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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kleiss, langj�igem Leiter der Au�nstelle Teheran des Deutschen Arch�ogischen Instituts. Einband berieben. - The Western world owes its knowledge of Urartian art mostly to scholars like Lehmann-Haupt, Herzfeld, and Barnett. Certain remarks of theirs, and some recent articles by Miss Maxwell-Hyslop, Miss Kantor, and others, have led to a belief that Urartian art was a complex of various heterogeneous elements. This belief in turn has facilitated the attribution of certain works of art of unknown provenance to Urartian workshops. In this thesis, I hope to demonstrate that, on the contrary, Urartian art had a very definite character of its own, easily recognizable by a number of distinctive features, and that the number of truly Urartian works of art found outside of Urartian territory is limited.