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JózefWolski’s Writings on the Arsacid History and Culture: A Critique [PDF]
Józef Wolski’s works on the Arsacid history and culture have led to a new approach which has shed new light on the unknown and ambiguous aspects of the Arsacid Empire.
Farshid Naderi
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Persian Collections: Center and Periphery at Achaemenid Imperial Capitals
The absence of a true Achaemenid Persian “historiography” necessitates that we look elsewhere to construct Persian ideological interactions with the periphery.
Jennifer Finn
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Yau̯nā and Sakā: Identity Constructions at the Margins of the Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire can be reasonably considered an “empire of peoples” from both an ideological and structural perspective. It included all the lands of the peoples of the world and all people helped to maintain imperial order and prosperity.
Silvia Balatti
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Pre-Islamic religious motifs (550 BC to 651 AD) on Iranian minor art with focus on rug motifs
This article reviewed the influence of pre-Islamic religions such as Mithraism and Zoroastrianism on decorative elements of ancient Persian rugs. The article then evaluated the effect of the Islamic religion on Persian rugs.
Abouali Ladan, Jake Kaner
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National History or Keyanid History?: The Nature of Sasanid Zoroastrian Historiography
The Omission of the Achaemenids from Indigenous Accounts of Iranian history has puzzled many and led to the assumption that the Sasanids were unaware of the Achaemenids and did not have any historical memory of them; that, if anything, the Sasanids were ...
Touraj Daryaee
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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The Use of Treaties in the Achaemenid Empire [PDF]
Starting in the mid-fifth century BCE, the Achaemenid Persian empire entered into a series of treaties with various Greek city-states. While treaties had often been used across the Ancient Near East prior to the Persian conquests, they did not play a ...
Beckman, Daniel
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ABSTRACT Grey ware lamp fragments and a production waster from Tell Iẓṭabba (Israel) were analyzed to determine their manufacturing technology and provenance. These were compared with a light brown‐orange reference fabric from the same site.
Dana Ashkenazi +3 more
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Anthropomorphic Images of the Early Iron Age in the Rock Art of the Upper Indus Valley
The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the cultural and historical processes in the Upper Indus Valley during the Early Iron Age. The objectives of the research include: the systematization of currently known anthropomorphic petroglyphs, which, due
V. L. Denisenko
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ABSTRACT Discussions of style in contemporary analytic philosophy have been confined almost exclusively to aesthetics, yet many bodily actions seem to exhibit styles as well. We can have an aggressive or a placid style of driving; a sloppy or a meticulous style of washing the dishes; an idiomatic or a weird way of playing jazz.
Noam Tiran
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