The Archives of Artaxata: Archival Practice in the Capital of Ancient Armenia

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Torben Schreiber
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Abstract

This article examines the seal impressions from Artaxata discovered in 1979/80 during excavations carried out by the Armenian Academy of Sciences on Hills V and VIII. As the archive on Hill VIII is quite small with only 20 to 25 seal impressions, the focus of this paper lies on the approximately 8,000 seal impressions found on hill V. The complex was dated to the period from 180 BC to 59 AD and it was assumed that it was a “private” archive or a kind of “chancellery.” An analysis of the finds in a wider context and the comparison with other archival complexes of the Hellenistic period as well as an examination of the characteristic features of “official” seals (size, image, shape, number of impressions) leads to the conclusion that it must have been a public archive, most probably it is the city archive of Artaxata.
阿尔塔克萨塔档案:古代亚美尼亚首都的档案实践
本文研究了1979/ 1980年亚美尼亚科学院在V山和VIII山进行挖掘时发现的阿尔塔克萨塔的印章印痕。由于八山上的档案相当小,只有20到25个印章,本文的重点是在五山上发现的大约8000个印章。该建筑群的年代从公元前180年到公元59年,被认为是一个“私人”档案或一种“总宰府”。在更广泛的背景下对这些发现进行分析,并与希腊化时期的其他档案综合体进行比较,以及对“官方”印章的特征(大小、图像、形状、印痕数量)进行检查,得出结论认为它一定是一个公共档案,最有可能是阿尔塔克萨塔的城市档案。
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Electrum
Electrum Arts and Humanities-Classics
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0.70
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期刊介绍: Electrum has been published since 1997 by the Department of Ancient History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as a collection of papers and monographs. In 2010 it starts as journal with one monographic issue per year. Journal publishes scholarly papers embodying studies in history and culture of Greece, Rome and Near East from the beginning of the First Millennium BC to about AD 400. Contributions are written in English, German, French and Italian. The journal publishes books reviews.
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