Shoghakat Devrikyan - Works of art depicting the “Meeting” of Gregory the Illuminator and Pope Sylvester I

14 Pages | 135-149 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-135 |

Revceived on: 2024-05-30 | Reviewed on: 2024-05-29 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-07-10

Published in: 2024 N 2 (226) / Arts

The legend of the meeting of the King Tiridates III of Armenia, St. Gregory the Illuminator, Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Pope Sylvester I is an integral part of Armenian–Roman history. Over the centuries, it has been enriched with various details, sanctified, and completed during the Cilician period in the «Letter of Love and Concord». This event, often the subject of doubt and extensive studies, has also been depicted in various works of art, including miniatures, wall paintings, engravings, and icon paintings.

KeywordsGregory the Illuminator Pope Sylvester I King Tiridates III Emperor Constantine I "Letter of Love and Concord" adoption of Christianity Church San Gregorio Armeno in Naples Rome Isfahan.

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Artak Maghalyan - On the issue of Grigor Hasan-Jalalyan’s apostasy, Catholicos of Gandzasar

19 Pages | 50-69 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.1-50 |

Revceived on: 2023-12-08 | Reviewed on: 2023-12-27 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-03-22

Published in: 2024 N 1 (225) / History

Abstract / Keywords

In the Gavazanagirq (chronological list of Catholicoi) from Alwanq (Gandzasar) and in various chronicles, there are references to Catholicos Grigor Hasan-Jalalyan, who renounced Christianity in the 16th century. For a long time, this information remained a mystery. However, after the publication (in 1970) of the memorial records of the Gospel written by hieromonk Abraham, kept under number 33 in the library of the Amenaprkich Monastery of Nor Jugha, it became known that Catholicos Grigor was forcibly converted to Islam in 1574 by Safavid Shah Tahmasp I (1524–1576).

KeywordsArtsakh Gandzasar Grigor Hasan-Jalalyan Catholicos Gavazanagirq (chronological list of Catholicoi) Hishatakaran (memorial record) Safavid Iran Shah Tahmasp I forced conversion assimilation policy.

Argishti Vardanyan - Armenian-Caucasian Albanian alliance against Persian rule (In the middle of the V century)

17 Pages | 35-52 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.2-35 |

Revceived on: 2022-12-15 | Reviewed on: 2023-01-19 | Accepted for printing on: 2023-06-19

Published in: 2023 N 2 (223) / History

Abstract / Keywords

Along with the imposition of the marzpan system (administrative unit) on the regional countries, the Persian royal court, from the middle of the 5th century, made an attempt to eradicate Christianity and establish Zoroastrianism in Armenia, Caucasian Albania and Virk. But, as expected, this caused a confrontation between the above mentioned countries, which culminated in an uprising. Trying to force them to submit to their will, the Persian army led by Sebukht captured Caucasian Albania in the early autumn of 450, but in October of the same year, Armenian army under the command of sparapet (supreme commander of the armed forces) Vardan Mamikonyan dealt a crushing blow to the numerically superior Persian army and liberated Caucasian Albania.

KeywordsArmenia Transcaucasia Caucasian Albania Sasanian Persia Vardan Mamikonyan Vasak Syuni Yeghishe Ghazar Parpetsi battle of Khaghagh Kura River Sebukht the Huns.

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Mher Navoyan - Differentiation problems in the folk-professional branch of Armenian traditional music-poetic art

18 Pages | 170-188 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.1-166 |

Revceived on: 2021-09-16 | Reviewed on: 2021-12-23 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-01-17

Published in: 2022 N 1 (219) / Articles, reports

Abstract / Keywords

In traditional Armenian music-poetry, the manifestations of Gusan and Ashugh art very often are not differentiated. The lack of clarity on this issue is a consequence of disregarding the main characteristics of these expressions of traditional art, along with the lack of research on Gusan art in general. The absence of a clear distinction between the folk and folk-professional (secular-professional) branches of Armenian traditional musical-poetical art is also important, due to its relation to the differentiation between Gusan and Ashugh art, representing two areas of folk-professional branch.

Keywords folk– professional secular professional Gu san Ashu gh “Ergqkՙ cՙcՙocՙ ev paru cՙ” “Hagnergutyun” (rhapsody ῥαψῳδία) horeia (χορεία).

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Henrik Khachatryan - The nakharar (princely) domаins of Armenian marzpanate (V-VI cc. AD) (in Russ.)

15 Pages | 47-62 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.2-47 |

Revceived on: 2022-02-28 | Reviewed on: 2022-03-09 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-05-31

Published in: 2022 N 2 (220) / History

Abstract / Keywords

In 428 AD, the Persian king Vram V Gor (420/421-438/439 AD), by the agreement of most of Armenian nakharars, abolished the Arsacid kingdom (66-428 AD) in Armenia. After that, up to the 630s AD, Armenia turns into a Persian border administrative unit – marzpanate. Armenia, although had the status of marzpanate, it still retained internal autonomy in the basis of the nakharar system. The Armenian princes-nakharars remained the hereditary landowners of their territories. The nakhararutyun (principality) was ruled by the nakharar, who was the hereditary landowner of his territory and the nahapet or tanuter of his clan. In the Arshakuni and later in marzpanian Armenia, the lands were owned by three groups 1) the king (after 428 AD – the Sasanian king), 2) the church, 3) the nakharars. The principalities of the marzpanian period was quantitatively inferior to the royal one.

KeywordsArmenian marzpanate nakharars Sasanians nakharar domains Mamikonyans Bagratunis Syunis Artsakh “Gahnamak”.

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Astghik Israelian - The votive offerings of the 18th-20th cc. of the History Museum of Armenia (in Russ.)

13 Pages | 111-124 |

Revceived on: 2021-02-12 | Reviewed on: 2021-02-19 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-03-12

Published in: 2021 N 1 (216) / Articles, reports

Abstract / Keywords

The ethnographic collections kept in the History Museum of Armenia contain items that shed light on certain features of the people’s traditions, beliefs and rituals. The museum has samples of votive offerings to saints which differ from the usual oblations. These are covenant gifts, which people took to sanctuaries (church, monastery, chapel, khachkar, sacred tree, a house where there was a sacred corner) to seek help from the saints, to fulfill their desires.

Keywordsvow offering sanctuary healing gratitude iron human figurine parts of body torc cross.

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Gayane Kocharyan, Gayane Kocharyan - The eternal sacrament of Dvin fortress-sanctuary

11 Pages | 180-191 |

Revceived on: 2021-02-25 | Reviewed on: 2021-03-02 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-03-29

Published in: 2021 N 1 (216) / Articles, reports

Abstract / Keywords

The comparative analysis of the results of investigations based on archaeological and written sources, as well as the new data of mythology and ethnography enable to reveal the cultic sacrament of fortress-sanctuary Dvin. Near the main route Vagharshapat–Artashat the multilayer traditional sanctuary Dvin and the oracle Yerazamuyn (according to Agatangeghos – the historian of the 5th c., – god Tir was worshipped here at the 3rd century BC) were interconnected as a complete cultic complex. In this sanctuary during the Classical period in the actual process of syncretization the cult of the guardian deities of light was manifested in the image of the luminous triad Tir-Apollo-Mithra.

Keywordsmultilayer site Dvin traditional sanctuary world-view perceptions religious syncretization luminous triad Tir-Apollo-Mithra St. Gregory the Illuminator eternal sacrament cult of light.

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Murad Ohanyan - The heirs to the orders of administration of the Achaemenids

27 Pages | 238-265 |

Revceived on: 2021-01-28 | Reviewed on: 2021-02-12 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-05-17

Published in: 2021 N 2 (217) / Discussions

Abstract / Keywords

The administration orders and structures of the Parthian and Sasanian powers are almost exactly repeating the models of Achaemenid governance. Various evidence and facts have been preserved about that, especially about the Sasanian power. According to them, this power was divided into five administrative-territorial units with “Center + 4 peripheral regions” principle.

KeywordsAchaemenid power Parthian power Sasanian power Darius I Ardashir I Shapur I Elam Kul-e Farah Sumer Urnanshe Greater Armenia Tigran the Great Bundahišn “Armenian geography” spahbed pitiaxae.

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