By God's Grace : Ancient Anatolian Studies presented to Aram Kosyan on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

This volume honours Professor Aram Kosyan at the occasion of his 65th birthday and his academic career spanning over four decades. The twenty-eight essays by his colleagues from the international scientific community who contributed to this volume focus mostly on Bronze and Iron Age cultures of Anatolia and the Armenian Highlands, offering papers on history and archaeology, beliefs and religions of the Hittites, Luwians, and other ancient societies of these regions. A large group of papers deals with linguistics, onomastics, and writing culture, including textual studies of primary sources, Cuneiform Hittite and Luwian Hieroglyphic inscriptions in particular, as well as papers on ancient trade relations and modern trade in counterfeit antiquities. CONTENTS 6 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 14 EDITORIAL 18 FOREWORD 20 THE SEARCH FOR KURUNI AND KOIRANOS IN THE PANTHEON OF IRON AGE CILICIA 22 MORE LOANWORDS IN LATE LUWIAN 40 THE LEOPARD IN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ARMENIA AND ITS HITTITE PARALLELS 52 HITTITE GALAKTAR “OPIUM (POPPY)”? 90 SU UN VINO DI MEONIA DAI TROPPI E INCERTI NOMI 108 ZUR GERICHTSBARKEIT DES KÖNIGSGERICHTES BEI DEN HETHITERN 116 “HITTITES” IN URARTU. THE ONOMASTIC EVIDENCE 122 ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE WORSHIP OF DEER AND THE SUN IN ANCIENT ANATOLIA AND ARMENIA 136 THE LUWIAN (?) BURIALS AT NOR ARMAVIR 156 TWO SEAL-IMPRESSED BULLAE WITH CUNEIFORM AND LINEAR INSCRIPTIONS FROM ÇAVUŞTEPE FORTRESS – A COMPARISON WITH LUWIAN SIGNS 170 IRON FOR COPPER: A NOTE ON METAL TRADE AT THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE 186 A NEW URARTIAN PITHOS FRAGMENT FROM THE VAN MUSEUM WITH A STAMP-CYLINDER SEAL IMPRESSION: WINGED CREATURES, ANIMALS AND HIEROGLYPHIC SIGNS 192 REPLICATING THE LYDIAN TREASURE FROM A TURKISH PERSPECTIVE 200 DER WOLF UND DIE HETHITER 216 A NOTE ON THE ARMENIAN WORD VAṘEM “TO BURN, INFLAME, INSPIRIT” 246 AMBASSADOR, DOCTOR AND REGENT FAMED IN BABYLON: OBSERVATIONS ON THE HIEROGLYPHIC-LUWIAN LOGOGRAM FOR “BABYLON” AND THE ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER OF YARRIS OF KARKEMISH 252 BIAINILI: THE EARLIEST PEOPLE IN THE EAST OF VAN LAKE 274 A FESTIVAL FOR THE STORM-GOD OF ḪIŠŠAŠḪAPA (CTH 637) 280 ARMA-PILAKKU: A HYBRID ANTHROPONYM IN ANATOLIAN HIEROGLYPHIC 302 ANTIENT ARBOREAL POETIC METONYMY 306 UN MUGAWAR LOUVITE POUR LE DIEU DE L’ORAGE DE ZIPPALANDA 310 ANNÄHERUNGEN AN ‚HARTAPUS‘ 322 PROGRESSIVE FUNCTION OF SOME HITTITE PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTIONS 348 (DEUS)ma-ru-ti-ka-sa pu-ti-ti-sa ‒ MUSINGS ONA HIEROGLYPHIC LUWIAN PHRASE 358 THE HITTITE QUOTATION PARTICLE -waAND ITS ALLOMORPH -war- 368 SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN HITTITE CUNEIFORM TEXTS 372 ALCUNE OSSERVAZIONI SUL RITUALE ITTITA CTH 442 382