ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume XII.2 2018

Established in 2006 by the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies in corporation with Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) AJNES is the only periodical in the Republic of Armenia devoted exclusively to the investigation of ancient and medieval cultures of the Near East and the Caucasus. Articles appearing in its pages are contributions of scholars of international reputation in history, archaeology, philology, art, religion and science. Table of Contents for Volume XII Issue 2: 'Landscape of Memory': the case of Bronze and Iron Age Armenia - by Hayk Avetisyan, Artak Gnuni and Arsen Bobokhyan; Early Bronze Age burial mounds in Avan - by Firdus Muradyan; Excavations at Late Bronze Age tombs of Lori Berd - by Seda Devedjyan and Suren Hobosyan; Varietal veridicy in Hittite s-etyma - by Jaan Puhvel; Iskuz(a) - by Ran Zadok; The rock-cut archaeological complex of Yelpin-1, Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia - by Roberto Dan, Boris Gasparyan, Priscilla Vitolo, Artur Petrosyan, Tommaso Saccone, Samvel Nahapetyan, Ani Adigyozalyan, Ghasem Moradi and Chiara Zecchi; Some analyses of pigments from Erebuni - by Yeghis Keheyan, Miqayel Badalyan and Roberto Dan; An Urartian stele base from Beydamari, Turkey - by Roberto Dan; The Early Iron Age settlement of Artashat and problems of chrono-topography of the site (pre-Classical period) - by Mkrtich H. Zardaryan; The golden statue of the goddess Anahit in the context of the artistic culture of ancient Armenia - by Hasmik Margaryan; Newly found tombs at the north-eastern outskirts of Artashat - by Hayk Gyulamiryan; Stamped pottery from Tigranakert in Artsakh - by Armine Gabrielyan; A Sasanian coin of Khosrow I and an Abbasid coin of Al-Mansur from the Areni-1 Cave, Armenia - by Armine Zohrabyan, Boris Gasparyan and Roberto Dan; A newly discovered building inscription - by Gagik Sargsyan; In Memoriam; Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (1929-2017) - by Brent Vine and Ilya Yakubovich; From Aegean, over Euphrates, to Indus: the life and the work of Harald Hauptmann - by Arsen Bobokhyan; Summaries; Abbreviations