Achaemenid Culture and Local traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran

Askold Ivantchik, Dr. habil. (1996, Fribourg, Swiss), is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS (Bordeaux) and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of sciences (Moscow). His publications include Les Cimmériens au Proche-Orient (1993), Kimmerier und Skythen (2001) and Am Vorabend der Kolonisation (2005).Vakhtang Licheli, Dr. habil. (1991, Tbilisi, Georgia), is Professor of Archaeology at Tbilisi State University. He has published extensively on archaeology of the Southern Caucasus including Iron Age Colchis and its Early Relations with the Aegean World (2004)

• 1. Askold Ivantchik, Vakhtang Licheli, Introduction2. Lâtife Summerer, Picturing Persian Victory: The Painted Battle Scene on the Munich Wood3. Jens Nieling, Dongus Tapa - An Iron Age settlement in the Udabno-Steppe, Eastern Kakheti 4. Vakhtang Licheli, Oriental innovations in Samtskhe (Southern Georgia) in the 1st Millennium BC5. Mikhail Treister, Тhe Toreutics of Colchis in the 5th – 4th centuries BC. Local traditions, outside influences, innovations. The Colchian School of Toreutics in the system of Artistic Metalworking of the Black Sea area 6. Amiran Kakhidze, Iranian glass perfume vessel from the Pichvnari fifth century BC Greek cemetery7. Ketevan Dzhavakhishvili, Achaemenian Seals found in Georgia8. Iljas Babaev, Iulon Gagoshidze, Florian S. Knauss, An Achaemenid «Palace» at Qarajamirli (Azerbaijan). Preliminary Report on the Excavations in 20069.S.M.S. Sajjadi, Wall painting from Dahaneh-ye Qolaman (Sistan)