ARAMAZD ARMENIAN JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES COMPLETE CONTENTS 2006-2017 ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR EASTERN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES, YEREVAN OXFORD 2017 Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies in collaboration with 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 and Armen Petrosyan Associate Editors: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Nshan Thomas Kesecker and Linda Anderson Editorial Board: Levon Abrahamian, Gregory Areshian, Pavel Avetisyan, Raffaele Biscione, Elizabeth Fagan, Andrew George, 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 Vice-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 978-1-78969-484-0 ISBN 978-1-78969-485-7 (ePdf) © Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies, Yerevan 2019. All rights reserved. Typeset and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK Subscriptions to Aramazd should be sent to Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Summertown Pavilion, 18-24 Middle Way, Oxford OX2 7LG, 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 VOLUME I - 20066 VOLUME III - 20077 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 VOLUME III, Issue 1 - 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES ANDREW R. GEORGE. Shattered Tablets and Tangled Threads: Editing Gilgamesh, Then and Now ........................................................................................................ 7-30 GIORGI BEDIANASHVILI. Reflections on One Dagger Type from the Koban Collection of the Georgian State Museum ........................................................................................................................................ 31-39 FREDERIK Kortlandt. Arm. ewł ‘oil’ ......................................................................................... 40-41 ARMEN petrosyan. “Proto-Paris” and “Proto-Achilles” in Indo-European Context ............... 42-46 JOHN A.C. GREPPIN. Did the Good Wines Come from Armenia? .................................................... 47-52 SARGIS Harutyunyan. Breach of the Ritual (The Mythologem of the Ritual Girdle) ............... 53-60 MARGARIT Khachikyan. To the Genesis of the Category of Aspect in Hurrian and Urartian .......................................................................................................... 61-69 Nicolay Harutyunyan. New Readings and Interpretations in Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions ......................................................................................................... 70-78 NVARD TIRATSYAN. Luwian Gods in Urartu? ............................................................................... 79-86 Hayk Avetisyan, WILFRID ALLINGER-CSOLLICH. A Bronze Sculpture from Aramus ......... 87-90 Khatchadourian LORI. The 2005-2006 Excavations of the Iron III Settlement at Tsaghkahovit .................................................................................................... 91-100 FELIX TER-Mrtirosov. The Excavations of Yervandašat in 2005-2007 .................................. 101-116 SERGE Mouraviev. The Origin of Armenian Grammatonyms ................................................. 117-123 BOOK REVIEWS JARED L. MILLER, Studies in the Origins, Development and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals (Aram Kosyan) �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 124-125 PERSONALIA SARGIS Harutyunyan (Armen Petrosyan) ............................................................................ 126-129 IN MEMORIAM BORIS PIOTROVSKY (Gregory Areshian, Simon Hmayakyan) ................................................... 130-153 VLADIMIR TOPOROV (Levon Abrahamyan) ............................................................................... 154-159 SERGEI Mandrikyan (Aram Gevorkyan, Ida Karapetyan) ����������������������������������������������������� 160-163 SUMMARIES ................................................................................................................................ 164-178 ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 179-180 6 VOLUME III, Issue 2 - 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES JAMES P. mallory. Migrations in Prehistoric Eurasia: Problems in the Correlation of Archaeology and Language ........................................................................................................... 7-38 pavel Avetisyan. Recently Found Archaeological Sites of Armenia (Agarak) .................... 39-50 GREGORY E. ARESHIAN. Die Beziehungen der Kulturen des Armenischen Hochlands und der Zentralgebiete Südkaukasiens zu Vorderasien und der Ägäis in der Trialeti-Epoche .................................................................................................................. 51-90 ARSEN Bobokhyan. Bemerkungen zu den Kommunikationsarterien des Kulturgebiets zwischen Kaukasus und Taurus, ca. 2500-1500 v. Chr. ....................................... 91-140 MIRJO SALVINI. Minima Urartaica ..................................................................................... 141-147 JOHN A.C. GREPPIN. Urartian Sibilants in Armenian ......................................................... 148-152 MICHAEL HERLES. Das Kamel in Assyrien und Urartu ...................................................... 153-180 hayk hakobyan, SIMON hmayakyAN. Recently Found Boundary Stelae from Sevan Lake Basin ..................................................................................................................... 181-189 BOOK REVIEWS YVES Calvet, MARGUERITE YON (eds.), Ougarit. Au Bronze moyen et au Bronze récent (Aram Kosyan) ................................................................. 190 VALÉRIE MatoÏAN (ed.), Le mobilier du palais royal d’Ougarit (Aram Kosyan) .................... 191 SUMMARIES ........................................................................................................................ 192-204 ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................ 205-206 6 VOLUME IV, Issue 1 - 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________ ARTICLES CHRISTIAN KONRAD PILLER. Ein „echter“ Hortfund? Zur Datierung eines Metallfundes aus Raum A113 in Arslantepe bei Malatya ............................................................