Reflection of mythological concepts in Achaemenid art jewelry [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2020 The Reflection of Mythological Concepts in Achaemenid Jewelry Art* 1. Introduction jewelry art along with other arts of the Achaemenid era represent the glory of Cyrus the Great and his ...
arezoo asadi, farangis darvishi
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Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly both the reasons and the goals of a phenomenon, that of the so-called ‘deportations’ characteristic of the Achaemenid empire.
Marco Ferrario
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A Note on the Creation Formula in Zechariah 12:1–8; Isaiah 42:5–6; and Old Persian Inscriptions [PDF]
, 2014 This note explores whether the influence of the Old Persian creation formula as well as its underlying theology can be seen in biblical texts. The particular focus is on Zech 12:1–8 and Isa 42:5–6.
Christine Mitchell
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Charles Cournault’s Call for a ‘Persian Museum’ at the Louvre [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological StudiesIn 1857, the French artist Charles Cournault published a plea for a French mission to Persepolis. The aimof the mission was to obtain examples of relief sculpture, like those he had seen in the British Museum, for theLouvre Museum.
Daniel Thomas Potts
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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian 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
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies 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
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The political, religious and economic position of the Mehrnarseh family in the Sassanid government [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023 At the beginning of the third century AD, the Sasanians arose from the province of Pars, the birthplace of the Achaemenids, and established a government in which the Zoroastrian clergy and Nejadeh families had a special position. In the Sasanian history,
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Orientalism, Postcolonialism, And The Achaemenid Empire: Meditations On Bruce Lincoln'S Religion, Empire, And Torture 1 [PDF]
, 2011 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88128/1/j.2041-5370.2011.00026.x ...
Colburn, Henry P.
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann +3 more
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Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]
, 2015 Unlike other related studies which are focusing on either excavations or excavators, this essay explores some aspects of the early development of archaeology in Islamic Iran as a particular moment in intellectual history.
Szántó, Iván
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