Вестник древней истории 2 (233)

Contents

• Yakobson Vadimir A. - Igor Michailovich Diakonoff (Scientific Biography) - 5–10
• Pavlovskaya A. I. - I.M. Diakonoff and “Journal of Ancient History” - 11–17
• Abdullaev Kazim - On the Identification of the Enthroned Figures in Kushan Coroplastic Art (On the Material of Payenkurgan Fortress in Northern Bactria) - 18–30
• Amirov Sh. N. - The Topography of Archaeological Monuments in the Khabut Steppes of Northern Mesopotamia (Vth-IInd mill. BC) - 30–46
• Antonova Elena V. - The Serpent and the Eagle in the Glyptics of the Oxus Civilization - 46–52
• Afanasyeva V. K. - The Tale of Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld in the Light of Sumerian Cosmogony - 53–63
• Bayun Lilia S. - Divination in the Ancient Near East. II. Hittite MUŠ oracles - 63–72
• Bolshakov Andrei O. - Ancient Egyptian Royal Sculpture and “Horus Name” - 73–87
• Bukharin Mikhail D. - Early Hellenistic Horographers: Megasthenes, Hekataios of Abdera and Berossos - 88–100
• Vigasin Alexei A. - Dialogue with the Death - 100–106
• Vinogradov А. К. - Back to an Old Source (A Find in the Archive of Griffith Institute, Oxford) - 107–116
• Gadjiev М. S. - Recent Finds and the Topogfraphy of Middle Persian Inscriptions - 116–129
• Grenet F. - A New Hypothesis on the Date of the Khalchaian Reliefs - 130–135
• Dandamayev Magomed A. - Arabians in Mesopotamia During the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Period - 135–139
• Dandamaeva Mariam M. - It is Better Once to See… (Monuments of Near Eastern Art as a Conjectural Source of Some Greek Mythological and Philosophical Topics) - 140–150
• Yemelyanov Vladimir V. - On the Original Meaning of Sumerian ME (Images of Weltanschauung and the Methods of Their Study) - 150–174
• Ivantchik Askold I. - The History of the Achaemenid Power: Source and New Interpretations (À propos publications: Briant P. Histoire de L’Empire perse. De Cyrus à Alexandre. Paris, 1996; idem. Recherches récents sur l”empire achéménide. Topoi. Orient-Occident, Suppl. 1. Lyon, 1997) - 174–198
• Kakovkin Alexander Ya. - A Little Known Object of Coptic Metal Plastics from the Hermitage Collection - 199–202
• Kaneva Irina T. - Indirect Speech in Sumerian - 203–207
• Kozyreva Nelli V. - An Archive from the CLW Area of the City of Ur - 208–213
• Litvinsky Boris A. - The Bactrian Temple of Oxus and the East Iranian Hellenism - 213–221
• Medvedskaya Inna N. - The Scythian Invasion of Palestine - 221–229
• Kogan Leonid E., Militarev Alexander Yu. - On Some Agrobiological Notions in the Ancient Near East (The Terms Denoting Tree-Pollinating and Grafting in the Language of the Semites) - 229–236
• Perlov B. I. - The Cuneiform Collection of the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum - 236–247
• Sariandini Viktor I. - The Palace of Northern Gonur - 248–259
• Smirin V. М. - Slave’s Liberty and Free Man’s Slavery (Some Aspects of the History of Roman Civic Community) - 260–267
• Khodza Elena N. - Two Terracotta Figurines from the State Hermitage Collection - 268–283
• Jankovskaya N. B. - “Oasis Tadmor”: on the Problem of Research on the History of Writing - 284–289
• Steblin-Kamensky Ivan M. - The Gates of Zarathushtra. Introduction, Translation from the Avestian and Commentary by I.M. Steblin-Kamensky (St.-Petersburg) - 290–300