Gvakharia, V. A. Dictionary-Symphony of the Urartian Language (Slovar-simfoniya urartskogo yazyka), 1963. In Russian and Urartian.

В. А. Гвахария.
Словарь — симфония урартского языка.
Академия наук Грузинской ССР, Институт востоковедения.
Москва: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963.
499 с. ; 27 см. Тираж 500 экз. Твердый владельческий переплет.
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V. A. Gvakharia.
Dictionary-Symphony of the Urartian Language (Slovar-simfoniya urartskogo yazyka).
Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Institute of Oriental Studies.
Moscow: Publishing House of Oriental Literature, 1963.
499 pp. ; 27 cm. Edition of 500 copies. Hardcover (library or private binding).

This 1963 monumental work by the distinguished scholar Vazha Gvakharia is a cornerstone of Urartology and Ancient Near Eastern studies. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the Urartian language—the extinct language of the Kingdom of Urartu (Ararat)—including the arrangement of its entire known vocabulary in the form of a "symphony" or complete concordance of cuneiform inscriptions. As a vital primary source, this volume documents every occurrence of words within the corpus of Urartian texts known at the time of publication, providing invaluable context for morphological and semantic analysis.  Published under the auspices of the Georgian Institute of Oriental Studies, Gvakharia’s work remains an indispensable tool for deciphering the structural nuances of this non-Indo-European, non-Semitic ergative language. Given the extremely specialized nature of the research and its limited print run of only 500 copies, this large-format edition is a significant bibliographical rarity. It is an essential asset for hittitologists, assyriologists, and researchers focused on the historical linguistics of the Caucasus and the Ancient Near East.