A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set. Группа авторов

the basis of Assyrian and indigenous cuneiform records, and a synthetic description of architecture and other aspects of Urartian civilization.

      7 Salvini, M., Wegner, I. (2015). Einführung in die urartäische Sprache. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Introduction to the Urartian language with some text examples in translation and grammatical analysis.

      8 Wartke, R.‐B. (1990). Toprakkale: Untersuchungen zu den Metallobjekten im Vorderasiatischen Museum zu Berlin (Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des alten Orients 22). Berlin: Akademie‐Verlag. A complete analysis of the archaeological material (first of all bronzes) purchased and excavated by C.F. Lehmann‐Haupt in Van at the end of the 19th century during the Armenian Expedition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

      9 Wartke, R.‐B. (1993). Urartu: das Reich am Ararat (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt 59). Mainz: von Zabern. A well‐illustrated presentation of the extant monuments of the Urartian sites in Turkey and Armenia and of the archaeological objects kept in the Museums of Berlin and Jerewan.

      10 Zimansky, P.E. (1985). Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of Chicago. An original approach to the Urartian historiography, basing on an analysis of the geographic environment of the Urartian territory and an interpretation of the structure of the state organization.

      11 Zimansky, P.E. (1998). Ancient Ararat: A Handbook of Urartian Studies. New York: Caravan Books Delmar. A bibliographical survey of the Urartological literature presented in different chapters about history, philology, archaeological reports. An useful guide even to the most rare titles in different languages (Armenian, English, Georgian, German, Italian, Turkish).

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      1 1 Cf. also the PN aldi‐nāṣir “Haldi is protector”, Baker 2000, p. 442; Salvini 2018.