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Jens Kröger. “Sasanian Stucco” [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2021 This overview of Sasanian stuccoes includes sites divided chronologically – without losing sight of the regional premises. The iconographic repertoire found in the sites hitherto found had been then catalogued in ornamental, plant, figural, animal, and monograms.
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ReligionsThis article presents the first comprehensive study of six unprovenanced Sasanian clay bullae from Iran, held at the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Mumbai.
Yousef Moradi, Almut Hintze
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Book review: Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite coins: a catalogue of coins from the American Numismatic Society by David Jongeward and Joe Cribb with Peter Donovan [PDF]
, 2015 Accepted ...
Tandon, Pankaj
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Breeze of Continuity: New Evidence for the Occupation of Jumeirah Throughout the Islamic Period
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 306-327, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Jumeirah Archaeological Research Project seeks to reassess the long‐term occupation of Jumeirah through an integrated study of three key archaeological sites—Jumeirah 1, 2 and 3. This study builds upon previous excavations and archival data to refine the chronology of the settlement and examine whether these sites functioned as a single ...
Karol Juchniewicz +4 more
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The army of the Kingdom of Al-Hirah, its organization and tasks
آداب الكوفة, 2018 The Kingdom of Al-Hirah is one of the important Arab kingdoms in the pre-Islamic era. It lived with the Sasanian state and had political dependence.
عباس عاجل الحيدري
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna +7 more
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The role of women in the exchange rules of the Mādayān ī hazār dādestān [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2014 The Mādayān ī hazār dādestān «The book of thousand judgements» only an incomplete manuscript of several legal collections of Sasanian era is at hand. Noinformation about the life of Farroxmard Vahrāmān (F son V) collector is available.
Zahra Hosseini, Mahshid Mirfakhraie
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