Cruelty against Leniency: The Case of Imperial Zoroastrian Criminal Law
The article examines the impact of Zoroastrianism on criminal law and legal theory during the reign of the Sasanian dynasty (224–651 C.E) in late Antique Persia. This was the historic period when Zoroastrianism was also the ideology of the Iranian state,
Janos Jany
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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
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Survey methods and biases in the Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey, Sultanate of Oman
Abstract The Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey uses different methods to reconstruct the diachronic development of the archaeological landscape within a 930 km2 area. This article evaluates the different outcomes of remote sensing, ground‐truthing and systematic field‐walking of transects regarding the type and chronological range of structures found ...
Stephanie Döpper
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the features of the national sense in the period of Numan bin Al Mundhir, the King of Al-Hirah (585-613 AD) [PDF]
Research is not an easy aspect of Arab history in the pre-Islamic period, due to the lack of basic contemporary sources and the lack of archaeological research from this particular period.
Ibrahim Ali
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James Howard-Johnston. “The Sasanian State: The Evidence of Coinage and Military Construction” [PDF]
En utilisant les donnees archeologiques et numismatiques ainsi que les textes historiques, l’A. dresse un tableau de l’empire sassanide en tant qu'entite politique forte et centralise, capable de maintenir le pouvoir sur tous les coins de cet immense et heterogene territoire. Sur le territoire controle par les Sassanides circulaient les pieces frappees
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USING REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN NORTHEASTERN MESOPOTAMIA [PDF]
This paper introduces two archaeological sites documented during the MULINEM (The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia) project. This project investigates the Late Sasanian and Islamic urban network in the land of Erbil, a historic ...
E. Matoušková +6 more
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Arab Conquests. View from Egypt
The reasons for the success of the Arab conquests present a complex problem. It is difficult to explain the victories of the Arab-Muslim troops, which had much less military-demographic potential than neighboring Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)
Anton Voytenko
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Foreign influences on the copper track located in the Archaeological and Urban Research Center at the University of Mosul [PDF]
The Archaeological and Cultural Research Center of the University of Mosul includes a group of Atabek copper coins (not studied), some of which were discovered in the archaeological excavations carried out by the University of Mosul in the area of ...
Abd-AlWahed Al-Ramadany
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In 2006, the excavation of the palace of the rulers of the Principality of Theodoro (1425–1475) in the central area of the ancient town of Mangup (south-western Crimea) uncovered a unique at this site signet-ring of yellowish chalcedony made in the sixth
Valerii Evgen’evich Naumenko +1 more
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Financial resources in the Armenian region during Arab rule 210 AH / 652 AD - 247 AH / 865 AD [PDF]
Armenian occupies a privileged position in relation to the Arab Islamic state, as it is located on the outskirts of the Levant and the Jazira, and that this location secures these regions from the attacks of the Byzantines, especially after their ...
SalahAlDeen Taha
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