CT anatomy of cervical vertebrae of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). [PDF]
Vet Med Sci, 2022 This study aimed to investigate a standard morphologic and morphometric description of the elephant cervical spine. For this study, the cervical vertebrae of the Asian elephant, cattle and horse were examined. In this study, the structure of the cervical vertebrae of the Asian elephant was examined, and certain features were observed.
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A Note on Sasanian Glassware and Zoroastrian Sacred Numbers (Sasanian to Post-Sasanian Periods) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2022 The Sasanian Empire was one of the most important periods in ancient Iran and one that experienced flourishingof the Zoroastrian religion. As the official religion in the Sasanian to post-Sasanian period, Zoroastrianism can beunderstood better by ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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A Note on the Compound Kabul/ Zirang-China/ Chinestan Based on Kush-nama [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 1.Introduction Kuš-nāma (501-04/1108-11) is one of the most important books dealing with Iran-China and Silla historical relations. A unique manuscript of the work (by M.
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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Investigation of Sassanid civil activities during the Shapur I period in Khuzistan (Case study of Shushtar and Ramhormoz Bridges-Dams) [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 Introduction Jareh Dam can be found 35 km Northwest of the Ramhormoz township in Khuzestan province, Iran; and has been constructed in narrow valleys within the Zard River by stones and plaster.
Mahnaz Sharifi
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Plan, Form and Function of a “Fortified” Site in the Iranian Sistan of Post-Achaemenid and possibly Parthian Period [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2021 As it is well known, the tradition of studies on the post-Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods in general, and on the Iranian Plateau in particular, has always maintained that in that period the urbanization processes of the territory were
Bruno Genito
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The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon
Electrum, 2022 This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran.
Touraj Daryaee
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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2022 In New Persian (hereafter NP) there are more than two dozen Arabic borrowings, attested in different dictionaries and partly still using today for the concept of "leader" [8], while most of the words for the same concept in Middle Persian (hereafter MP ...
Artyom Tonoyan , Artem Davydov
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Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 336-356, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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