Aramazd 2015-1

ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES VOLUME IX, ISSUE 1 – 2015 ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR EASTERN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES YEREVAN 2015 ²ð²Ø²¼¸ ØºðÒ²ìàð²ðºìºÈÚ²Ü àôêàôØÜ²êÆðàôÂÚàôÜÜºðÆ Ð²ÚÎ²Î²Ü Ð²Ü¸ºê Ð²îàð IX, Ð²Ø²ð 1 – 2015 ²è²æ²ìàð²êÆ²Î²Ü ºì ÎàìÎ²êÚ²Ü Ðºî²¼àîàôÂÚàôÜÜºðÆ ²êàòÆ²òÆ² ºðºì²Ü 2015 Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies In collaboration with the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (AJNES) Editor–in–Chief: Aram Kosyan Vice–Editor: Armen Petrosyan Associate Editors: Arsen Bobokhyan, Yervand Grekyan Editorial Board: Levon Abrahamian, Gregory Areshian, Pavel Avetisyan, Raffaele Biscione, Elizabeth Fagan, Andrew George, John Greppin, Hrach Martirosyan, Mirjo Salvini, Ursula Seidl, Adam Smith, Aram Topchyan, Vardan Voskanyan, Ilya Yakubovich Communications for the editors, manuscripts, and books for review should be addressed to the Editor–in–Chief or Associate Editors. Editorial Office: Marshal Baghramyan Ave. 24/4, 375019, Yerevan, Armenia Tel. (374 10) 58 33 82 Fax: (374 10) 52 50 91 E–mail: [email protected], [email protected] http://www.ancs.am ISSN 1829–1376 © 2015 by Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies, Yerevan. All rights reserved. Reprinted 2017 Subscriptions to Aramazd should be sent to Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Gordon House, 276 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7ED, UK Tel +44-(0)1865-311914 Fax +44(0)1865-512231 e-mail [email protected] http://www.archaeopress.com All back volumes are available from Archaeopress website THE PUBLICATION OF THIS JOURNAL IS SPONSORED BY THE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN ARMENIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES AND FUNDED BY THE CHITJIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (USA) TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES VARDUHI MELIKYAN. Newly Found Middle Bronze Age Tombs of Karashamb Cemetery: Preliminary Report .............................................................. 7–28 ARSEN BOBOKHYAN. Trojan Measuring Devices of Lead ................................................... 29–40 ARAM KALATARYAN †, GAGIK SARGSYAN, NORA YENGIBARYAN, VARDUHI MELIKYAN. Results of Excavations in Gogaran, 2007-2008 ............................... 41–57 ARTHUR PETROSYAN, ROBERTO DAN, RICCARDO LA FARINA, MATTIA RACCIDI, MANUEL CASTELLUCCIA, BORIS GASPARYAN, ASTGHIK BABAJANYAN. The Kotayk Survey Project (KSP): Preliminary Report on 2014 Fieldwork Activity ......................................................... 58–68 JAAN PUHVEL. Another look at Hittite saktai- ....................................................................... 69–72 İLKNUR TAŞ, VEYSEL DINLER. Hittite Criminal Law in the Light of Modern Paradigms. Searching for the Traces of Modern-Day Criminal Law in the Past .................................................................. 73–90 YERVAND GREKYAN. The Regnal Years of the Urartian Kings Argišti Menuaḫi and Sarduri Argištiḫi ................................................................................................. 91–124 MIQAYEL BADALYAN. The Urartian Weather God Teišeba ............................................. 125–142 ALEXANDER SACHSENMAIER. Remarks on the Reconstruction of the susi Buildings of Erebuni and Karmir-Blur................................................... 143–153 YERVAND GREKYAN, POORYA KASHANI. Urartian Inscribed Bronze Artifacts from the Reza Abbasi Museum, Iran ....................................................................... 154–158 NORA YENGIBARYAN. Towards a Seal Type Discovered in Armenia ............................... 159–162 ANNE ELIZABETH REDGATE. Seeking Promotion in the Challenging 640s: the Amatuni Church at Ptghni, Ideas of Political Authority, and Paulician Challenge – a Background to the Teaching of Anania Shirakatsi .................................................................................................... 163–176 GAGIK SARGSYAN, ARSEN HARUTYUNYAN. Excavations of the Single-Nave Church of Mirak, 2012-2013 ................................................................................... 177–193 SUMMARIES ........................................................................................................................ 195–208 ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................ 209-210 TABLES .................................................................................................................................. 211-266 ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES VOLUME IX, ISSUE 2 – 2015 ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR EASTERN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES YEREVAN 2015 [2016] ²ð²Ø²¼¸ ØºðÒ²ìàð²ðºìºÈÚ²Ü àôêàôØÜ²êÆðàôÂÚàôÜÜºðÆ Ð²ÚÎ²Î²Ü Ð²Ü¸ºê Ð²îàð IX, Ð²Ø²ð 2 – 2015 ²è²æ²ìàð²êÆ²Î²Ü ºì ÎàìÎ²êÚ²Ü Ðºî²¼àîàôÂÚàôÜÜºðÆ ²êàòÆ²òÆ² ºðºì²Ü 2015 [2016] Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies In collaboration with the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (AJNES) Editor–in–Chief: Aram Kosyan Vice–Editors: Arsen Bobokhyan, Yervand Grekyan, Armen Petrosyan Editorial Board: Levon Abrahamian, Gregory Areshian, Pavel Avetisyan, Raffaele Biscione, Elizabeth Fagan, Andrew George, John Greppin†, Hrach Martirosyan, Mirjo Salvini, Ursula Seidl, Adam Smith, Aram Topchyan, Vardan Voskanyan, Ilya Yakubovich Communications for the editors, manuscripts, and books for review should be addressed to the Editor–in–Chief or Associate Editors. Editorial Office: Marshal Baghramyan Ave. 24/4, 375019, Yerevan, Armenia Tel. (374 10) 58 33 82 Fax: (374 10) 52 50 91 E–mail: [email protected], [email protected] http://www.ancs.am ISSN 1829–1376 © 2016 by Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies, Yerevan. All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES PHIL GLAUBERMAN, BORIS Gasparyan, KEITH WILKINSON, Ellery FRAHM, YANNICK RACZYNSKI-HENK, Hayk Haydosyan, DMITRI Arakelyan, SERGEY KARAPETYAN†, SAMVEL Nahapetyan, DANIEL ADLER. Introducing Barozh 12: A Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site on the Edge of the Ararat Depression, Armenia ............................................................ 7–20 BORIS Gasparyan, Arthur Petrosyan. Tools with an Abrupt, Regular, Sub-Parallel Retouch from the Armenian Highlands and the Near East: “Apnagyugh Tools”, “Lekala” or “Hook-Like Tools” and “Çayönü Tools”................ 21–30 ANNA AZIZYAN. Preliminary Notes on Bird in Symbolic System of the Kura-Araxes Culture of Armenia ........................................................................ 31–36 ARSEN Bobokhyan, ALESSANDRA Gilibert, PAVOL HNILA, BORIS Gasparyan, HENRIK Danielyan. New Finds of Vishaps on the Southern Slopes of the Mountain Aragats ......................................................... 37–43 JAAN PUHVEL. ‘Army’ in Hittite: A Tertium for tuzzi .............................................................. 44–49 Kenan IşIK, MIrjo SalvInI. A New Urartian Cuneiform Bulla from Ayanis in the Van Museum ................................................................................... 50–54 Roberto DAN. Circles in Stone: Urartian Decorative Inlay Stonework ............................... 55–66 BÜLENT GENÇ. The ‘Door of Ḫaldi’ in Pagan/Yeşilalıç and a New Approach on susi Temple............................................................................ 67–76 NORA Yengibaryan. Reflections Towards a Type of Belt Buckle........................................ 77–81 HanIfI BIBer, Kenan IşIK, SaBaHattIn erdoğan. The Story of Tirmet Stele (Reconstruction of Tirmet Stele in the light of New Stele Fragments).......................... 82–91 HASMIK margaryan. Terracotta Statuettes of “Temple Boys” of Ancient Armenia (The Issue of the Typology and Interpretation) .......................................................... 92–109 GAREGIN Tumanyan. The Burials Discovered During Excavations of the Trench H12 at Agarak Archaeological Complex .............................................. 110–121 SUSANNA adamyan. The Epigraphs of Aramus according to the Records by Mesrop Archbishop Smbatyants ........................................................................... 122–128 GOR MARGARYAN. Quelques remarques sur l’histoire économique-fiscale de l’ Arménie en période post-ilkhanide ................................................................... 129–139 SUMMARIES ........................................................................................................................ 141–154 ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................ 155–156 TABLES .................................................................................................................................. 157–219.

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