ORIENTAL STUDIES IN ARMENIA VOLUME 3 Արևելագիտությունը Հայաստանում, հատոր 3

CONTENTS The Outstanding Orientalist of Armenia ........................................... In the author of the “History of Armenia I found my constant companion . Intellectual and scholar ................................................................... Main chronolgy of Gagik Sarkisyan’s life and scientific activities ……….. Chronological list of Gagik Sargsyan's studies .................................. ARTICLES BOBOKHYAN ARSEN Evidence of Khorenatsi towards the sacred landscape of Paghat and the problem of vishapakars .......................................................... GREKYAN ERVAND Population losses of the Armenian Highland in the Period of Urartian campaigns ........................................................................................ KHANZADYAN MARIAM About social mechanisms of the genesis of early states …………………… KHACHIKYAN MARGARIT An Attempt at Restoring the Hurro-Urartian Protolanguage …………… KHORIKYAN HOVHANNES Principle of Administrative Division of Achaemenid Persia ………………… HAKOBYAN ALEKSAN Again on the problem of the location of Avarayr field in Aryaz province … HASMIK HMAYAKYAN The hittite-hattic-luwian substrate of ancient armenian culture …………… MELIKYAN ARTHUR On the Sassanian crown princes’ enthronement origin and significance in Armenia …………………………………………………………………………… TSAKANYAN RUSLAN The “House of Torgom” in written sources …………………………………... PILIPOSYAN ASHOT Zorats Karer or Karahunj, Archaeological Monument or fictional observatory? ……………………………………………………………………….. KOSYAN ARAM Integrational Processes in the Euphratian Contacting zone in the II-I millenniums B.C. ………………………………………………………………….. ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................... 8 9 12 13 16 18 32 52 69 85 91 101 127 137 161 181 200 213

ORIENTAL STUDIES IN ARMENIA VOLUME 3 Արևելագիտությունը Հայաստանում, հատոր 3 | Page 8