Garegin Tumanyan - New interpretation of cultural belonging and dating of a group of ancient sepulchres in Armenia
13 Pages | 150-163 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-150 | Revceived on: 2024-05-15 | Reviewed on: 2024-06-28 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-07-10
Published in: 2024 N 2 (226) / Archaeology
From the discussion of the issues related to cultural belonging and dating of a number of sepulchres attributed to Early Iron Age of Armenia, one could conclude that these issues need urgent solution. The widespread practice of looking for parallels of separate items when dating sepulchral complex is unpromising. In the best scenario, this approach can enable to identify the time interval of the formation of the given sepulchral complex, but cannot reveal its cultural belonging.
Keywordssepulchre Cimmerian Early Iron Age culture parallels simultaneous dating warrior rider related material bit.
Vardan Petrosyan - Hushing sounds of the Old Armenian (Diachronic and a chronic aspects)
13 Pages | 228-241 | DOI: Doi.10.52853/01350536-2021.3-228 | Revceived on: 2021-07-21 | Reviewed on: 2021-09-21 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-11-12
Published in: 2021 N 3 (218) / Discussions
The definition of main prototypes of the Armenian voiceless husing շ(š) does not present any difficulty: these are the I.-E. *s and *k՛(ṷ). The quantitative ratio of the proto-forms, as well as typological parallels of շ (š) with non relative languages confirms this conclusion.
Keywordssibilants Iranian loan words voiced hushing sounds Old Slavonic Slavic studies proto-language Latvian Avesta Caucasian languages typological parallels diachronic aspect achronic aspect.