ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES VOLUME II - 2007 ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR EASTERN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES YEREVA N 2007 ²ð²Ø²¼¸ غðÒ²ìàð²ðºìºÈÚ²Ü àôêàôØܲêÆðàôÂÚàôÜܺðÆ Ð²ÚÎ²Î²Ü Ð²Ü¸ºê вîàð II - 2007 ²è²æ²ìàð²êÆ²Î²Ü ºì ÎàìβêÚ²Ü Ðºî²¼àîàôÂÚàôÜܺðÆ ²êàòƲòƲ ºðºì²Ü 2007 Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies In cooperation 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: Tork Dalalyan, Arsen Bobokhyan Assistant Editor: Yervand Grekyan Advisory Board: Gregory Areshian, Pavel Avetisyan, Raffaele Biscione, Andrew George, John Greppin, Hrach Martirosyan, Mirjo Salvini, Ursula Seidl, Adam Smith, Aram Topchyan, Vardan Voskanyan Communications for the editors, manuscripts, and books for review should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief or Assistant Editor of ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near-Eastern Studies. Editorial Office: Marshal Baghramyan Ave. 24g, 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 © 2007 by Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies, Yerevan. All rights reserved. Reprinted 2017 Subscriptions to Aramazd shouldshould bebe sentsent toto Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Gordon House, 276 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7ED, UK Tel +44-(0)1865-311914 Fax +44(0)1865-512231 e-maile-mail [email protected]@archaeopress.com http://www.archaeopress.com All back volumes are available formfrom Archaeopress website TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES Mariya Ivanova. The Chronology of the “Maikop Culture” in the North Caucasus: Changing Perspectives ............................................................................................................................ 7-39 MehMet IşIklI. A Collection of Kura-Araxes Pottery from Kars Museum .................................... 40-51 JOHN Cherry, Sturt MANNING, SUSAN ALCOCK, ARMEN Tonikyan, Mkrtich Zardaryan. Radiocarbon Dates for the Second and First Millennia B.C. from Southern Armenia: Preliminary Results from the Vorotan Project, 2005-2006 ........................... 52-71 IRENA Kalantaryan. The Principal Forms and Characteristics of Burial Constructions in Early Bronze Age Armenia ............................................................................. 72-84 JAAN PUHVEL. Reed and Arrow in Anatolia and Beyond ................................................................. 85-87 HRACH Martirosyan. Mediterranean-Pontic Substratum Words in Armenian ........................ 88-123 ANNE-MARIA WITTKE. Das Land Mušku ................................................................................... 124-136 URSULA SEIDL. Wer gründete Rusaḫinili/Toprakkale? ................................................................. 137-145 MIRJO Salvini. Argišti, Rusa, Erimena, Rusa und die Löwenschwänze: Eine urartäische Palastgeschichte des VII. Jh. v. Chr. ..................................................................... 146-162 David STRONACH. The Campaign of Cyrus the Great in 547 BC. A Hitherto Unrecognized Source for the Early History of Armenia? ............................................... 163-173 ARMEN Petrosyan. State Pantheon of Greater Armenia: Earliest Sources ............................. 174-201 BOOK REVIEWS ANNE-MARIA WITTKE, Mušker und Phryger (Aram Kosyan) .................................................... 202-206 PERSONALIA HRACH Bartikyan (Azat Bozoyan) .......................................................................................... 207-211 JOHN GREPPIN (Aram Kosyan) ..................................................................................................... 212-217 ARAM Kalantaryan (Husik Melkonyan) ............................................................................... 218-219 IN MEMORIAM EMMA Khanzadyan (Arsen Bobokhyan) ................................................................................. 220-225 SUMMARIES ................................................................................................................................. 226-237 ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................................ 238-239.