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Between Mesopotamia and Greece: Cultural influences in Cilician Coin-iconography from the Late 5th to the Early 4th Century BC

open access: yesGephyra, 2021
Our knowledge regarding Cilician coinage between the late 5th and the early 4th century BC has increased considerably in the course of the last two decades.
Wilhelm MÜSELER
doaj   +1 more source

What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023
Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

The Foundation of Philo-Persianism in Classical Greek World

open access: yesJournal of Universal History Studies, 2019
The establishment of the Achaemenid Empire as the most important occurrence of the 6th century B.C. changed all of cultural and social parameters in the most important civilization centres of the ancient world.
Farzad Abedi
doaj   +1 more source

Semiotics of Animal Motifs in the Jewelry of the Achaemenid Era

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2018
Achaemenid art is a combination of different nations' art and a reflection of thought and religion of the era. Plant, human, animal motifs and a combination of them have been used in the art of the Achaemenid era.
Shahryar Shokrpour   +2 more
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Distribution of Achaemenid Period Settlements on the Southwest Iran-Khuzestan Ramhormoz Plain with Survey Data

open access: yesAnadolu Araştırmaları, 2021
The Ramhormoz region in south and southwest Iran and its large-scale geography extends to the northern highlands of present-day modern Khuzestan. Despite its significance for its connection with the Susa-Persopolis Road during the Achaemenid period, the ...
Leila Afshari
doaj   +1 more source

The votive plaques in the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures: what they tell about the cults [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia, 2023
This paper proposes a comparison between the votive plaques which were part of the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures, both dating for the main to the Achaemenid period. In a first section the questions of provenance and authenticity are discussed.
Frantz Grenet
doaj  

A New Perspective on the Archaeology of the Khorasan Region during the Iron Age [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2021
Khorasan’s Iron Age differs significantly from the Iron Age elements found in western Iran. In terms of cultural aspects and life structures, this encompasses two distinct cultures known as Yaz and Dahistan in classic classifications.
Hassan Basafa, Mohammad Sadegh Davari
doaj   +1 more source

The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr ...
David Roselli
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