Introduction / Askold Ivantchik, Vakhtang Licheli -- Picturing Persian victory : the painted battle scene on the Munich wood / Lâtife Summerer -- An Achaemenid "palace" at Qarajamirli (Azerbaijan) : preliminary report on the excavations in 2006 / Ilyas Babaev, Iulon Gagoshidze, Florian S. Knau -- An iron age settlement in the Udabno-Steppe, Eastern Kakheti / Jens Nieling, Dongus Tapa -- Oriental innovations in Samtskhe (Southern Georgia) in the 1st millenium BC / Vakhtang Licheli -- The toreutics of Colchis in the 5th-4th Centuries BC. Local traditions, outside influences, innovations / Mikhail Treister -- Iranian glass perfume vessel from the Pichvnari Greek cemetery of the fifth century BC / Amiran Kakhidze -- Achaemenian seals found in Georgia / Ketevan Dzhavakhishvili -- Wall painting from Dahaneh-ye Gholaman (Sistan) / S. Mansur Seyyed Sajjadi.