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

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