Students of the history of Urartu and its art encounter some difficulty in associating the surviving Urartian artefacts with the chronology as known from the epigraphic record. The collections of cuneiform inscriptions of König and Melikishvili which serve as a basis for the chronology are in need of some revision and up-dating, while the Hieroglyphic script occasionally employed, to which Barnett has recently drawn attention, in the absence of a decipherment affords no assistance. In recent years archaeologists conducting research into Urartian civilization have begun a series of scientific excavations in the area, and it is to be hoped that these will result in a considerable expansion of knowledge on this subject. In the meantime any additional information in the shape of inscribed objects is to be welcomed.