
Corpuscles Of Stannius

The Irrigation Canal Stele of the Urartian King Argišti I Recently Discovered in Erciş/Salmanağa, North of Lake Van

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-213
Author(s):  
Kenan Işık
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation Canal ◽  
Lake Van ◽  
Irrigation Channel ◽  
Eastern Turkey

Abstract This article presents a recently-found inscribed stele belonging to the Urartian king Argišti I (ca. 785/80–756 BC). The stele was erected to commemorate the inauguration of an irrigation channel running off the Dainalitini Stream (modern Deliçay), north of Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. The inscription on this stele is important, both for localizing the Dainalitini Stream mentioned in Urartian texts, as well as understanding sacrificial rituals in agricultural contexts.

Measured Plans of Urartian Fortresses

1960 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Burney ◽  
G. R. J. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
General Information ◽  
Lake Van ◽  
North West ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

This article comprises descriptive and explanatory notes on a number of plans made during a plane-table survey carried out by the authors in the Van region in the summer of 1957. In addition to the plans and photographs, there are two details, one being an elevation. The form of publication is partly determined by the appearance of sketch-plans of most of these Urartian fortresses in a preliminary article. Apart from correction of certain errors in that article, the general information given therein will not be repeated. For the position of the various fortresses reference should be made to the map published in that preliminary report. To the sites marked thereon should be added two more, Aznavur and Kancıklı, both near Patnos, on the road north-west from Erciş. to Karaköse and thus some way north of Lake Van. Both are of major importance: Aznavur lies one mile north-west of Patnos and Kancıklı some nine miles south-east.

Seismic evidence of shallow gas from Lake Van, eastern Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 341-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Cukur ◽  
Sebastian Krastel ◽  
Yama Tomonaga ◽  
M. Namık Çağatay ◽  
Aysegül Feray Meydan
Keyword(s):  
Lake Van ◽  
Shallow Gas ◽  
Eastern Turkey

The mineralogy and firing behaviour of pottery clays of the Lake Van region, eastern Turkey

Clay Minerals ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Aras ◽  
S. Kiliç
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Chemical Characterization ◽  
Mineralogical Composition ◽  
Lake Van ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Firing Shrinkage

AbstractThe present study focused on the mineralogical and chemical characterization and firing behaviour of clays from the Lake Van region and compared them with the same characteristics established for two ancient pot sherds. Four pottery clays collected from Kutki and Kuşluk in the Kesan Valley to the south, from Kavakbaşı to the southwest and from Bardakçı village on the east coast of Lake Van were analysed by X-ray diffraction to identify mineralogical composition (bulk clays and <2 μm fractions after heating at 300–500°C and ethylene glycol solvation). Further analyses were conducted to determine the size distribution, chemical composition and physical properties of test bodies derived from these clays. The in situ weathered schist forming the primary micaceous red clays which are suitable for local pottery production are characterized by large muscovite-sericite-illite and small calcite contents. In contrast, the Bardakçı clays are dominated by large smectite contents and are only used sparingly in mixtures of local pottery production because they undergo firing shrinkage and present drying and firing flaws in the fired bodies. Firing ranges of ~800–900°C were inferred from the mineralogy and colours of the two ancient sherds from Kutki. As a result of mineralogical analysis of fired and unfired test bodies of these pottery clays and pot sherds, two different types of pastes were determined for pottery production in the Lake Van region: metamorphic and volcanic paste, the former characterized by a calcite-poor and mica-sericite-rich matrix and the latter by large smectite and small calcite contents.

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