The Urartian Onomasticon: A Prosopographic Study

Grekyan, Yervand · 2024

Research on Urartian anthroponyms goes back to the turn of the nineteenth century, but scholars have concentrated almost entirely on royal and throne names, leaving ordinary personal names to scattered commentary. Grekyan attributes this partly to the limited Urartian linguistic corpus. He stresses that Urartu was a multiethnic state, deepened by large-scale deportations and planned resettlements; consequently not every name in Urartian inscriptions belongs to an Urartian, and not every Urartian bore a Hurro-Urartian name. The study assembles all available onomastic data connected to Urartu and presents it as a prosopography, widening the comparative base with second-millennium cuneiform and Hurrian material.

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