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Title

Over the mountains and far away : studies in near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday / edited by Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan and Yervand H. Grekyan.

Publication

• Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Salvini, Mirjo
• Avetisyan, P. S. (Pavel S.), 1957-
• Dan, Roberto
• Grekyan, Yervand H.

Description

xviii, 570 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Archaeopress Archaeology

Uniform Title

Archaeopress archaeology.

Subjects

• Middle East
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Antiquities
• History
• Middle East > Antiquities
• Middle East > History > To 622
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East
• To 622
• Urartians > History
• Hittites > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages vi-xiii).

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

Bīsotūn, "Urartians" and "Armenians" of the Achaemenid Texts, and the Origins of the Exonyms Armina and Arminiya / 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 and 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 / Miqayel Badalyan, Gian Pietro Basello and Roberto Dan -- Šiuini: The Urartian Sun god / Miqayel Badalyan -- 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! / 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 / Arsen Bobokhyan, Alessandra Gilibert and 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 / Roberto Dan, Yeghis Keheyan, Nelli Hovhannisyan, Artur Petrosyan, Yelena Atoyants, Priscilla Vitolo and Boris Gasparyan -- 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. / Stéphane Deschamps, François Fichet de Clairfontaine and Mary Karapetyan -- 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 Martirosyan -- 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 / Artur Petrosyan, Roberto Dan and Priscilla Vitolov -- 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, Iran / Marie-Claude Trémouille, Roberto Dan, Keomars Haji Mohammad and Ebrahim Bodaghi -- "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 and 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.

Call Number

JFG 20-5

ISBN

• 9781784919436
• 1784919438

LCCN

2019393217

OCLC

1099828539

Title

Over the mountains and far away : studies in near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday / edited by Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan and Yervand H. Grekyan.

Publisher

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Archaeopress Archaeology

Archaeopress archaeology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages vi-xiii).

Language

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

Chronological Term

To 622

Added Author

Salvini, Mirjo, honouree.

Avetisyan, P. S. (Pavel S.), 1957- editor.

Dan, Roberto, editor.

Grekyan, Yervand H., editor.

Research Call Number

JFG 20-5