Hripsime Djanpoladian

Hripsime Mikayeli Djanpoladian-Piotrovskaya (, , 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, The family were wealthy and their money came from Nakhichevan salt mines. After graduation in 1940, she took part in excavations at the Karmir-Blur hill of the Teishebaini fortress city.

Career Djanpoladian graduated with a doctorate in archaeology in 1948 entitled “Mkhitar Gosh and the Monastery of Nor Getik", which examined many of the inscriptions there. She worked for the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Arts of the USSR and in the East Department of the Hermitage Museum. She was able to demonstrate that Armenian craftsmen were copying Syrian glassware.