Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies: Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

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Bridging Times and Spaces is composed of papers written by colleagues of Professor Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion his 65th birthday reflecting the breadth and diversity of his scholarly contributions. The range of presented papers covers topics in Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian archaeology, theory of interpretation in archaeology and art history, interdisciplinary history, historical linguistics, art history, and comparative mythology. The volume opens with an extensive interview given by Gregory Areshian, in which Gregory outlines the pathways of his academic career, archaeological discoveries, different intellectual quests, and the organic connections between research questions that he explored across different social sciences and the humanities, stressing the importance of periodizations in interdisciplinary history as well as his views on holism and interdisciplinary studies. Table of Contents Foreword – by Pavel S. Avetisyan and Yervand H. Grekyan Of Pathways Taken and Not Taken: between Archaeology, History, and Interdisciplinarity - An Interview with Gregory E. Areshian Conducted by Levon H. Abrahamian and Emily Uyeda Kantrim Menhirs of Harzhis – by Hayk Avetisyan, Artak Gnuni, Arsen Bobokhyan and Henrik Danielyan The Kurgans of Gegharot: A Preliminary Report on the Results of the 2013-14 Excavations of Project ArAGATS – by Ruben S. Badalyan and Adam T. Smith Capacity Marks on Depata from Troy – by Arsen Bobokhyan Iconology in the Light of Archaeological Reason – by Giorgio Buccellati Doctrinal Union or Agreement to Disagree? Armenians and Syrians at the Synod of Manazkert (726 CE) – by S. Peter Cowe A Note on the ‘Great King of Armenia’ – by Touraj Daryaee The Study of East Asian Art History in Europe: Some Observations on Its Early Stages – by Lothar Von Falkenhausen The Settlement Size and Population Estimation of the Urartian Cities – by Yervand H. Grekyan Achaemenids and the Southern Caucasus – by Michael Herles Quarlini – Teišebaini – Kavakert – Karmir Blur – by Simon Hmayakyan, Mariam Melkonyan and Armine Zohrabyan Wine in Libation Ritual – by Suren Hobosyan Two Types of Nominal Compounds in Archaic Indo-European Anatolian Names and Words in the Old Assyrian Documents from Asia Minor (XX-XVIII c. BC) – by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov New Insight into the Agglomerated Houses/Agglomerated cells in Armenia: Arteni, Aragats Massif – by Irena Kalantaryan, Bérengère Perello and Christine Chataigner Political Economy of Carthage: The Carthaginian Constitution as Reconstructed through Archaeology, Historical Texts, and Epigraphy – by Brett Kaufman Excavations of the Cave Settlement of Ani – by Hamazasp Khachatryan The Emergence of Burial Mound Ritual in the Caucasus, the 5th-4th Millennia BC (Common Aspects of the Problem) – by Sergei N. Korenevskiy A Note on Hittite Toponymy: the Case of Pittiyariga – by Aram Kosyan Fortified Kura Arax Settlements in North-Western Iran – by Ernst Stephan Kroll From Aramus to Sevaberd, on the Gegham Mountain Route – by Walter Kuntner, Sandra Heinsch-Kuntner and Hayk Avetisyan Royal Capital: Gagik I Bagratuni and the Church of Gagkašēn – by Christina Maranci Notes on Anatolian Loanwords in Armenian – by Hrach Martirosyan Main Results of the Excavations at the Fortress of Getap in 2009-2014 – by Husik Melkonyan, Inesa Karapetyan and Hasmik Margaryan ‘Proto-Iliad’ in the Context of Indo-European Mythology – by Armen Petrosyan The Sale and Lease of Vineyards in Media Atropatene – by Daniel T. Potts Greek and Anatolian Parallels of Palatalization – by Jaan Puhvel Notes on the Representation of the Face of Cyrus the Great – by David Stronach Probable Reasons for the Occurrence of Comparable Abstract and Figurative Designs in the Art Inventories of Different Ancient Cultures Since Prehistory – by Jak Yakar The Early Bronze Age Shrine of Mets Sepasar – by Larisa Yeganyan The Agriculture of Western Syunik, Armenia in the Light of Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Data (Preliminary Study on the Economy of Early Yervandid Settlements) – by Mkrtich H. Zardaryan and Roman Hovsepyan