A R A M A Z D
ARMENIAN JOURNAL
OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR EASTERN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES
YEREVAN, 2011
ARTICLES
Andrew W. Kandel, Boris Gasparyan, Angela A. Bruch, Lior Weissbrod, Diana Zardaryan. Introducing Aghitu-3, the First Upper Paleolithic Cave Site in Armenia…….………………………………………………………………………………….7-23
Inessa hovsepyan, Alla mnatsakanyan. The Technological Specifics of Early Bronze Age Ceramics in Armenia: Tsaghkasar-1 and Talin Cemetery………………24-54
Manuel Castelluccia, A Transcaucasian Bronze Belt in a Japanese Collection..55-67
Jaan puhvel. Elliptic Genitives and Hypostatic Nouns in Hittite……………………68-72
Craig H. Melchert. Enclitic Subject Pronouns in Hieroglyphic Luvian ……………73-86
Aram Kosyan. Towards the Hittite Eastern Periphery (KUB XLIX 11)…………87-94
Margarit Khachikyan. Split Ergativity in Urartian………..………………..…….95-100
Nicolay Harutyunyan, Sona Grigoryan. Urartian zieldi and zieldubi …..101-103
Raffaele Biscione, Roberto Dan. Dimensional and Geographical Distribution of the Urartian Fortifications in the Republic of Armenia ….…….…………………….104-120
Stéphane Deschamps, Francois Fichet de Clairfontaine, David Stronach. Erebuni: The Environs of the Temple of Haldi during the 7th and 6th Centuries B.C.…………………………………………………………121-140
Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Why are the Nymphs Grieving in Xanthos ?………………141-156
Armen Petrosyan, Nvard Tiratsyan, First Armenian Capital Armawir as a Cult Center………………………………157-169
Grigor Grigoryan. John of Jerusalem and His Exposition of Faith. …………170-202
Pavel Chobanyan. The Struggle of Armenians for the Preservation of the Monasteries in Jerusalem between XII and XV Centuries…….…203-215
IN MEMORIAM
Gevorg Tiratsyan …………………………………………………………………………..216-219
SUMMARIES…………………………………………………………………………….220-232
ABBREVIATIONS…………………………………………………………………………….233
TABLES……………………………………………………………………………………234-258