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Urartian Irrigation Works.

Anatolian Studies, 1972
If there is one aspect of life in the ancient Near East which may be taken as a common factor between lands and cities so far removed in space and time as Sumer and Urartu, Eridu and Van, it is irrigation. This is a subject crying out for more research, especially on the ground.
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An Urartian Ozymandias

The Biblical Archaeologist, 1995
Bien qu'il n'ait inspire aucune legende, et ait laisse un maigre souvenir dans les sources ecrites anciennes, Rusa II (2nd quart du 7e s. av. J.-C.), l'un des derniers grands souverains du royaume d'Ourartou, a sans doute ete a l'origine de quelques-uns des grands projets de construction du royaume.
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Meher Kapısı inscription (Urartian text)

2022
The Meher Kapısı is a monumental rock carved niche located four kilometres north east of Van Kalesi, the site of the Urartian capital of Tušpa. Inside the niche a cuneiform text was carved, which defines the Urartian pantheon and sets ritual instructions. The text contains a long list of deities, starting with Ḫaldi.
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Urartian ale «says »

Revue hittite et asianique, 1939
Blake Frank B. Urartian ale «says ». In: Revue hittite et asianique, 5e année, fascicule 35-36, 1939. pp. 109-110.
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Two Hurro-Urartian Lexical Parallels

Altorientalische Forschungen, 2022
AbstractRelated words in the Hurrian and Urartian vocabularies are numerous due to the affinity of these two languages. To the list of common roots and terms we can now add two more examples:iradini“bird” andpurulini“divination(?)”.
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Urartian Metal Artifacts: An Archaeological Review

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2006
AbstractMetal artifacts constitute the main component of the cultural material known from the ancient state of Urartu. The great majority of these artifacts available to archaeologists for cultural analysis derives from plundered sites, which proveniences, whether from sites in modern Turkey, Armenia, or northwestern Iran, are unknown.
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An Urartian Bracelet from Gilan

Iran and the Caucasus, 2004
Within the last few years considerable progress is being observed in the study of political history, economy, culture, and the religion of the Urartian Empire (9-7th cc. B. C.). This is in particular stipulated by the fact that we are becoming more and more informed with regard to the civilisation of Urartu; large-scale excavations are being deployed ...
Yervand Grekian, Tork Dalalian
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Urartian Sibilants in Armenian

Historical Linguistics, 2011
It is long known that Urartian has left certain loan words in Classical Armenian. Recent linguistic evidence points to the likelihood that the Urartians came westward from Central Asia after the Hurrians, passing south of the Caspian Sea but north of the area influenced by the Assyrians, and settled in the Sub-Caucasus; later, driven out in the mid ...
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Bīsotūn, ‘Urartians’ and ‘Armenians’ of the Achaemenid Texts, and the Origins of the Exonyms Armina and Arminiya

Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 2019
Gregory E. Areshian
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Four Urartian Bulls' Heads

Anatolian Studies, 1956
In this article we bring together for the first time four bronze bulls' heads of impressive size and weight which seem to form a series. One is in the collection of Mr. J. J. Emery, of Cincinnati, another is in the Fogg Museum, a third is in Cleveland (Plates XVII–XVIII), and the fourth (Plate XIX) is in the Louvre. In 1954 Mr.
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