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Subject(s)

• Urartians—History [Browse]
• Hittites—History [Browse]
• Excavations (Archaeology)—Middle East [Browse]
• Middle East—History—To 622 [Browse]
• Middle East—Antiquities [Browse]

Honouree

• Salvini, Mirjo [Browse]

Editor

• Avetisyan, P. S. (Pavel S.), 1957- [Browse]
• Dan, Roberto [Browse]
• Grekyan, Yervand H. [Browse]

Series

• Archaeopress archaeology. [More in this series]
• Archaeopress Archaeology

Summary note

This volume is a tribute to the career of Professor Mirjo Salvini on the occasion his 80th birthday, composed of 62 papers written by his colleagues and students. The majority of contributions deal with research in the fields of Urartian and Hittite Studies, the topics that attracted Prof. Salvini most during his long and fruitful career.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

Contains fifty-one papers in English, two in French, two in German and seven in Italian with abstracts in English and French.

Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Editorial
• Foreword
• Bibliography
• Bīsotūn, 'Urartians' and 'Armenians' of the Achaemenid Texts,1 and the Origins of the Exonyms Armina and Arminiya2
• Gregory E. Areshian
• Human Images from the Eastern Urartian Periphery: Anthropomorphic Sculpture of Syunik on the Cusp of the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC
• Hayk Avetisyan, Artak Gnuni, Gagik Sargsyan, Arsen Bobokhyan
• Cult-Places of Ancient Armenia: A Diachronic View and an Attempt of Classification
• Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan
• The Elamite Tablets from Armavir-Blur (Armenia): A Re-Examination*
• Gian Pietro Basello
• Miqayel Badalyan
• Roberto Dan
• Šiuini: The Urartian Sun god
• Protective Clay Figurines in the Urartian Fortresses
• Atilla Batmaz
• Mesopotamians and Mesopotamian Learning at Hattusa, Thirty Years On
• Gary Beckman
• Too Many Horns in the Temple of the God Hadad of Aleppo at the Time of the Ebla Archives!1
• Maria Giovanna Biga
• The Roots of the Urartian Kingdom: The Growth of Social Complexity on the Armenian Plateau Between Ancient Bronze and Early Iron Ages
• Raffaele Biscione
• Thoughts about the Audience-Hall of Naramsin at Tell Asmar-Ešnunna
• Felix Blocher
• The Urartian God Quera and the Metamorphosis of the 'Vishap' Cult
• Alessandra Gilibert
• Arsen Bobokhyan
• Pavol Hnila
• Laḫmu, 'The Hairy One', and the Puzzling Issue of Mythology in Middle Assyrian Glyptic Art*
• Dominik Bonatz
• The First Gilgamesh Conjectures About the Earliest Epic
• Giorgio Buccellati
• Ayanis Fortress: Only a Military Fortress or More?
• Altan Çilingiroğlu
• Granaries in Urartu and Neighboring States and the Monumentalization of Administrative Records
• Birgit Christiansen
• Hasanlu, the Southern Caucasus and Early Urartu*
• Megan Cifarelli.
• The King of the Rock Revisited: The Site of As-Sila (Tafila, Jordan) and the Inscription of Nabonidus of Babylon
• Rocío Da Riva
• A New Painting Fragment from Erebuni and an Overview of Urartian Wall Paintings
• Artur Petrosyan
• Boris Gasparyan
• Nelli Hovhannisyan
• Priscilla Vitolo
• Yeghis Keheyan
• Yelena Atoyants
• New Observations Regarding the Urartian Inscription of the Tul-e Talesh Bracelet
• Maryam Dara
• Nouvelles réflexions relatives à la fin du royaume d'Ourartou - la forteresse d'Erebuni vers la fin du VIIe siècle av. J.-C.
• François Fichet de Clairfontaine
• Mary Karapetyan
• Stéphane Deschamps
• Quand dieu aide les vainqueurs...
• Jean-Marie Durand*
• The Relationship between State and Nomads in the Urartian Kingdom
• Aylin Ü. Erdem
• Alcune considerazioni sulla posizione di Uršum e Ḫaššum/Ḫaššuwa: dal commercio paleo-assiro al regno di Ḫattušili I
• Massimo Forlanini
• L'espressione (ANA) PANI NP nei colofoni ittiti
• Rita Francia
• From Khazane Kapoussi/Hazine Kapısı to Analıkız: Rethinking a Place at Tušpa Citadel
• Bülent Genç
• Some Remarks on Qulḫa
• Levan Gordeziani
• The Problem of the Origin of the Urartian Scribal School
• Yervand Grekyan
• The Cross Statue as a Symbol of Christianizing Armenia
• Grigor Grigoryan
• Oshakan Tomb No. 25 Revisited*
• Michael Herles
• Urartian Envoys to Ashurbanipal's Court - Some Remarks on the Assyro - Urartian Relations in the First Half of the 7th Century BC
• Krzysztof Hipp
• The 'City of Ḫaldi' in the Land of Uaza
• Simon Hmayakyan
• Urartian Inscriptions at the Van Museum. A New Collection
• Kenan Işık
• Towards the Reconstruction of the Hurro-Urartian Protolanguage
• Margarit Khachikyan
• A New Rock-Cut Tomb in Van Fortress/Tushpa
• Erkan Konyar
• Upper Euphrates Political Geography Reconsidered
• Aram Kosyan.
• The Urartian Rock-Cut Chamber at Yelpin / Armenia
• Stephan Kroll
• Le terre di Urartu nella descrizione di Strabone
• Gianfranco Maddoli
• The Armenian Patronymic Arcruni
• Hrach Martirosyan1
• Iron Age Luvian tarrawann(i)-
• H. Craig Melchert
• An Echo of Assyria in Plutarch's Life of Alexander
• Sarah C. Melville
• Lo strano caso del Sig. VITA+RA/I, scriba '4' alla corte ittita
• Clelia Mora
• From Petroglyphs to Alphabet. A Brief Characterization of the Writing Culture of Pre-Christian Armenia
• Artak Movsisyan
• New Iri-Saĝrig Ration Distribution and Related Texts
• David I. Owen
• Le melograne della basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
• Neda Parmegiani
• On the Ethnic Origin of the Ruling Elite of Urartu
• Armen Petrosyan
• Solak 1. Una fortezza urartea nella valle del Hrazdan, Armenia
• Roberto Dan and Priscilla Vitolo
• Un piccolo frammento di una lunga storia: un cammello a Tell Barri/Kahat (Siria)
• Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
• New Ways of Etymologizing Certain Fragments of the Cuneiform Inscription of Tanahat
• Ashot Piliposyan
• A Note about an Ewer of Probable Anatolian Production, from One of the Tombs of the Assyrian Queens at Nimrud*
• Frances Pinnock
• Armenian Toponyms in the 'Patria Quae Dicitur Parthia' according to the Cosmographia of Ravennas Anonymus
• Daniel T. Potts
• Updates on Verbal Transitivity and Nominal Ellipsis in Hittite
• Jaan Puhvel
• The Assyria-Urartu Relationship and the Political Role of Mercenaries
• Julian Edgeworth Reade
• Zur Frage des Weiterlebens urartäischer Namen in achaimenidischer Zeit
• Rüdiger Schmitt
• Auf der Suche nach einem Reichsgott für Urartu
• Ursula Seidl
• Everyday Life in Trialeti (South Caucasus) in the Middle and the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium BC
• Nino Shanshashvili and Goderdzi Narimanishvili.
• A New Fragment of an Inscription of Rusa, Son of Argišti, from the susi Temple of Bastam, Iran1
• Ebrahim Bodaghi
• Keomars Haji Mohammadi
• Marie-Claude Trémouille and Roberto Dan
• 'Excavating' Looted Tombs at Pessinus (2011-2013)
• Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
• The Bronze Stamp Seals of Marlik: Evidence of Bronze Age Links with Eastern Iran and Central Asia
• Ali A. Vahdati
• Amir Saed Mucheshi
• Beyt'a Mêzînê A Trace of the Qur'anic Influence on the Yezidi Oral Religious Tradition
• Vardan Voskanian
• The Ethno-Cultural Diversity of Central Anatolian Early Iron Age Inhabitants
• Jak Yakar
• The Mighty Weapon of Tarhunt
• Ilya Yakubovich
• Illiterate Urartians: Writing and the Ayanis Outer Town
• Paul Zimansky.

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ISBN

1-78491-944-6

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