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eastern Asia Minor further enchances the value of many
of the inscriptions collected from those areas. Koetan-
eanc''a work conviently incorporated many of the inscrip-
tions previously published in books now rare, or in
journals difficult of access .
Since I960, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnog-
aphy of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia has issued
5 volumes in an ambitiousprojected series of 10 volumes
of Armenian inscriptions, the Corpus Inseriptionum
Armenicarum. a compilation which fully meets the demands
of modern scholarship. Volume I (Erevan, 1966) contains
inscriptions from Ani, while the succeeding volumes
II, III, IV, and VI (Erevan, I960, 1966, 1973, 1977)
embrace those inscriptions located on the territory of
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present-day Armenia . For western and southern historical
Armenia, however, we still must depend on Kostaneanc''s
collection*.
1 See the bibliography in Kostaneanc1, pp. xxviii-xxxi.
2 Divan Kay Vimagrut *yan[Corpus Inscriptionun Armenicarum]
vol. I, H.i. Orbeii, ed.(Erevan, 1966); vol. Ii, s.i».
Barxudaryan, ed. (Erevan,I960); vols. Ill, IV (Erevan,1967,
1973) under the same editor; vol. VI, S.A.Avagyan and H.
U. Janp'oladyan, ed. (Erevan, 1977).
3 The plentiful Armenian epigraphical material from the
13-14th centuries used in our study was originally found
on the interior and exterior walls of the many religious
and secular buildings constructed in that period, on mausolea,
and on the numerous decorated stone memorials known
as xajk'ars ("stone crftssss"). (JontentB vary
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