Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]
, 2015 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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TOURAJ DARYAEE. SASANIAN IRAN (224-651 CE)
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2018 Touraj Daryaee. Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE). Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2008, xxiii + 140p., ISBN 978-1-56859-169-8.
Matthew Gray Marsh
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The Balkh 93 AH fulus revisited [PDF]
, 2010 The coins discussed here have been already published, and therefore are not new to the numismatic community. As far as I can see, they were first mentioned by Steve Album who says that a small hoard of them was found1, and they are also listed in the ...
Schindel, Nikolaus
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An Examination of Sassanian Siege Warfare (3rd to 7th centuries CE)
Faces of WarThis article examines Sassanian siege warfare and technology in the domains of ballistae, ‘scorpions’, catapults, and battering rams. Sassanian siege warfare necessitated the use of protection/shielding for personnel (combat troops, engineers, laborers),
Kaveh Farrokh
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Exhibiting coins as economic artefacts: curating historical interpretation in faith and fortune: visualizing the divine on Byzantine and early Islamic coinage (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, November 2013-January 2015) [PDF]
, 2015 Faith and Fortune: visualizing he divine on Byzantine and early Islamic coins was an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (October 2013-January 2015).
Darley, Rebecca, Reynolds, D.
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Persian Immigrants in the Armed Forces of Early Byzantium
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. The article is devoted to Persians who served in the Early Byzantine armed forces. Even during the Principate period, alae and cohortes which were originally recruited from Parthians were part of the Roman imperial army.
Andrey D. Nazarov
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A note on an Umayyad carved ivory plaque kept at the Walters Art Gallery [PDF]
, 2017 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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Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]
, 2016 Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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Himyarite Knights, Infantrymen and Hunters [PDF]
, 2007 Newly found Himyarite reliefs and other finds shed light on the nature of hunting and warfare toward the end of the Himyarite age. While technically speaking, some are published, for the first time they are recogniseable in the present study in good ...
Robin, Christian, Yule, Paul
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Numismática omeya oriental y de Al-Andalus [PDF]
, 2005 Orthodox caliph cUmar emitted the first Muslim currencies. These had religious inscriptions..The coins of gold and copper of the Byzantine Empire, and the coins of silver of the Sasanian Empire were imitated. Later, the fifth Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik
Cano Ávila, Pedro
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