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 | | The neighbors of Greater Mannea in the north and northwest were the Urartians and the Scythians (in the first half of the seventh century BCE; see Ivantchik, 1993, passim). |
 | | It is not explicitly stated that these locales, which are recorded in Urartian inscriptions (numbers in parentheses refer to Diakonoff and Kashkai, 1979; 3-7 and 8, 9, below, are mentioned in the same source), belonged to the western section of Mannea. |
 | | If one can rely on the restricted onomastic sample (27 anthroponyms), only in Mannea and its environs, which were on the Urartian border, were the Hurro-Urartians the second-largest group (1-4 individuals = 14.8-3.7 percent, compared with one individual with a Kassite name = 3.7 percent). |
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