Grant Number:

2006-RC-007

 

Amount of Grant:

$4,955.00

 

Name of Applicant:

Dr. Inesa Karapetyan

 

Title:

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography,
National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

 

Description of Project:

The aim of the Armavir project is to investigate the site as a cultural
center from the end of the fourth millennium BC until the end of the
first millennium BC.

 

Anticipated Results:

The excavations at Armavir will expose the architectural character of
two types of temples and, with the help of the archaeological materials
expected to be found at the site (cultic ceramics, statuettes, alters with
bones of sacrificial animals, etc.) allow archaeologists to reconstruct the
rites and rituals of the Urartian period.

 

Time Required to Implement: October 1 - 31, 2006

 

Results Achieved: See Final Report