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Magnetic Prospection in the Eastern Lower City of Artashat-Artaxata in the Ararat Plain of Armenia [PDF]

Electrum, 2022
In March of 2021, the Berlin-based company cmp continued geophysical prospection works at the ancient city of Artashat-Artaxata (Ararat Province, Armenia).
Achim Lichtenberger, Cornelius Meyer, Torben Schreiber, Mkrtich H. Zardaryan   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Exploring mudbrick architecture and its re-use in Artaxata, Armenia, during the 1st millennium BC. A multidisciplinary study of earthen architecture in the Armenian Highlands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
Mudbrick constructions are extremely common in ancient western Asia, including the 1st millennium structures of the southern Caucasus and Armenian highlands.
Marta Lorenzon, Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria, Elisabeth Holmqvist, Myrsini Gkouma, Luc Vrydaghs, Achim Lichtenberger, Torben Schreiber, Mkrtich Zardaryan   +7 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Archives of Artaxata: Archival Practice in the Capital of Ancient Armenia

Electrum, 2021
This article examines the seal impressions from Artaxata discovered in 1979/80 during excavations carried out by the Armenian Academy of Sciences on Hills V and VIII.
Torben Schreiber
doaj   +13 more sources

In search of the camp of the IV Scythian legion near ancient Artaxata: research at Pokr Vedi 2015–2018 [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020
During the last years of Emperor Trajan’s reign, the Legio IV Scythica was stationed in the capital of Armenia at that time, Artaxata. It had made its way there within the scope of the Roman campaign against the Parthians.
Oskar Kubrak, Paulina Kubrak, Mkrtich H. Zardaryan   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Geophysical Prospection of the South-Western Quarter of the Hellenistic Capital Artaxata in the Ararat Plain (Lusarat, Ararat Province, Armenia): The South-West Quarter, City Walls and an Early Christian Church

Open Archaeology
This study presents the findings of the 2024 geophysical prospection campaign conducted within the south-western Lower City of the Hellenistic capital Artaxata, situated in the Ararat plain, Armenia.
Gabriel Christiyani, Gyulamiryan Hayk A., Lichtenberger Achim, Meyer Cornelius, Schreiber Torben, Zardaryan Mkrtich H.   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

First Results and Perspectives of a New Archaeological Project in the Armenian Capital Artaxata: From Artashes-Artaxias I to Roman Imperialism

Electrum, 2021
The paper deals with the first results of the Armenian-German Artaxata Project which was initiated in 2018. The city of Artaxata was founded in the 2nd century BC as the capital of the Artaxiad kingdom.
Achim Lichtenberger, Torben Schreiber, Mkrtich H. Zardaryan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Provincia Armenia" in the light of the epigraphic evidence [PDF]

, 2021
One very prominent context of the Pre-Christian history of Armenia of course lies with its relations with the great neighbouring empires of Parthia and Rome.
Speidel, Michael Alexander
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The “Seal of Rodogune” from Parthian Nisa [PDF]

, 2022
The name of Rodogune was not applied only to the well known statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene from Parthian Nisa, but also to a seal impressed on a sealing from the Nisa Square House.
Invernizzi, Antonio
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Römische Imperiumsträger als Nachfolger attalidischer Administration [PDF]

, 2015
Im Artikel werden die Grundlinien römischer Herrschat in der jungen Provinz Asia aufgezeigt, und zwar im Rahmen der Bedingungen, die der römischen Herrschat gesetzt waren.
Dreyer, Boris
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Armenia in Ptolemy’s Geography (ca. AD 150) : a “Parody” of his work? Some corrections and suggestions [PDF]

, 2021
Ptolemyʾs Geographike Hyphegesis (Introduction to Geography) (ca. AD 150) consists of a huge and invaluable stock of topographical information. More than 6,000 toponyms are even defined by coordinates.
Geus, Klaus
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