SEALS AND SEALING IN BIA/URARTU: THE INSCRIBED SEALS.

This paper is intended as the first of a series of studies aimed at a reclassification and re-evaluation of Urartian glyptic. In this specific contribution we have chosen to firstly analyse exclusively that group of seal impressions that have short cuneiform inscriptions attributable to the royal and palatine sphere of Urartu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]