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Forgetting cane grasses: Switching temporal focus to reveal mosaics of Saccharum diversity
Sugarcane (Saccharum cvs.) is one of the most important cash crops globally. Related varieties and species of cane grasses of the genus Saccharum are also important subsistence crops in the Indo‐Pacific region. Despite the significance of these crops globally and recent advances in genetic characterisation, the histories and geographies of ...
Tim Denham
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Investigating the reason why Marv was named Sāhīgān and the activity of its mint during the Sasanian period [PDF]
IntroductionThe article "Investigating the reason for naming Merv to Shahigan and the activity of its mint during the Sasanian period" examines a special and important title for the city of Merv during the Sasanian period, under the title of "Shahigan ...
Hakimeh Ahmadizadeh Shendi +2 more
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Two New Pahlavi Inscriptions from Fars Province, Iran [PDF]
First edition of two previously unknown Middle Persian inscriptions from the region of Fars in ...
Asadi, Ali, Cereti, Carlo G.
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula
Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti +4 more
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A note on an Umayyad carved ivory plaque kept at the Walters Art Gallery [PDF]
This paper proposes an iconographical and stylistic analysis of a carved ivory plaque kept at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (acc. no. 71.62). It will show that it is not a Coptic artefact featuring a Sasanian king, as assumed until now, but an ...
DI CESARE, Michelina
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Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]
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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Bay rāmšahr, a Sasanian Title in the Shahnama [PDF]
Scholars are slowly trying to re-edit the Shahnama and in this, they sometimes ask for help from pre-Islamic languages and documents. It is natural to find in the Shahnama reflections of the conditions of the Sassanid era and administrative terms ...
Ahmadreza Qaemmaqami, Amir Arghavan
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The word Jondē Šāpur; its meaning and significance [PDF]
Sasanians were the great builders of cities and the extension and importance of building cities in Sasanian epoch were reflected in historical and geographical texts.
شهرام جلیلیان
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This article reexamines a wall painting discovered in 1925 and 1929 by Ernst Herzfeld in the Painted Gallery of the great Parthian-Sasanian temple complex at Kuh-i Khwaja in Iran (Sistan-Baluchestan province).
Frantz Grenet
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During the Sasanian period (224-651), a number of buildings situated in Iran and Mesopotamia with distinct architectural features were decorated with stucco, which was carved, moulded and later painted. The rich repertoire, which is repeated over a long period and in different regions, consists of geometrical patterns, plants as well as a large number ...
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