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The Role and Place of the Middle Persian Language and Writing in Caucasian Albania

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2021
A significant political influence of Sasanian Iran on Caucasian Albania gives reasons to consider the spread of the Middle Persian language and writing among the Albanian nobility and authorities.
M. Gadzhiev
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Jason M. Schlude and Benjamin B. Rubin, eds. Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2017, xvi and 158pp., b/w illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-1-78570-592-2)

European Journal of Archaeology, 2018
Animated Objects of Viking Age Scandinavia and Early Medieval Europe. Archaeological Dialogues, 24(1): 89–108. Meller, H., ed. 2004. Der Geschmiedete Himmel: Die Weite Welt im Herzen Europas vor 3600 Jahren.
Eve Macdonald
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Bahl Šahastan in the land of the K‘ušans: Medieval Armenian memories of Balkh as an Arsacid capital

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2021
This paper explores the medieval Armenian understanding of the city of Balkh as a capital of the Arsacid Empire. Medieval Armenian sources employ four strategies of remembrance: scriptural geography, genealogy, folk etymology, and origin stories.
Alison Vacca
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Pre-Christian Polytheism in Ancient Armenia: A Syncretic World of Faith during the Orontids, Artaxiads and Arsacids

Cedrus
Pre-Christian Armenia’s religious landscape was a diverse blend of polytheistic beliefs shaped by its position at the crossroads of various civilizations. The Armenian pantheon and religious practices incorporated elements from Ancient Persia, Asia Minor,
İlhami Tekin Ci̇nemre
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Marble columnar sarcophagi in the context of the Arsacids palace residence in Garni

ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies
The palace complex of the Arsacids was opened in Garni in 1952-1953. About 70 pieces of marble lay on the floor of the second room in the southeastern half of the palace. The collection consists of pieces of two types.
H. Margaryan
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A Bower in the Arsacides

2022
Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Herman Melville, Hester Blum
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Arsacid Temple Records

Iraq, 1981
The use of cuneiform as a recording medium survived in Babylonia some 500 years after the loss of political independence. Records from the Arsacid period, however, are not numerous nor have those published been subject to systematic study. The texts presented here are among the latest administrative records in cuneiform and are concerned primarily with
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Parthian Art – Arsacid Art

Topoi, 2011
Invernizzi Antonio. Parthian Art – Arsacid Art. In: Topoi, volume 17/1, 2011. pp. 189-207.
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The Empire Strikes Back

Reign of Arrows, 2020
This chapter investigates the initial failure of the Seleucids in their attempt to reclaim the lost lands of the east. It discusses the failed eastern expedition of Seleucus II; however, its focus is the sudden renewal of Seleucid power under the ...
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
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From Migrants to Masters of the Middle East

, 2020
This chapter considers the reasons for the success of the Parthians in their rise from a minor nomadic group to a dominant imperial force. It analyzes the most important cultural factors of the early Parthian state, namely the versatility of Parthian ...
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
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