Vol. 18 (2024): ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies

• Preface - The Ancient Capitals in the Ararat Plain of Armenia Conference in the Wine History Museum of Armenia 18 – 20 April 2023 in Ashtarak, Armenia

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Part I: The Ararat Plain in context

• Overview of the geology and related hazards of the Ararat depression

  Ara Avagyan , Dmitri Arakelyan , Seda Avagyan , Lilit Sahakyan , Rouben Haroutiunian , Naira Egnatosyan , Gagik Alaverdyan , Armen Asatryan

  4-25

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• Royal cities in the Ararat Valley: The relationship of kingship and city through archaeological and numismatic evidence

  Saskia Erhardt , Jessica Schellig

  26-47

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• Communication network of the Ararat Plain, Armenia. Geographical, economic, political dimensions (1st millennium BC – 1st millennium AD)

  Mkrtich H. Zardaryan

  48-75

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• Winemaking in the Ararat valley in the classical period (Armavir, Artashat, Vagharshapat)

  Ruzan Palanjyan

  76-87

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• Capital cities and royal dwellings of late Hellenistic Sophene and Commagene

  Michael Blömer

  88-116

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Part II: Royal cities from Armavir to Dvin

• Hellenistic Armavir: Architecture of the first capital city of Armenia

  Aminia Kanetsyan

  118-141

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• Yervandashat – Yervandakert. The Yervandid/Orontid capital and its Urartian past

  Syuzanna Muradyan

  142-158

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• Artaxata – The capital of Artaxiad Armenia in the light of archaeological research in the eastern Lower City and Hill XIII

  Hayk A. Gyulamiryan , Achim Lichtenberger , Syuzanna R. Muradyan , Torben Schreiber , Mkrtich H. Zardaryan

  159-174

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• Seleucid royal cities as a model for Artaxata? Considerations on the urban planning of the Hellenistic Armenian capital

  Winfried Held

  175-187

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• The agricultural landscape of Hellenistic Artaxata

  Andrea Orendi

  188-208

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• Domestic and wild animals in ancient Artaxata. Faunal report

  Valeska Becker

  209-227

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• Formation of urban space on the territory of Vagharshapat

  Artak Gnuni , Levon Mkrtchyan , Anzhela Tadevosyan

  228-243

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• Metsamor. Reconstruction of urban space arrangement and its significance

  Krzysztof Jakubiak

  244-262

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• Jar burial of Metsamor. Results of the preliminary examination

  Ashot Piliposyan , Hasmik Simonyan , Krzysztof Jakubiak , Mateush Iskra , Tigran Zakyan , Lusine Aleksanyan

  263-274

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• Marble columnar sarcophagi in the context of the Arsacids palace residence in Garni

  Hasmik Margaryan

  275-295

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• Early Medieval Dvin: Some preliminary remarks

  Hamlet Petrosyan

  296-307

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