Roberto Dan

Fonctions au sein de la Societas Anatolica

• Membre actif

Parcours académique

• PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome, awarded 2 July 2012. Dissertation: “Tra l’Eufrate e l’Arasse. Ricostruzione del paesaggio insediativo del Regno di Urartu”.

• • MA degree in Humanities, archaeological curriculum, Sapienza University of Rome, 5 July 2006, 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: “La dimensione territoriale del regno di Urartu. Analisi delle fonti scritte, dei dati dell’architettura e dei modelli del comportamento socio-economico”.

• • Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professor, sector 10/N1, Ancient Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African Cultures, awarded 22 August 2018.

• • Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professor, sector 10/N3, Central and East Asian Cultures, awarded 12 November 2020.

• • Registered in the Italian national list of professional archaeologists, Level 1, no. 13906 (since 2024).

Activités scientifiques

Books

1) Tra l’Eufrate e l’Arasse. Ricostruzione del paesaggio insediativo del regno di Biainili/Urartu, Tesi di Dottorato, Roma, 2012.

2) From the Armenian Highland to Iran. A Study on the Relations between the Kingdom of Urartu and the Achaemenid Empire, Serie Orientale Roma Nuova Serie, Vol. 4, Roma, 2015.

3) A study on the toponyms of the Kingdom of Bia/Urartu, Serie Orientale Roma Nuova Serie, Vol. 19, Roma, 2020.

4) Studies on the Architecture and Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire. Dynamics of interaction and transmission between center and periphery, Serie Orientale Roma 35, Roma, 2023.

Edited books

Corpus dei Testi Urartei Vol. I-III, Documenta Asiana VIII/1-3, Roma, 2008.

Corpus dei Testi Urartei Vol. IV, Documenta Asiana IX, Roma, 2012.

Avetisyan, P.E., Dan, R., Grekyan, Y., Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2019.

Baldi, M., Dan, R., Delle Donne, M., Lucarini, G., Mutri, G., Archaeology of Food. New Data from the International Missions in Africa and Asia, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Archaeology of Food, Serie Orientale Roma Nuova Serie 17, Roma, 2019.

Dan, R., Francia, R., Trémouille, M.C., Studia Hethitica, Hurritica et Urartaica 1, Serie Orientale Roma Nuova Serie 33, Roma (co-edited con Francia, R., Trémouille, M.C.), 2022.

Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 2024.

Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A., The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 2024.

Ferdinandi, S., Bobokhyan, A., Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Gasparyan, B., Avetisyan, P., Babajanyan, A., Dieci anni di attività archeologiche IAE NAS RA – ISMEO in Armenia (2013-2022), Roma, 2025.

Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 2025.

Articles (2009-2026)

2009

1) Dan, R., Il controllo urarteo della valle di Gürpınar, Akkadica 130/1, 87-102.

2) Dan, R., Alcune considerazioni sul tempio susi di Karmir-blur, Bollettino della Unione Storia ed Arte 4, 77-82.

2010

3) Dan, R., Basilica di Santa Sofia, Istanbul, Turchia, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 2010, 12.

4) Dan, R., Van Kalesi, Turchia, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 26.

5) Dan, R., I giardini pensili di Babilonia, Iraq, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 42.

6) Dan, R., Angkor, Cambogia, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 60.

7) Dan, R., Gabii, Italia, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 78.

8) Dan, R., Alhambra, Granada, Spagna, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 2010, p. 96.

9) Dan, R., Tempio di Apollo a Bassae, Andritsena, Grecia, in Ippolito, A.M., L’ArchiNatura, Franco Angeli, Roma, 112.

10) Dan, R., The Archaeological and Geographical Landscape of Urartu, in Matthiae, P., Pinnock, F., Nigro, L., Marchetti, N. (eds.), Acts of 6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 6), Vol. 3, 2010, pp. 331-340.

11) Dan, R., Zernaki Tepe, una città ippodamea nella terra di Urartu, Bollettino della Unione Storia ed Arte 5, 81-92.

12) Dan, R., Ricerche sui siti urartei della provincia di Van e dintorni, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 52, 49-97.

13) Dan, R., An Hypothesis of Reconstruction of the Susi Temple at Karmir-blur, AJNES 5/2, Festschrift in Honor of Nicolay Harutyunyan in occasion of his 90th birthday, 2010, pp. 44-52.

2011

14) Dan, R., La Farina, R., Arin-berd: una fortezza dell’Età del Ferro nella valle dell’Arasse, Bollettino della Unione Storia ed Arte 6, 227-239.

15) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Le faretre e i turcassi in bronzo nella produzione toreutica urartea, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 53, 13-53.

16) Biscione, R., Dan, R., Dimensional and Geographical Distribution of the Urartian Fortifications in the Republic of Armenia, AJNES/Aramazd VI/2, 104-120.

17) Dan, R., Una probabile fondazione di Argišti I, re di Urartu, sul corso del Murat Su (Eufrate Orientale), con un addendum di Mirjo Salvini, La Parola del Passato 66/381, 431-441.

2012

18) Dan, R., Nails in the Wall. The sikkatu in Urartian toreutic production, in Basello, G.B., Rossi, A. (eds.), “Territorial System and Ideology in the Achaemenid State: Persepolis and its Settlement”, Dariosh Studies II, Napoli, 301-311.

19) Dan, R., La Farina, R., Ricerche su alcuni siti dell’Armenia pre-classica, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 53, 249-262.

20) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., La Farina, R., Petrosyan, A., Raccidi, M., The First Season of the Kotayk Survey Project: Preliminary Report, AJNES/Aramazd VII/2, 28-35.

21) Badalyan, M., Grekyan, Y., Dan, R., Zakyan, A., An Unpublished Inscribed Brick of Aššur-nasir-apli II from the Museum of Erebuni, AJNES/Aramazd 7/2, 49-53.

22) Dan, R., From Ṭušpa to Miliṭia. Further considerations on the Westward expansion of the Kingdom of Urartu, AJNES/Aramazd VII/2, 54-83.

2013

23) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Urartian Bronze Helmets, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, Volume 19, Issue 2, 277-313.

2014

24) Dan, R., Le opere idrauliche del regno di Urartu, in Pizzimenti, S., Romano, L., (eds.), Šime ummiānka. Studi in onore di Paolo Matthiae in occasione del suo 75° compleanno offerti dall’ultima generazione di allievi, Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale XVI, 13-37.

25) Dan, R., Neri, G., In War Against Urme: Some Considerations Regarding the Westward Expansion of the Kingdom of Urartu, Studies in Caucasian Archaeology II, 115-137.

26) Biscione, R., Dan, R., Ranking and Geographical-Functional Distribution of Urartian Fortification in Turkey, in Özfirat, A. (ed.), Veli Sevin’e Armağan. Arkeolojiyle Geçen Bir Yaşam İçin Yazılar - SCRIPTA - Essays in Honour of Veli Sevin. A Life Immersed in Archaeology, 121-136.

27) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Caucasian, Iranian and Urartian Bronze Bells, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 20, 67-104.

28) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Metal Horse Bits from Urartian Sites, Aramazd 8/1-2, 2014, pp. 36-47.

29) Dan, R., Inside the Empire: Some Remarks on the Urartian and Achaemenid Presence in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, Iran & the Caucasus 18/4, 327-344.

30) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Очерки о кавказских и урартских бронзовых колокольчиках, Middle East IX-X, 174-191.

31) Dan, R., A defensive system of the IX-VIII centuries BC: the ring of fortresses around Van Kalesi (Ṭušpa), in Piliposyan, A. (ed.), B.B. Piotrovskij and Archaeology. Collected articles dedicated to the memory of the outstanding urartologist, archaeologist and orientalist Boris Piotrovskij, Yerevan, 161-169.

32) Dan, R., Una camera rupestre presso Yabalı e la fortezza di Amik, sulla costa orientale del lago Van, Res Antiquae XI, 71-80.

33) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., The armenian-italian excavation in Kotayk. Results of the 2013 campaign and planned future activities, International Conference Cultural Heritage Preservation in Occasion of Toros Toromanyan’s 150th Anniversary, 107-112.

2015

34) Dan, R., Some remarks on Urartian rusticated masonry, Metsamor the Chronicle of Fifty Years of Excavations, 141-150.

35) Dan, R., Между озером Урмия и Каспийским морем: восточная экспансия Урарту, Stratum Plus 3, 33-43.

36) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Babajanyan, A., The Kotayk Survey Project (KSP): Preliminary Report on 2014 Fieldwork Activity, AJNES/Aramazd 9/1, 58-68.

37) Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Petrosyan, A., Keheyan, Y., Testimonianze archeologiche della produzione del vino nell’antica Armenia, Res Antiquae 12, 1-22.

38) Dan, R., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Vitolo, P., Un sito archeologico Sasanide nella regione del Mazandaran, Iran, Bollettino della Unione Storia ed Arte 10, 151-162.

39) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., The Main Results of the 2013-2015 campaigns of Newly discovered fortress of Solak 1, Proceedings of 14th International Conference of Young Scientists 29-31 October 2015, 22-23.

2016

40) Dan, R., A short note on an unusual artefact which may constitute a link between Urartu and Etruria, Iran & the Caucasus 20/1, 124-137.

41) Dan, R., Vorratsgefäße (pithos) - In Urartu. I. Philologisch. II. Archäologisch. 1. Archaeological context. - 2. Materials and production. - 3. Sizes and decorations, Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Bd. XIV, Lfg. 7/8, 597-598.

42) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Колчаны урартского царства, Rossijskaja archeologija 2016/3, 73-83.

43) Badalyan, M., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Odzaberdi 2014-2015t’t’. peghumneri nakhnakan ardyunk’nery (hamarrot aknark), in Hayastani hnamardabanut’yan yev hnazhoghovrdagrut’yan harts’yer, Mijazgayin gitazhoghov nvirvats Vani peghumneri 100-amyakin («Metsamor» patmahnagitakan argelots’-t’angaran, noyemberi 3-4), Yerevan, 31-34.

44) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Girik Tepe: an Urartian Mud Brick Palace near Patnos, Turkey, Res Antiquae 13, 89-108.

45) Dan, R., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Kija Kerchal: an ancient shelter in Savadkooh Province, Mazandaran, Iran, Res Antiquae 13, 81-88.

46) Dan, R., Circles in stone: Urartian decorative inlay stonework, AJNES/Aramazd 9/2, 55-66.

47) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Gli oggetti di ornamento in Armenia dalla Preistoria all'antica Età del Ferro, in Negroni Catacchio, N. (ed.), Preistoria e protostoria in Etruria, atti del dodicesimo incontro di studi. Ornarsi per comunicare con gli uomini e con gli Dei. Gli oggetti di ornamento come status symbol, amuleti, richiesta di protezione. Ricerche e scavi, 407-420.

48) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., La fortezza di Körzüt. Un sito Urarteo sulla costa orientale del lago Van, Turchia, Bollettino Unione Storia ed Arte 11, 127-140.

2017

49) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Dan, R., Moradi, G., Vitolo P., Abdzadeh Pirsaraei, M., A Safavid caravanserai in Gadūk, Firūzkūh, Iran, in The History of Architecture and Urbanism in Iran IV, Babolsar, 1-16.

50) Dan, R., Linking lowlands among the mountains: the Urartian ‘road stations’, Studies in Caucasian Archaeology 3, 84-112.

51) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., The Kotayk Survey Project: Preliminary Report on 2015 Fieldwork Activities, Annali Sezione Orientale 77/1-2, 294-317.

52) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., The Kotayk Survey Project (KSP): Preliminary Report on 2016 Fieldworks Activities, in Metsamor Readings 1, 149-162.

53) Dan, R., Herles, M., From the Gate of Ḫaldi to the ‘Module’: A Study of the Urartian Architectural ‘Module’ and the Oshakan Fortress, Akkadica 138/2, 107-152.

54) Dan, R., A New Interpretation of the ‘External Portico’ of Arin-berd/Erebuni, Armenia, Ash Sharq 1/2, 211-223.

55) Khan Mohammadi, B., Mohammadi, K., Dan, R., Two new rock-cut tombs in the Bārāndūz Valley, Iran, Iran & the Caucasus 21.4, 345-361.

56) Dan, R., The gate and temple of Ḫaldi in Ašotakert/Yeşilalıç and the evolution of Urartian cultic complexes, AJNES/Aramazd 11/1-2, 161-185.

57) Dan, R., Some remarks on the Urartian blind windows of Çavuştepe, AJNES/Aramazd 11/1-2, 206-212.

58) Haji Mohammadi, K., Khan Mohammadi, B., Dan, R., Qal’eh Takht/Nanas. A fortress and rock-cut chamber in the Lake Orumiyeh Basin, Iran, Res Antiquae 14, 53-68.

59) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., La Farina, R., Petrosyan, A., Raccidi, M., L’attività archeologica italiana dell’ISMEO in Armenia, in Ferrari, A., Pupulin, E., Ruffilli, M., Tomelleri, V. (eds.), Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale Ricerche 2017 (Eurasiatica 7), 39-58.

60) Dan, R., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Petrosyan, A., Through the mountains up to Caspian Sea: some remarks on bronze pendants from Gilan region, Iran, Iranica Antiqua 52, 197-204.

61) Dan, R., Il sito di Kavuncu in Turchia orientale e il sistema difensivo della capitale di Bia/Urartu, Bollettino della Unione Storia ed Arte 12, 189-198.

2018

62) Cifarelli, M., Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Copper-alloy belts at Hasanlu, Iran: A case study in hybridisation and heteroglossia in material culture, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 28/4, 539-563.

63) Avetisyan, P., Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Axes, Labyrinths and Astral Symbols: Bronze Pendants and Pins from the Armenian Highlands, Ancient West & East 17, 27-63.

64) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Un’introduzione allo sviluppo delle asce in Armenia, negli Atti del Tredicesimo Incontro di Studi Valentano (VT) – Pitigliano (GR) – Manciano (GR), 9-11 Settembre 2016 Armarsi per comunicare con gli uomini e con gli Dei. Le armi come strumenti di attacco e di difesa, status symbol e dono agli Dei, 165-180.

65) Dan, R., Some reflexions on the ‘Urartian roads’ and the Urartian road system, in Gökçe, B., Pınarcık, P. (eds.), Eski Yakındoğu’da Ulaşım Üzerine Yazılar/Articles on Transportation in the Ancient Near East, Ankara, 355-367.

66) Khan Mohammadi, B., Haji Mohammadi, K., Dan, R., Kal Kharabe: A recently discovered fortress and rock-cut chamber in the Orumiyeh Basin, Iran, Iranica Antiqua 53, 55-76.

67) Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Vitolo, P., Petrosyan, A., Saccone, T., Nahapetyan, S., Adigyozalyan, A., Moradi, G., Zecchi, C., The rock-cut archaeological complex of Yelpin-1, Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia, AJNES/Aramazd XII/2, 59-82.

68) Keheyan, Y. Badalyan, M., Dan, R., Some analyses of pigments from Erebuni, AJNES/Aramazd XII/2, 83-96.

69) Dan, R., An Urartian stele base from Beydamarı, Turkey, AJNES/Aramazd XII/2, 97-104.

70) Zohrabian, A., Gasparyan, B., Dan, R., A Sasanian coin of Khosrow I and an Abbasid coin of Al-Manṣur from the Areni-1 Cave, Armenia, AJNES/Aramazd XII/2, 182-186.

71) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., La produzione del vino nello stato di Bia/Urartu, Bollettino Unione Storia ed Arte 13, 139-151.

2019

72) Dan, R., The Urartian Site of Garibin Tepe/Alaköy, Van, Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus 23, 1-16.

73) Castelluccia, M., Dan, R., Some Remarks on Urartian Horse Harnesses, in D’Andrea, M., Micale, M.G., Nadali, D., Pizzimenti S., Vacca, A. (eds.), Pearls of the Past. Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honour of Frances Pinnock, marru 8, Münster, 187-201.

74) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Solak 1. Una fortezza urartea nella valle del Hrazdan, Armenia, in Avetisyan, P., Dan, R., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Oxford, 391-400.

75) Badalyan, M., Basello, G.P., Dan, R., The Elamite Tablets from Armavir-Blur (Armenia): A Re-Examination*, in Avetisyan, P., Dan, R., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 34-45.

76) Trémouille, M.C., Dan, R., Haji Mohammadi, K., Bodaghi, E., A New Fragment of an Inscription of Rusa, Son of Argišti, from the susi Temple of Bastam, Iran, in Avetisyan, P., Dan, R., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 501-510.

77) Dan R., Keheyan, Y., Hovhannisyan, N., Petrosyan, A., Atoyants, Y., Vitolo, P., Gasparyan, B., A New Painting Fragment from Erebuni and an Overview of Urartian Wall Paintings, in Avetisyan, P., Dan, R., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Oxford, 171-186.

78) Dan, R., Zernaki Tepe: an Artaxiad hippodamian city in Greater Armenia, AJNES/Aramazd XIII/1, 111-132.

79) Dan, R., Una guerra senza vincitori: considerazioni sulle relazioni tra l’Impero assiro e lo Stato di Bia/Urartu, in Graziani, S. (ed.), Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio. Catalogo della mostra (Napoli, 3 luglio-16 settembre 2019), 55-62.

80) Dan, R., Khan Mohammadi, B., Hajji Mohammadi, B., Recently discovered rock-cut chambers in Orumiyeh County, Iran, in Hassanzadeh, Y., Vahdati, A., Karimi, Z. (eds.), Proceedings of The International Conference on The Iron Age in Western Iran and Neighbouring Regions 2, Tehran and Sanandaj, 63-79.

81) Biscione, R., Dan, R., Ranking and Distribution of the Urartian Fortifications: a general view of the Urartian Territory, in Hassanzadeh, Y., Vahdati, A., Karimi, Z. (eds.), Proceedings of The International Conference on The Iron Age in Western Iran and Neighbouring Regions 2, Tehran and Sanandaj, 45-62.

82) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Castelluccia, M., Giura., From Urartu to “Media”, a reassessment of so-called “Post-Urartian” or “Median” pottery: 1. vases with two horned handles, in Genito, B., Maresca, G. (eds.), Ceramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon Near East, Iran and Central Asia, Napoli, 61-87.

83) Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Keomars Haji, M., Recently discovered archaeological sites in Dostan area, Salmas Region, Iran, Turkish Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 1, 83-94.

84) Haji Mohammadi, K., Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Two recently discovered subterranean rock-cut complexes in Qushchi, Iran, Res Antiquae 16, 95-108.

85) Trémouille, M.C., Dan, R., Between philology and archaeology. Some comments on Urartian Landscape Management, in Valentini, S., Guarducci, G. (eds), Between Syria and the Highlands. Studies in Honour of Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Roma, 378-387.

86) Dan, R., Delle Donne, M., Badalyan, M., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Vitolo, P., Moradi, G., Milanesi, C., Costantini, L., Production and Storage of Food Plants in Armenia during the Iron Age: the Evidence from Karmir-blur/Teišebai URU, Arin-berd/Erebuni and Solak-1, in Baldi, M., Dan, R., Delle Donne, M., Lucarini, G., Mutri, G. (eds.), Archaeology of Food. New Data from the International Missions in Africa and Asia, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Archaeology of Food, Serie Orientale Roma Nuova Serie 17, Roma, 141-164.

87) Dan, R., Between Urartian and Achaemenid Architectural Traditions: Considerations on the so-called “Urartian wall” of Artašat, Iranica Antiqua LIV, 1-16.

88) Dan, R., Solak 1: a Model of Predictive Archaeology/Armenia/Italy, in European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards Laureates 2019, 34-35.

89) Dan, R., Il ruolo dei simboli nella costruzione dello stato: il caso di Bia/Urartu, in Badalkhan, S., Basello, G.P., De Chiara, M. (eds.), Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi, Series Minor LXXXVII.1, Napoli, 227-253.

90) Dan, R., Licheli, V., Vitolo, P., Chogovadze, T., Cesaretti, A., Chilingarashvili, T., Abuli, un complesso fortificato nella regione di Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, Bollettino Unione Storia ed Arte 14, 125-135.

91) Dan, R., Costantini, L., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Espahabad Khorshid Cave, Mazandaran, Iran: Some Insights into Sasanian Period Buildings, Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies 9.1, 1-9.

2020

92) Gasparyan, B., Adler, D.S., Wilkinson, K.N., Nahapetyan, S., Egeland, C.P., Glauberman, P.J., Malinsky-Buller, A., Arakelyan, D., Arimura, M., Dan, R., Frahm, E., Haydosyan, H., Azizbekyan, H., Petrosyan A., Kandel, A.W., Study of the Stone Age in the Republic of Armenia (Part 1 – Lower Palaeolithic), in Kosyan, A., Avetisyan, P., Bobokhyan, A., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Aramazd X 1-2, Armenian Archaeology. Past experiences and new achievements, 1-60.

93) Gasparyan, B., Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Haydosyan, H., Adigyozalyan, A., Azizbekyan, H., Azatyan, K., Zecchi, C., Moradi, G., Saccone, T., Bonfanti, A.S., Dadfar, F., The Vayots Dzor Project (VDP): a preliminary overview of the first three years’ activities (2016-2018), in Kosyan, A., Avetisyan, P., Bobokhyan, A., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Aramazd X 1-2, Armenian Archaeology. Past experiences and new achievements, 143-183.

94) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Melikyan, V., Moradi, G., Zecchi, C., Saccone, T., The Kotayk Survey Project (KSP): an overview of the first six years of activities (2013-2018), in Kosyan, A., Avetisyan, P., Bobokhyan, A., Grekyan, Y. (eds.), Aramazd X 1-2, Armenian Archaeology. Past experiences and new achievements, 208-233.

95) Khanmohammadi, B., Haji Mohammadi, K., Dan, R., Kazim Khan: a fortress on the western side of the Lake Orumiyeh Basin, Iran, in Niknami, K.-A., Hozhabri, A. (ed.), Archaeology of Historical Period of Iran, 23-35.

96) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Dan, R., Moaerefi va barrasi sakhtar va karkarde memari ghar- ghaleh Kija Kerchal, Faslname tarikh va bastan shenasie Mazandaran 1.1, 102-111.

97) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Arimura, M., Cesaretti, A., Gasparyan, B., Lo sviluppo diacronico dei sistemi insediativi in Armenia, in Negroni Catacchio, N. (ed.), Archeologia dell’abitare Insediamenti e organizzazione sociale prima della città Dai monumenti ai comportamenti Vol. 1. Ricerche e scavi. Atti del Quattordicesimo Incontro di Studi Valentano (VT) – Pitigliano (GR) – Manciano (GR), 7-9 Settembre 2018, 471-489.

98) Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., A recently discovered site in Halaj, Mergavar Valley, Iran, Res Antiquae 17, 31-42.

99) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Zecchi, C., Some reflections on Urartian inscribed metal cylinders and uninscribed metal discs, in Gavagnin, K., Palermo, R. (eds.), Imperial Connections. Interactions and Expansion from Assyria to the Roman Period, Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine, 5–8 June 2017), vol. 2, West & East. Monografie 3, 59–70. Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste.

100) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., The “Mouthless People”: Some Remarks on the Shahr Yeri Statue-Stela Complex, Iran, Iran and the Caucasus 24.4, 347-357.

101) Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Garavand, A., A group of ‘giants’ houses’ recently discovered in Salmas Region, Iran, AJNES/Aramazd XIV/1-2, 80-96.

102) Dan, R., Once more on the so-called ‘Felstreppentunnel’ in the Armenian Highlands, AJNES/Aramazd XIV/1-2, 174-183.

103) Dan, R., Tille Höyük Level X. A ‘Median’ or Achaemenid Period Citadel in the Euphrates Valley?, Iranica Antiqua 55, 145-163.

104) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., A battle engraved in stone: considerations on the Harput and Pertek bas-reliefs, Oriens Antiquus 2, 29-42.

105) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Good Practices for Collaboration in the Identification, Study and Protection of Cultural Heritage: The Armenian - Italian Archaeological Expeditions in Kotayk and Vayots Dzor (Armenia), in Avagyan, A. (ed.), Cultural Heritage. Experience & Perspectives in International Context. Proceedings of the Rochemp Center International Conference 23rd – 24th of January 2020, Yerevan, 23-37.

106) Licheli, V., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Cesaretti, A., Chogovadze, T., Chilingarashvili, T., Continuity or Change? An Analysis of Fortified Church Complexes in Southern Georgia, Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region 12, 527-542.

107) Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., La nascita e lo sviluppo dei fenomeni di militarizzazione nell’Altopiano armeno e nel Caucaso Meridionale, Bollettino Unione Storia ed Arte 15, 183-193.

2021

108) Cesaretti, R., Dan, R., Tracing the Transmission of Power. An Analysis of Protohistoric Child Burials in the Tli Cemetery, Greater Caucasus, Ash-sharq 5.1 Bulletin of the Ancient Near East Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies, 38-57.

109) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., The beginning of Urartian archaeological research: the rock-cut tomb and bronze finds from Alişar/Verahram, Iran, Akkadica 142.1, 93-111.

110) Vahdati, A., Biscione, R., Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., Grave 12 at Chalow: The Burial of a Lady of the “Greater Khorasan Civilization”, Journal of Iranian National Museum Vol. 1.1, 45-64.

111) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Seeking Refuge in Mountain Fortresses and Temporary Shelters: Approaching the Militarization Processes in the Van, Sevan and Orumiyeh Basins, Ancient West & East 20, 1-19.

112) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Melikyan, V., Gasparro, O., Nahapetyan, S., Archaeological Investigations in Kotayk Region as Part of the Kotayk Survey Project (KSP). A Glance at a Selection of Fortresses (2013 – 2019), in Avetisyan, P., Bobokhyan, A. (eds), Archaeology of Armenia in Regional Context, Proceedings of the International Conference dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Held on July 9-11, 2019 in Yerevan, Yerevan, 135-153.

113) Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., From the Steppes to the Mountains. An Analysis of the Depiction of the Pastoralist Warrior-Chiefs on the Hakkari Statue-Stele, Anatolica XLVII, 121-145.

114) Naseri Someeh, H., Mirzaei, M., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., On the Border between Urartu and Mannea: Goyje Qalʽeh, an Iron Age Site in Northern Iran, Iran and the Caucasus 25, 321-333.

115) Petrosyan, A., Azizbekyan, H., Gasparyan, B., Dan, R., Bobokhyan, A., & Amiryan, M., Foregrounding Daily Data Collection on Archaeological Fieldwork, Advances in Archaeological Practice, 1-13.

116) Dan, R., Recent archaeological discoveries in the land of Bia/Urartu, Res Antiquae XVIII, 25-48.

117) Dan, R., Constructing identities in the Armenian Highlands: the creation and evolution of symbols of power in Bia/Urarṭu, in Di Nocera, G.M. (ed.), I mutevoli volti del potere. Essenza ed espressione del potere: Linguaggi, luoghi e spazi, funzioni, simboli e rappresentazioni, Viterbo, 129-139.

118) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Bonfanti, A.S., Arrows for Ḫaldi. Urartian Metal Barbed Arrowheads, Oriens Antiquus III, 11-24.

119) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Some remarks on the word LÚaṣuli in Urartian inscriptions, N.A.B.U. 2021/4, 263-264.

120) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., From Phrygia to Urartu. The Phrygian Belts Discovered in Toprakkale/Rusaḫinili Qilbani=kai and the Relations between Urartu and Phrygia, East & West n.s. 2(61) No. 1, 7-30.

121) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Local Trajectories in the Achaemenid Empire. Some remarks on the Ardabîl Ware pottery tradition, ARTA 2021.002, 1-15.

122) Khanmohammadi, B., Vitolo, P., Dan, R., Shah Tepe/Islam Tepe: an enigmatic site in the Miandoab Plain, Iran, Ancient Near Eastern Studies 58, 39-55.

123) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Bonfanti, A.S., Khanmohammadi, B., Some Thought on the Protohistoric Period in Dinkha Tepe, Iran, Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies 11.1, 1-8.

124) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus: an analysis of the belts from the Tli Burial Ground and their contexts (graves 40b, 215b, 425), Archäologischer Anzeiger 2021/2, 39-57.

125) Khanmohammadi, B., Bonfanti, A.S., Abbaszadeh, M., Dan, R., A metal belt in Orumiyeh Museum, Iran, AJNES/Aramazd XV/1-2, 163-170.

126) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Cesaretti, A., de Caro, T., Dan, R., Verso il grande arco. Uno studio sull’antica strada sasanide di Sartangeh, Mazandaran, Iran, Bollettino Unione Storia e Arte 16, 9-17.

2022

127) Dan, R., Licheli, V., Javakheti/Georgia. Tra nomadi e grandi imperi, Archeologia Viva 211, 40-51.

128) Gasparyan, B., Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vayots Dzor. Vino armeno sulla Via della Seta, Archeologia Viva 212, 20-31.

129) Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., From Plains to Mountains: Literary and Cultural Models between Mesopotamia and Urarṭu, in Ramazzotti, M. (ed.), The Historical and Cultural Memory of the Babylonian World. Collecting Fragments from the ‘Centre of the World’, ARATTA II, 85-101.

130) Khanmohammadi, B., Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., A New Decorated Bronze Belt from Orumiyeh Region, North-Western Iran, Iran 2022, 1-11.

131) Dan, R., Aznavurtepe/Kot Tepe: a 9th-8th Century BCE Urartian Fortress in the Patnos Plain, Turkey, in Dan, R., Francia, R., Trémouille, M.C. (eds.), Studia Hethitica, Hurritica et Urartaica 1, 37-73.

132) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Between Local Traditions and Assyria. New Perspectives on the So-called “Urartian” Belts, in Dan, R., Francia, R., Trémouille, M.C. (eds.), Studia Hethitica, Hurritica et Urartaica 1, 75-108.

133) Trémouille, M.C., A.S. Bonfanti, Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Is Bastam Fortress Rusai URU.TUR? A Recently Discovered Urartian Inscription in the Area of Bastam, Iran, in Dan, R., Francia, R., Trémouille, M.C. (eds.), Studia Hethitica, Hurritica et Urartaica 1, 231-248.

134) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Some remarks on the beheading iconography from the lands between the Taurus and Greater Caucasus, Ash Sharq 6, 64-74.

135) Licheli, V., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Chogovadze, T., Cesaretti, A., Chilingarashvili, T., Saccone, T., Gasparro, T., Cyclopean Fortresses, Royal Cities or Mountain Shelters? The Abuli and Shaori Complexes in Southern Georgia in the Light of Recent Archaeological Investigations, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 28, 148-176.

136) Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Iovino, M., Margaryan, H., Dan, R., Grotte come spazi rituali. Recenti scavi archeologici nelle grotte dell’Armenia, in Negroni Catacchio, N., Metta, C., Gallo, V., Aspesi, M. (eds.), Ipogei. La vita, la morte, i culti nei mondi sotterranei. Ricerche e scavi. Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria XV. Atti del Quindicesimo Incontro di Studi, Valentano (VT), 11-13 Settembre 2020, 51-71.

137) Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Vitolo, P., Aghaian, S., Petrosyan, A., Recenti studi sull’architettura rupestre nell’Altopiano Armeno: problematiche e prospettive di ricerca, in Negroni Catacchio, N., Metta, C., Gallo, V., Aspesi, M. (eds.), Ipogei. La vita, la morte, i culti nei mondi sotterranei. Ricerche e scavi. Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria XV. Atti del Quindicesimo Incontro di Studi, Valentano (VT), 11-13 Settembre 2020, 73-95.

138) Trémouille, M.C., Dan, R., Some Remarks on Changes in the Water Level of Lake Van, Turkey: an Evaluation of the Cartographical and Archaeological Evidence, East & West N.S. 3 (62) – NO. 1, JUNE 2022, 71-95.

139) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., A Reassessment of the Middle Bronze Age Cultures in the Lake Orūmīyeh Basin, Iran, Altorientalische Forschungen 49(2), 265-282.

140) Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Qal’eh Haidari/Khezerlu, a prehistoric, protohistoric and historical site in the Siyah Cheshmeh plain, north-western Iran, Res Antiquae 19, 189-212.

141) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Gasparyan, B., From the Ararat depression to Lake Sevan. An analysis of Urartian military roads in the territory of modern-day Armenia (Late 9th to mid 8th centuries BC), in Armenia Maritima. Archaeological Heritage of the Land Uduri-Etiuni, Yerevan, 302-315.

142) Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Aghaian, S., Recent investigations of rock-cut structures in Armenia, in Armenia Maritima. Archaeological Heritage of the Land Uduri-Etiuni, Yerevan, 316-328.

143) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., The Rise of Militarization in the Van, Sevan and Orumiyeh Basins: The Increase in Conflicts and the Birth of Military Architecture from Protohistory to the Emergence of the State, Ancient West & East 21, 1-35.

144) Dan, R., Review of A. Özfırat, Ş. Dönmez, M. Işıklı and M. Saba (eds.), Orta ve Doğu Anadolu Geç Demir Çağı: Post-Urartu, Med ve Akhaimenid Imparatorlukları/ Central and Eastern Anatolia Late Iron Age: Post-Urartu, Median and Achaemenid Empires, Tarihsel Arkeoloji Çalışmaları/Historical Archaeology Studies 1, Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2019, xviii+ 465 pp., illustrations. Paperback. ISBN 978-605-7673-18-3, Ancient West & East 21, 445-447.

145) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Cesaretti, A., Hadi Dastjerdi, Z., Petrosyan, A., Urartian Metal Arrowheads in Context. The Leaf-Shaped Arrowheads from the Solak-1/Varsak Excavation (Armenia) in the Frame of Urartian Archaeology, Mesopotamia LVII, 65-88.

146) Topal, D., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Ceremonial akinakes from Filipovka between the context, chronology and iconography, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 9.4, 134-148.

147) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A., Opium for the Urartian kings? Some considerations on an inscribed object from Karmir-blur (CTU B 8-28) and on the ašiḫusi building in Urartian architecture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies 59, 19-37.

148) Dan, R., Salaris, D., A study of protohistoric and historical settlement patterns in the Qara Żīāʾ-al-Dīn Plain, Iran, East & West 3 (62).2, 7-41.

149) Dan, R., Salaris, D., The Van plain during the Urartian period. A spatial analysis of fortified settlement patterns, Anatolica 48, 13-48.

150) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Dan, R., Khalili, M., Bavand Savadkoui, M., de Caro, T., Cesaretti, A., Rahe Bastani Sartangeh, Savadkooh, Mazandaran, Iran, Quarterly Journal of Mazandaran Vol. 3 N. 11, 54-61.

2023

151) Malekhzadeh, M., Naseri, R., Boroomandara, S., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Preliminary Report of the first Season of Excavation at the Achaemenid Period (Iron Age IV) Cemetery in Mersin, Semnan Province, Iran, Iran 2023, 1-15.

152) Dan, R., Bobokhyan, A., Gasparro, O., Gasparyan, B., Petrosyan, A., Salvini, M., The Archaeological Site of Garni, Armenia. Pre-Arsacid Archaeological Evidence and an Urartian Inscription of Argišti on a Vishap, in Grekyan, Y., Bobokhyan, A., Systemizing the Past, Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Oxford, 56-78.

153) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Gasparro, O., Gasparyan, B., Overlooking the River Hrazdan Valley: The Fortified Site of Tghit in the Tsaghkunyats Mountains, Kotayk Region, Armenia, in Grekyan, Y., Bobokhyan, A., Systemizing the Past, Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Oxford, 390-405.

154) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Recent investigations on the Early Bronze Age sites in the River Marmarik Valley as part of the Kotayk Survey Project, Fs Ruben Badalyan, AJNES/Aramazd XVI/1-2, 349-367.

155) Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Диахронический взгляд на зарождение милитаризации на Южном Кавказе, Stratum Plus 2023/2, 273-289.

156) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Bavand, A., Dan, R., The archaeological site of Taq Khane, Mazandaran, Proceedings of the Babolsar conference, 1268-1284.

157) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Vitolo, P., Aghaian, S., Petrosyan, A., From Urartu to the Orontids: Seven Years (2013-2019) of Armenian – Italian Excavations at the Site of Solak-1/Varsak (KSP016), Hrazdan River Valley, Armenia, in Marchetti, N., Cavaliere, F., Cirelli, E., D’Orazio, C., Giacosa, G., Guidetti, M., Mariani, E. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Proceedings of the 12th ICAANE 2021, Bologna, Wiesbaden, 177-189.

158) Gasparyan, B., Dan, R., Aghikyan, L., Vitolo, P., Aghaian, S., Adigyozalyan, A., Zecchi, C., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Preliminary Results of the Excavation of an Urartian Burial in Aghavnadzor, Vayots Dzor, Armenia, in Marchetti, N., Cavaliere, F., Cirelli, E., D’Orazio, C., Giacosa, G., Guidetti, M., Mariani, E. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Proceedings of the 12th ICAANE 2021, Bologna, Wiesbaden, 243-256.

159) Licheli, V., Dan, R., Chogovadze, T., Vitolo, P., Chilingarashvili, T., Cesaretti, A., The Samtskhe-Javakheti Project: Preliminary Results of the 2019 Georgian-Italian Archaeological Expedition in Southern Georgia, in Marchetti, N., Cavaliere, F., Cirelli, E., D’Orazio, C., Giacosa, G., Guidetti, M., Mariani, E. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Proceedings of the 12th ICAANE 2021, Bologna, Wiesbaden, 319-332.

160) Petrosyan, A., Cesaretti, A., Vitolo, P., Gasparyan, B., Gasparro, O., Dan, R., Kaghsi-2, Meghradzor-1 and Berdi Glukh: Three Recently Discovered Kura-Araxes Sites in the Kotayk Region, Armenia, in Marchetti, N., Cavaliere, F., Cirelli, E., D’Orazio, C., Giacosa, G., Guidetti, M., Mariani, E. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Proceedings of the 12th ICAANE 2021, Bologna, Wiesbaden, 475-485.

161) Cesaretti, A., Gravina, F., Dan, R., Down-the-line from the Persian Gulf to the Armenian Highlands. Archaeomalacology as a tool for the recognition of long-distance connections during the Middle Bronze Age, Ash-sharq 7, 107-120.

162) Dan, R., Khanmohammadi, B., Protecting the southern border and the road to Muṣaṣir with “Ḫaldi’s garrison”: Qalatgah, an Urartian and Achaemenid period archaeological complex in the Lake Orumiyeh Basin, Iran, East & West 4 (63).1, 85-118.

163) Khanmohammadi, B., Vitolo, P., Dan, R., On the road to Mannea. The archaeological sites of Taštepe, Iran, in Ferrari, A., Riccioni, S., Ruffilli, M., Spampinato, B. (eds.), L’arte armena e oltre. Nuovi contributi Studies in Armenian and Eastern Christian Art 2022, Eurasiatica 20, 167-200.

164) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Some Remarks on the Urartian toponym Dara(ni) and its possible identification with the site of Solak-1/Varsak in Kotayk Region, Armenia, Iran & the Caucasus 27, 231-248.

165) Dan, R., La Missione Archeologica nel Caucaso Meridionale, Monografie di Archeo, 42-43.

166) Keshavarz Divkolaee, M, Dan, R., Borje Dolkingeh, Didbane Savadkooh, Chahar Soghe Farhang 2023/2, 175-184.

167) Dan, R., Gasparro, O., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Un’analisi del riutilizzo delle epigrafi urartee in epoca medievale nell’Altopiano Armeno, Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale 59, 105-136.

168) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., A Never-ending story: The Process of Militarization in the Van, Sevan and Orumiyeh Basins from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian Period, Ancient West & East 22, 109-131.

169) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Assyrianizing elements in the Iron Age cultures of the Highlands. The decorated bronze bowl from the Yeghegnadzor hoard, Proceedings of the Museum of the History of Armenia 1 (11), 8-18, 265-266.

170) Dan, R., Vitolo, P., Il Naxijevan tra Urartu e gli Arsacidi: Una prospettiva archeologica su Oğlan Qala e gli altri siti dell’area, in Ferrari, A., Arslan, A. (eds.), Un genocidio culturale dei nostri giorni. Nakhichevan: la distruzione della cultura e della storia armena, Milano, 51-76.

171) Aqhdam, E.M., Sorkhabi, O., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Khanmohammadi, B., The walls in the shadow of the mountain. A recently discovered pre-Islamic site in Taragheh, Bukan, Iran, Res Antiquae XX, 123-142.

172) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., A new study of the bronze belts from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Akkadica 144, 171-186.

173) Dan, R., Hellenistic/Artaxiad remains in the Van fortress? Some thoughts on trench A6 excavated by the American expedition (1938-1939), Parthica 25, 85-101.

174) Dan, R., Licheli, V., Vitolo, P., Chogovadze, T., Cesaretti, A., Chilingarashvili, T., Sulla cima del vulcano. Un’analisi archeologica della fortezza-rifugio di Shaori in Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, Oriens Antiquus 5, 63-78.

175) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Preliminary remarks on a new study of the Urartian Royal Bowls in the History Museum of Armenia, Proceedings of the Museum of the History of Armenia 2 (12), 217-224.

176) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Salaris, D., Controlling the Plain. The Analysis of the Settlement Patterns of the Salmas Plain, Iran, from the Prehistoric to the Sasanian Periods, Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies 13.2, 35-56.

177) Cesaretti, R., Dan, R., A parade or a military clash? Some remarks on the iconography of the Stepanavan bronze belt, in Grekyan, R. (ed.), By God’s Grace. Ancient Anatolian Studies Presented to Aram Kosyan on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Ancient Near eastern Studies Supplement 61, 57-68.

178) Dan, R., Az tarighe koohha ta daryae khazar, nokati dar mordere avizhaye bronzi az mantaghe gilan, The Quarterly Journal of History and Archaeology of Mazandaran 4.12, 14-19.

179) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Drinking Like an Assyrian King. An Urartian Inscribed Royal Ribbed Bowl Property of Sarduri (I), Son of Lutipri, Journal Asiatique 311.2, 171-184.

180) Salaris, D., Dan, R., Exploring the archaeology and significance of Masjed-e Soleyman: a reassessment of the Elymaean terrace and its socio-cultural context in Southwestern Iran, in Escribano Martín, F., del Cerro Linares, C., Fernández Rodríguez, C., Borrego Gallardo, F.L. (eds.), Landscapes, Scriptures, Symbols and Architectures of Ancient Iran, ISIMU 26, 157-186.

181) Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., Il viaggio a Van di Friedrich Eduard Schulz e la scoperta di Urartu, in De Caprio, F., Filippone, E., Pifferi, S. (eds.), Raccontare i luoghi e la vita degli altri. Viaggiatori e viaggiatrici per le strade del mondo, Viterbo, 109-127.

182) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Seals and Sealing in Bia/Urartu: The inscribed seals, Iranica Antiqua LVIII, 53-96.

183) Biscione, R., Dan, R., Gasparyan, B., Hmayakyan, S., Petrosyan, A., Tra il lago Sevan e l’Arasse. Trent’anni di archeologia Urartologica italiana in Armenia (1994-2023), Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana serie 14, 6(2), 17-34.

184) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Licheli, V., ISMEO Activities 2023. Archaeological Mission to South Caucasus, East & West N.S. 4 (63), No. 2, 191.

185) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Trémouille, M.C., ISMEO Activities 2023. Lexicographic Projects. Urartian Italian, East & West N.S. 4 (63), No. 2, 231.

186) Dan, R., Review to Jean-Claude Voisin, L’Architecture militaire dans l’empire sassanide, Ciry-le-Noble 2023, 472 pp., 300 figs., ISBN 979-10-95034-31-5, East & West N.S. 4 (63), No. 2, 239-240.

187) Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., Cesaretti, A., Bonfanti, A.S., Cattle for the Gods. Some remarks on evidence concerning pastoralism in the kingdom of Bia/Urartu, VRBS. Studi sulla romanità antica e tardoantica II, 21-44.

2024

188) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Archeomeraviglie del Kotayk. Nei verdi altopiani d’Armenia, Archeologia Viva 224, 54-67.

189) Cesaretti, A., Topal, D., Dan, R., Иконография и хронология парадного акинака из кургана 4 могильника Филипповка-I, Stratum Plus 2024/3, 309-329.

190) Trémouille, M.C., Dan, R., An Unpublished Urartian Inscription from Aznavurtepe Fortress and Some Reflections on the Question of the Alarodians, in Bolatti Guzzo, N., Francia, R. (eds.), Between Philology and Archaeology Studies on Ancient Anatolia and the Near East Offered to Massimiliano Marazzi, Columbus, GA, 275-283.

191) Petrosyan, A., Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Gasparyan, B., Il fuoco tra le alte montagne. Una prospettiva diacronica sull’utilizzo del fuoco nell’antica Armenia, in Negroni Catacchio, N., Metta, C., Gallo, V., Aspesi, M. (eds.), Atti del Sedicesimo Incontro di Studi Valentano (VT), Saturnia (GR) 9-10-11 settembre 2022. Archeologia del Fuoco La vita, la morte, i culti: una presenza costante. Ricerche e scavi, Milano, 231-247.

192) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Looking for the Signs. An Unfinished Royal Bowl from Karmir-Blur of Minua, King of Urartu, Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie orientale 60, 65-74.

193) Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., From Ṭušpa to Apuni. An analysis of 8th century military campaigns at the northern border of Bia/Urartu, in Ramazzotti, M. (ed.), Costeggiando l’Eurasia/Coasting Eurasia Archeologia del paesaggio e geografia storica tra l’Oceano Indiano e il Mar Mediterraneo Primo congresso di Archeologia del paesaggio e Geografia storica del Vicino Oriente antico Sapienza Università di Roma, 5-8 Ottobre 2021, Atlante del Vicino Oriente antico, Opere collettanee 3, Roma, 251-263.

194) Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Introduction, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 9-12.

195) Dan, R., “Catalogue of Vessels” from 1477 to 3174, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 114-146.

196) Dan, R., Analysis of the decorative motifs, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 158-166.

197) Dan, R., Typology of the decorative motifs, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 167-176.

198) Dan, R., Attempted chrono-cultural subdivision of the material, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 177-178.

199) Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Conclusions: Looking to Mannea, in Naseri, R., Malekzadeh, M., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Mannea and beyond. A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran, Roma, 179-180.

200) Dan, R., Old Data and New Investigations. The Urartian and Orontid Fortress of Körzüt in Muradiye Plain, Turkey, Armeniaca 3, 9-40.

201) Dan, R., In the land of the Urartians and the Alarodians. The Kancıklı fortress and the Urartian presence in the Patnos plain, eastern Turkey, Res Antiquae 21, 127-158.

202) Dan, R., The Urartian State, in Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A. (eds.), The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 35-38.

203) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Urartian material culture, in Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A. (eds.), The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 60-63.

204) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A., Yeranyan, N., Chronological catalogue of the Urartian Royal Bowl, in Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A. (eds.), The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 73-191.

205) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., An Overlook of the most emblematic bowls, in Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A. (eds.), The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 193-205.

206) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Karmir-blur, The last Capital of Urartu?, in Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A.S., Poghosyan, A. (eds.), The Urartian Royal Bowls, Yerevan, 207-211.

207) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Three Fragmentary Inscribed Shields of Argišti, son of Minua, from Karmir-blur/Teišebai URU, Kept in the History Museum of Armenia, Mesopotamia LIX, 35-53.

208) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Introduzione al cuneiforme urarteo: segni, supporti e contesti, in Gargano, E. (ed.), Dal segno alla parola: lingue e decifrazioni dalle antiche scritture ad oggi, Monte Compatri, 197-216.

209) Bonfanti, A.S., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Between Urartu and Phrygia: an evaluation possible cultural relations between the two Iron Age Kingdoms, Phrygia between the East and the West, Ancient Near Eastern Studies 61, 291-308.

210) Dan, R., Licheli, V., Petrosyan, A., AMSC - Archaeological Mission to Southern Caucasus 2024 – ISMEO Activities, East and West (New Series), 5 (64) 2, 206.

211) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Trémouille, M.C., Dictionary Urartian-Italian, East and West (New Series), 5 (64) 2, 254.

212) Trémouille, M.-C.; Dan, R. 2024. Alcuni aspetti della religione nel regno di Bia/Urartu, VRBS. Studi sulla romanità antica e tardoantica, I, pp. 7-42.

213) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., «Az marzhā-ye sharqī tā markaz-e Urārtū: molāḥeẓātī dar mowred-e ḥalqe-hā-ye felezzī-ye katībe-dār-e be dast āmade az Anzāf-e ‘Olyā, Torkiye», Mīrāṯ-e Jonūb-e Gharbī-ye Āsiyā [Heritage of Southwest Asia] 1/2, 2024, Article 5, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.22034/hsaj.2026.561676.1029.

2025

214) Vahdati, A.A., Biscione, R., Dan, R., Trémouille, M.C., Grave 12 at Chalow: The Burial of a Young Lady of the “Greater Khorasan Civilization”, Iran, DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2025.2488251

215) Dan, R., Melikyan, V., Petrosyan, A., Benvenuti a Shamiram. Città della regina Semiramide, Archeologia Viva 231, 28-38.

216) Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., 2025. Approaching the Neolithization Processes in North-Western Iran, Iran and the Caucasus 29(2), 99-130.

217) Alessandri, L., Cardarelli, L., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Fiorillo, A., Sotgia, A., Cusimano, L., Della Sala, G.A., Gianni, V., Rossi, C., From pencil to pixel: assessing ceramatic 2.0 against manual and laser-aided techniques in archaeological pottery documentation, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Volume 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2025.e00435.

218) Abedini Iraqi, A., Dan, R., Keshavarz Divkolaee, M., Razeghi Mansour, H., Costantini, L., De Caro, T., Delle Donne, M., Il Grande Arco del Mazandaran. La Persia fra Sasanidi e Islam, Archeologia Viva 232, 20-31.

219) Dan, R., On The Western Edge Of Urartu Some Remarks on the Possible Identification of the Sard(a)ur(r)iana mentioned by Tiglath-Pileser III with Sarduriḫinili, Hayots’ patmut’yan hart’ser 1(30), 3-25.

220) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., I. Introduction, in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 1.

221) Dan, R., II. Study and interpretation of the archaeological context, in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 2-4.

222) Dan, R., III. Catalogue. YGZ02; YGZ03; YGZ07; YGZ10; YGZ11; YGZ14; YGZ18; YGZ21; YGZ29; YGZ37; YGZ43; YGZ45; YGZ52, in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 16-19, 25-33, 39-43, 86-111, 118-123, 128-129, 139, 142, 147, 156-157, 160-161, 170.

223) Dan, R., IV. Analysis. Situla (YGZ07); Phalerae (YGZ10-12); Belts (YGZ13-14); Bronze scabbard (YGZ18); Trilobate arrowhead (YGZ20); Sword (YGZ42), in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 184-191.

224) Dan, R., V. Insights into the objects in the Yeghegnadzor hoard. Insights on hoards in archaeological research, in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 197-199.

225) Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., VI. Conclusions, in Dan, R., Bonfanti, A.S., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period An Iron Age Metal Hoard from Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, Oxford, 200-202.

226) Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Some Urartian Swords in the Musieri/Mouçi Yéri Burial Ground, Lori Province, Armenia, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 31, 58-71.

227) Dan, R., The Archaeology of the South Caucasus: from the Protohistory to the Age of Empires, in Zhengzhong, W. (ed.), transl. by Fang Xiaotian, Wang Qian, Over the Karakorum, Past the Pamir – Eight lectures on Asian Archaeology, Peking University Press, Beijing, 284-349 (in Cinese).

228) Khanmohammadi, B., Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., A New Decorated Bronze Belt from Orumiyeh Region, North-Western Iran, Iran 63, 46-56.

229) Malekhzadeh, M., Naseri, R., Boroomandara, S., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R., Preliminary Report of the first Season of Excavation at the Achaemenid Period (Iron Age IV) Cemetery in Mersin, Semnan Province, Iran, Iran 63, 57-71.

230) Dan, R., Reviving Ara the Handsome. Exploring the Protohistoric, Urartian, Orontid, and Medieval Armenian Heritage of Aralesk/Kalecik in Van, Turkey, Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale 61, 191-236.

231) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Cesaretti, A., Fausti, E., Gasparro, O., Gasparyan, B., Controlling the north. The Bandivan fortress, a protohistoric (Kura-Araxes), Urartian, Orontid and medieval site in the Amasia Depression, Shirak Region, Armenia, Archaeological Research in Asia 44, 100657.

232) Dan, R., Rossi, A.V., 2025. Between Assyria and Urartu: A Study of the Political Entity of Mannaea Based on its Archaeology, Onomastic, and Toponomastic. In A. Thomas, P. Butterlin, A. Cavigneaux, N. Chevalier, and M. Salvini (eds), De Babylone aux routes d’Arabie. Portrait d’une orientaliste. Hommage à Béatrice André-Salvini (Archaeopress Archaeology), Oxford, 89-122.

233) Dan, R., 2025. Protecting the Capital. The Urartian Fortress of Çoravanis/Kavuncu and the Defence of Van/Ṭušpa, Proceedings of the History Museum of Armenia, № 1 (15), Yerevan, 178-189.

234) Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., Cesaretti, A., Local Elites on the Edge of the State. Some Remarks on the Late Urartian Burial of Geghovit, Altorientalische Forschungen 52/2, 137-161.

235) Dan, R., All’ombra delle fortezze. Sviluppo e composizione dei complessi abitativi del regno di Bia/Urartu (IX–VII secolo a.C.), Res Antiquae 22, 35–54.

236) Dan, R., From Rocks to Buildings. A Study of the T-shaped Motif in Urartian Architecture and Iconography, East and West (New Series), 6 (65), 1, 1-22.

237) Khanmohammadi, B., Bodaqi, E., Gasparro, O., Dan, R., At the foot of the Ararat: Dambat/Tambat. A medieval Armenian ‘city’ on the foothills of Lesser Mount Ararat, Maku county, Iran, ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 19, 255–274.

238) Khanmohammadi, B., Dan, R., Cesaretti, A., Preliminary results of the three seasons of salvage excavations in Soghanlu-1 (2018-2020), an Iron Age III and Parthian period site in Piranshahr district, Iran, Oriens Antiquus. Series Nova VII, 11–31.

239) Dan, R., Yeranyan, N., From Sippar to Sznak: The Urartian Bronze Lion of Syunik as Another Element of the Assyrian-Urartian Legacy, Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 31(2), 235–277.

240) Novikova, A., Bonfanti, A., Dan, R., A(nother) Urartian Royal Bowl Property of Sarduri (I), Son of Lutipri, from Karmir-blur, Stored in Hermitage Museum, Armeniaca 4, 7–24.

241) Bonfanti, A.S., Dan, R., Authority through writing: considerations on a seal from the Yeghegnadzor hoard, Proceedings of the History Museum of Armenia, 2(16), pp. 21–31.

242) Keshavarz Divoklakari, M., Bavand Savadkuhi, A., Dan, R., “Panāhgāh-hā-ye Sāsānī-ye Savādkūh, motāleʿāt-e meʿmārī va barresī-ye sāzeh-hā-ye tāq – sāzeh-hā-ye kuh-e Lākmar va Siyurḵel, Māzandarān,” Tārīkh va Bāstānšenāsī-ye Māzandarān (Do-faslnāmeh), no. 14–15 (Pāyīz–Zemestān 1402 / Bahār–Tābestān 1403 [2024–2025]), 134–151.

243) Dan, R., An Urartian or Orontid foundation? A reassessment of the archaeological data related to the 4establishment of the fortified complex at Yervandashat, Armenia, Parthica. Incontri di culture nel mondo antico 27, 9-24. https://doi.org/10.19272/202503501001

244) Dan, R., From an Administrative Centre to a Capital? An Analysis of the Role and Architecture of Karmir-Blur/Teišebai URU, the Last Stronghold of Bia/Urartu, Mesopotamia LX, 161–189.

245) Dan, R., Trémouille, M. C. 2025, “The Missing Corner: An Unpublished Inscription from the Körzüt Temple in Its Architectural Context”, in N. Bolatti Guzzo, M. Kapełuś, A. Kryszeń (a cura di), Ḫattušaš utnē išḫameški. Hittite and Other Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Piotr Taracha on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Warsaw, Agade, 43–64.

246) Dan, R., “The Hişet Fortress in (V)ostan/Gevaş: An Urartian, Orontid, Arsacid and Mediaeval Site on the Southern Shore of Lake Van.” Ancient West & East 24: 23–42. DOI: 10.2143/AWE.24.0.3295107.

247) Dan, R., “Urartakan karasnerə.” In M. Badalyan and A. Bobokhyan, eds., Karas. Patmut'yun ev zharangut'yun. Yerevan: Saromm Grounds, 38-43. ISBN 978-9939-1-2219-9.

248) De Caro, T., Keshavarz Divkolai, M., Badalyan, M., Dan, R. 2025. “Karmir Blurits gtnvats urartakan karasi bekori nakhnakan arkheometrik verlutsutyun.” In M. Badalyan and A. Bobokhyan, eds., Karas. Patmut'yun ev zharangut'yun. Yerevan: Saromm Grounds, 89-93. ISBN 978-9939-1-2219-9.

249) Cesaretti, A., Dan, R. 2025. “The Silver Cup of Karashamb: An Analytical Approach to the Study of Its Iconography.” Ancient Near Eastern Studies 62: 67–99. DOI: 10.2143/ANES.62.0.3295148.

2026

250) Bonfanti, A. S., Dan, R., Once Again on Bastam as the “Small City of Rusa”: Reassessing the Meaning and Function of URU.TUR in Urartian Epigraphy. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, online ahead of print (published online 26 January 2026). https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2025-0023

251) Salaris, D., Dan, R., Some Remarks on the Location of Seleucia-on-the-Hedyphon, Iran and the Caucasus 30(1), 7-28. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-03001008

252) Yeranyan, N., Bonfanti, A. S., Poghossyan, A., Dan, R., 2026, Ciotole reali. Vino e potere in Urartu, Archeologia Viva, 236 (marzo/aprile), 34-46.

253) Malekzadeh, M.; Naseri, R.; Fausti, E.; Cesaretti, A.; Dan, R., The Achaemenid cemetery of Mersin (Semnan Province, Iran): local identities and imperial connections on the northern Iranian plateau, Antiquity, published online, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10317

254) Dan, R., Chilingarashvili, T., Vitolo, P., Chogovadze, T., Cesaretti, A., Gasparro, O., Laurita, F., Bonfanti, A.S., Fausti, E., Galanti, F., Licheli, V., 2026. Layers of stone and ash: new perspectives from the Samtskhe-Javakheti archaeological project. Antiquity Antiquity Volume 100 Issue 412. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10331

255) Fausti, E., Garibian, N., Dan, R. 2026. “Jewellery Production and Metallurgical Connectivity on the Muş Plain: A Protohistoric Bivalve Stone Mould from Saint Karapet Monastery Area.” Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East 10: 11–26.

256) Dan, R., V. Melikyan, A. Cesaretti, O. Gasparro, P. Vitolo, F. Laurita, C. Zecchi, E. Fausti, S. Tomei, A. Petrosyan 2026. “Between Ararat and Aragats: Three Field Seasons (2022, 2024–2025) of Armenian-Italian Archaeological Research at Shamiram (Aragatsotn Province, Armenia).” In S. Ferdinandi, A. Babajanyan, Aruch. Rediscovering a Medieval Armenian Capital. Archaeological Campaigns 2022–2025, Roma: ISMEO / Scienze e Lettere, pp. 217–234. ISBN 978-88-66873-28-0.

257) Bonfanti, A.S., R. Dan, N. Yeranyan and A. Poghosyan 2026. Memory of the kings of Bia/Urartu: inscribed royal bowls from Western Asia. Antiquity, Project Gallery: 1–9. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10395.

258) Dan, R., Petrosyan, A., Vitolo, P., Cesaretti, A., Zecchi, C., Aghaian, S., Adigyozalyan, A., Gasparro, O., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Frolík, J., Světlík, I., Gasparyan, B. 2026. “An Early Bronze Age, Orontid and High Medieval site in the Arpa

River Basin: preliminary report on the first three seasons (2017–2019) of excavations at Mokhrot-1, Vayots Dzor, Armenia.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 74, 105985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105985

259) Dan, R. 2026. “An Unfinished Achaemenid Statue on Naxos? Reassessing the ‘Kouros of Apollonas’.” East and West, N.S. 7 (66), no. 1: 23–44.

260) Bonfanti A.S., Dan R., “Urartian Metalwork in Caucasian Graves? A Discussion on Terminology”, in M. Işıklı, R. Çavuşoğlu, H. Ocak, D. Demirtaş, A. Aslan & J. Bailey (eds), Urartu and Beyond: Improvement and Interaction in the Iron Age Highlands, ARAXES 5, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2026, pp. 479–490. DOI: 10.1484/M.ARAXES-EB.5.151067.

261) Petrosyan A., Vitolo P., Cesaretti A., Dan R. 2026, “The Urartian State and Local Communities. A Perspective from Solak-1/Varsak, Hrazdan River Valley, Armenia”, in M. Işıklı, R. Çavuşoğlu, D. Demirtaş, H. Ocak & A. Aslan (eds), Urartu and Beyond, Volume 1: Improvement and Interaction in the Iron Age Highlands, ARAXES 5, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, pp. 11–22. DOI: 10.1484/M.ARAXES-EB.5.151036.

Institutional Affiliations

• ISMEO – International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (2012–present).

• Sapienza University of Rome (2015–2018).

• University of Tuscia (2018–2023).

Research and Academic Appointments

• • Contract lecturer, “Art and Architecture of the Iron Age in Northern Mesopotamia”, Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Masaryk University, Brno (from 2016).

• • Research fellow, University of Tuscia, L-OR/05 Near Eastern Archaeology and Art History (2018–2019), project on Urartian toponyms.

• • Research fellow, University of Tuscia, L-OR/04 Anatolian Studies (2020–2022), project “Urartu and the Achaemenids: archaeological and textual comparisons”.

• • Research fellow, University of Tuscia, L-OR/04 Anatolian Studies (2022–2023), project on funerary architecture and traditions in Urartu and the Achaemenid Empire.

• • Research and editorial contracts with the Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino (2022 and 2023), including work on publications concerning Italian–Armenian archaeological research and Achaemenid architecture and archaeology.

Direction and Co-direction of Archaeological Projects

• • Kotayk Survey Project (Armenia), ISMEO: director/co-director since 2013, in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; fieldwork includes the site of Solak-1.

• • Excavations at the Urartian fortress of Tsovinar, Armenia: ISMEO co-director, 2014–2015.

• • Vayots Dzor Project (Armenia): director/co-director since 2016.

• • ISMEO Archaeological Mission in Georgia / Samtskhe-Javakheti Archaeological Project: director since 2017.

• • Archaeo-environmental Joint Project in Mazandaran (Iran): co-director (2023–present).

• • “The Archaeological Heritage of Syunik: Museums, Collections, and Community Engagement”: co-director (2025–2026), in collaboration with the History Museum of Armenia.

• • Archaeological Expedition in Moldova and the Black Sea Region: co-director since January 2025.

Editorial and Scientific Service

• • Member of the Scientific Board, The Quarterly Journal of History and Archaeology of Mazandaran (since 2020).

• • Member of the Scientific Board, Proceedings of the History Museum of Armenia (since 2022).

• • Member of the Scientific Board, Archaeology of Western Anatolia, Dokuz Eylül University (since 2025).

• • Member of the Scientific Board, Hayots’ patmut’yan hart’ser / Issues in Armenian History (since 2026).

• • Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Etiuni–Urartu: Journal of Ancient Armenian Studies (since 2026).

• • Member of the International Committee of the 15th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 15).

• • Member of the Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project, Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (since 2020).

Awards and Honours

• • European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards (2019), for the Solak-1 archaeological project in Armenia.

• • Award from the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia (2019) for contributions to the preservation and enhancement of Armenian cultural heritage.

• • International “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” Prize for Archaeology, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (2025).

• Selected Grants and Funded Research

• • Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies / NAASR Grant (2026): “Shamiram after the Urartian Conquest: Documentation of Iron Age Contexts”, USD 1,500.

• • Long-term archaeological projects in Armenia and Georgia supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching activity includes courses and seminars on Urartu, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian archaeology, and Iron Age Iran at institutions including the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Udine, and Masaryk University. He has also served as co-supervisor of MA and PhD theses and as supervisor of a postgraduate Master’s thesis.

Research Interests

Urartian archaeology and history; archaeology of the Southern Caucasus and Armenian Highlands; Iron Age Iran; Achaemenid archaeology; archaeology of Moldova and the Black Sea region; ancient landscapes, settlement systems, fortifications, architecture, historical geography, cultural heritage and public archaeology.

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