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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Foreign influences on the copper track located in the Archaeological and Urban Research Center at the University of Mosul [PDF]

open access: yesآداب الرافدين, 1976
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
doaj   +1 more source

Sasanian Pseudo-Signet-Ring Excavated at the Palace of Mangup: The Aspects of Its Attribution and Interpretation

open access: yesАнтичная древность и средние века, 2021
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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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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Financial resources in the Armenian region during Arab rule 210 AH / 652 AD - 247 AH / 865 AD [PDF]

open access: yesآداب الرافدين, 1981
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
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean

open access: yes, 2023
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 357-359, August 2023.
Claudia Rapp
wiley   +1 more source

Written Sources from Ancient Albanian-Georgian Communications (Sagdukht - Princess Rani and Queen of Kartli)

open access: yesЯзык и текст, 2020
National-cultural and religious disappearance of the Christian countries of the Caucasus (Albania, Iberia, Armenia) from the V century was threatened by Persia.
V. Chelidze
doaj   +1 more source

Sasanian Presence and Late Iron Age Samad in Central Oman, some Corrections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The question arises as to the nature of Parthian and Sasanian presence in south-eastern Arabia. Important is the role of the archaeological record in Oman in the early first millennium CE.
Yule, Paul
core   +1 more source

Gay in the Sasanian period: some preliminary notes on its circular urban plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper examines the Sasanian allegedly circular city of Gay, in the region of Isfahan. Material traces of the city have unfortunately been lost so we are forced to rely on Islamic literary sources alone.
Duva, Federica
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Renewal and perspectives in Iranian archaeology over the last two decades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In memory of Olivier Lecomte. From Tureng Tepe to Ulug Depe a 45-year friendshipThese few pages provide a very schematic overview of archaeological research in Iran since the end of the 20th century.
Boucharlat, Rémy
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