Tsereteli, G. The Urartean Monuments in the Georgian Museum, Tbilisi (Sakartvelos muzeumis urartuli dzeglebi). 1939. In Georgian, Russian, and English, with Urartian cuneiform texts.

წერეთელი, გიორგი. საქართველოს მუზეუმის ურარტული ძეგლები / გამოსცა გიორგი წერეთელმა ; სსრკ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის საქართველოს ფილიალი, ნიკო მარის სახელობის ენის, ისტორიისა და მატერიალური კულტურის ინსტიტუტი. გამოცემა პირველი.
თბილისი : საქართველოს მეცნიერებათა აკადემია, 1939. 78 გვერდი, [5] გვერდი, XXXII ჩართული ფურცელი ტაბულებით ; 30 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 500 ც.
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Tsereteli, George. The Urartean Monuments in the Georgian Museum, Tbilisi / edited by George Tsereteli ; Georgian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, N. Marr Institute of Languages, History and Material Culture. First edition.
Tbilisi : Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Georgian Branch, 1939. 78 pp., [5] pp., XXXII inserted plates ; 30 cm.
Publisher's cloth boards with blind-stamped rosette and border. Print run of 500 copies.
Boards good: wear to edges and corners. Text block very good: leaves toned, all plates complete and clean, text without defect.

A scarce and important early Soviet epigraphic corpus, the foundational scholarly publication of the Urartian antiquities held in the State Museum of Georgia, edited by the Georgian orientalist and Semitist George Tsereteli (1904-1973), one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Near Eastern languages of the Soviet Caucasus, later an academician and founder of the Georgian school of Semitic and Oriental studies. Issued in 1939 by the Georgian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences through the N. Marr Institute of Languages, History and Material Culture, the volume presents the Urartian cuneiform inscriptions and material monuments (including stelae fragments, bronzes, and a millstone of the Urartian epoch) preserved in Tbilisi, with a trilingual apparatus in Georgian, Russian, and English, transcription of the cuneiform texts, indexes, and thirty-two plates combining hand-copied cuneiform, phototype reproductions, and photographic illustration. Urartu, the Iron Age kingdom centered on Lake Van whose territory extended into the southern Caucasus, is of central importance to the ancient history of both Armenia and Georgia, and this corpus remains a key reference for the study of Urartian epigraphy and the archaeology of the region. With a print run of only 500 copies, the volume is genuinely scarce, particularly outside institutional collections.