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Bit-Istar was an Assyrian town and a local kingdom (c. 12th century BC - c. 710 BC) at western Zagros that according to inscriptions of Tiglath Pileser III and Sargon II was located close to the source of a river to the east of Dyala. Stronach and Calmeyer proposed Ravansar as a possible candidate for the place of Bit-Istar. Recent surveys by Y. Hassanzadeh led to discovery of new evidence indicating presence of rich 1st-mellenium remains close to the spring of Ravansar (34°43′0″N, 46°40′0″E). The ruler of this town during reign of Sargon II was Burburazu who brought his tributes to Sargon during his campaign to the region in 714 BC. A column base at the edge of Ravansar spring could belong to a temple that was built for Ishtar near "Water hole". Tang-i Var, famous Assyrian inscription from reign of Sargon II is located about 30 km to north of Ravansar. ==References== * Hassanzadeh, Y., M. Karami, F. Bahrol’oloomi, K. Taheri, A. Tahmasbi, A. Moradi Bisetouni and F. Biglari (2010) Khanileh: "New evidence of Chalcolithic and Early Historic occupations from northwest of the Kermanshah Plain, Central Zagros", ''Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History''. * Parpola, S. & M. Porter (2001) ''The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period'', Edited by: Simo Parpola & Michael Porter, The Casco Bay Assyriological Institute The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Finland. * Radner, K., (2003) "A Median Sanctuary at Bit-Ištar". In G.B. Lanfranchi, M. Roaf & R. Rollinger (ed.), ''Continuity of Empire: Assyria, Media, Persia''. History of the Ancient Near East Monographs 5 (Padova 2003) 119-130. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bit-Istar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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