Ultan Qalası: A Fortified Site in the Sasanian Borderlands (Mughan Steppe, Iranian Azerbaijan) [PDF]
Our knowledge of Sasanian imperial strategy continues to grow as a result of a range of projects investigating the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Understanding of the north-western fringe of the Empire in particular is being increased by the Mughan ...
Alizadeh, Karim
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Oversight, influence and Mesopotamian connections to Armenia across the Sasanian and early Islamic periods [PDF]
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Greenwood, Timothy William
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Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran [PDF]
CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible.
Alizadeh, Karim, Ur, Jason Alik
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Iranian hospitality : from caravanserai to bazaar to reporting symbolic experience [PDF]
This paper reports case studies seeking to address one of the great problems of social science: namely, the extent to which is it possible or desirable accurately to report conscious experience (Hulburt & Scwitzgebel 2007).
O'Gorman, Kevin D., Prentice, Richard C.
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Reliquias y autoridad episcopal en el Irán Sasánida [PDF]
Este trabajo analiza la relación entre episcopado y culto a las reliquias en el Irán sasánida. Al respecto, sostendremos que el culto a las reliquias contribuyó en el proceso de reconfiguración de la Autoridad episcopal en la Iglesia de Oriente iniciado ...
Francisco, Héctor Ricardo
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This paper presents initial research on 73 Sasanian clay bullae housed at the National Museum of Iran. These bullae were returned to Iran from the United States on May 19, 2015. The survey conducted by the author indicates that this collection includes 13 administrative and 60 personal clay bullae, which bear nearly 244 seal impressions.
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Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season [PDF]
In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and Hellenistic periods.
De Jong, Lidewijde +4 more
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Origins of the commercial hospitality industry : from the fanciful to factual [PDF]
Explores some of the different historical roots of commercial hospitality in three distinct epochs with the intention of promoting further empirical research and beginning an informed debate into the origins and evolution of the contemporary hospitality ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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The present paper tries to provide a rough overview over lead coins roughly dating to the Umayyad period (ca. 700-750 AD). Lead coins can be either issued alongside copper coins like in Baalbek or Jurjan as part of the regular petty coinage, they can ...
Schindel, Nikolaus
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Chemical and oxygen isotopic composition of Roman and late Antique glass from northern Greece [PDF]
The present paper emphasizes the importance of measuring the oxygen isotopic and chemical compositions of ancient glass, in order to constrain some features such as age, raw materials, and production technologies and to identify the \u201cfingerprint ...
Dotsika, Elissavet +4 more
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