Hripsime Djanpoladian
Russian Armenian archaeologist
Hripsime Mikayeli Djanpoladian-Piotrovskaya (Armenian: Հռիփսիմե Միքայելի Ջանփոլադյան-Պիոտրովսկայա, Russian: Рипсимэ Микаэловна Джанполадян-Пиотровская, 26 August 1918 - 1 September 2004) was an archaeologist and epigrapher originally from Armenia.
Biography
Djanpoladian was born in 1918 on the way to Tbilisi, as her family fled from the Armenian genocide. Her parents were Michael and Iranianak, who already had a son, Gurgen. The family were wealthy and their money came from Nakhichevan salt mines.
After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia, the family moved to Yerevan. After finishing school, Djanpoladian chose to study archaeology at Yerevan State University. After graduation in 1940, she took part in excavations at the Karmir-Blur hill of the Teishebaini fortress city. During these excavations she met her future husband, Boris Piotrovsky. Djanpoladian had excavated a figurine of the Urartian god of war, a culture which became Piotrovsky's specialism. They married in Yerevan in 1944, and their son Mikhail Piotrovsky was born there.
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