This article concerns how Armenian communities throughout the 1st millennium A.D. reinterpreted and redeployed cuneiform inscriptions originally carved in the Iron Age as meaningful traces of the local past. It focuses on the deliberate re-use by early Armenian Christians of Iron-Age stelae bearing Urartian cuneiform inscriptions in the region around Lake Van. Scholars have noted such re-use in passing since the 19th century A.D., but there has been no concerted effort to collect or interpret relevant evidence holistically. The article distinguishes several distinct trends in Armenian engagements with cuneiform (and hieroglyphic) inscriptions in their native territories over the course of the 1st millennium A.D. Combining literary and archaeological evidence, it contextualizes cases of re-use as clashes of historical consciousness, expressed via material culture, in dynamic situations of colonial contact and religious conversion.

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亚美尼亚古代晚期和中世纪早期的乌拉尔图石碑

本文涉及亚美尼亚社区在整个第一个千年中如何广告重新解释和重新部署了最初在铁器时代雕刻的楔形文字铭文，作为当地历史的有意义的痕迹。它的重点是早期亚美尼亚基督徒对凡湖周围地区刻有乌拉尔图楔形文字的铁器时代石碑的有意再利用。自 19 世纪以来，学者们就注意到了这种重复使用的情况广告，但尚未做出一致努力来全面收集或解释相关证据。本文区分了第一个千年中亚美尼亚人在其祖国领土上使用楔形文字（和象形文字）铭文的几种独特趋势广告它将文学和考古证据结合起来，将再利用的案例背景化为历史意识的冲突，通过物质文化、殖民接触和宗教皈依的动态情境来表达。