ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Archaeology: Volume XVII Issue 1-2 2023

Contents

Issue 1

The Bronze Age fortresses of the Southern Urals – Ivan Semyan

Hittite mi-e-nu-us: Humans as ‘meek’ or ‘lesser’ – Jaan Puhvel

Hartapu – Hittite afterlife following the empire – Michael Banyai

Not hostile but loyal kings in Tabal, c. 735 BC. A new interpretation of TOPADA §§ 3-4 – Martien Dillo

Stamp impressions from ancient Artashat in Armenia – Achim Lichtenberger, Torben Schreiber, Carmen Ting and Mkrtich H. Zardaryan

Reinforcement of Medieval infrastructure: Medieval castles and caravanserais in Aruch and Dashtadem along the Dvin-Ani transit route – Astghik Babajanyan

Widder- und pferdeförmige Grabsteine: ein religions- und völker-übergreifendes Phänomen – Diether Schürr

Nurnus monastery and its excavations – Avetis Grigoryan, Artak Ghulyan and Hasmik Simonyan

Obituaries

Altan Çilingiroğlu (1945-2021)

From Van to Bastam: Wolfram Kleiss (1930-2020)

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (1962-2022)

Armenian Summaries

Issue 2

Foreword – Aram Kosyan

The Urartian Onomasticon: A prosopographic study – Yervand H. Grekyan

1. Introduction

2. General remarks

3. The royal names

4. Urartian and assumed Urartian names

5. Theophoric names

6. Names by ethnic/territorial affiliation

7. Names of Indo-European origin

8. Semitic names

9. The Eastern Taurus: Indigenous and Semitic names

10. Feminine personal names

11. ‘Urartian’ names in Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid-period inscriptions

12. Unspecified anthroponyms

13. Disputable names

14. Statistical analyses of the onomastic data

15. Concluding notes

16. Instead of epilogue

Appendices

Bibliography

Armenian Summary