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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
wiley   +1 more source

Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 823-844, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in Iran) conducted an online survey on religion.
Michael Stausberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 336-356, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 119-127, November 2023., 2023
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 Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla.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
wiley   +1 more source

Survey methods and biases in the Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey, Sultanate of Oman

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page S39-S50, November 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
wiley   +1 more source

The word Jondē Šāpur; its meaning and significance [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2012
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
doaj   +1 more source

A Note on Sasanian Glassware and Zoroastrian Sacred Numbers (Sasanian to Post-Sasanian Periods)

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2022
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most important periods in ancient Iran and one that experienced flourishingof the Zoroastrian religion. As the official religion in the Sasanian to post-Sasanian period, Zoroastrianism can beunderstood better by studying evidence of the religion’s impact on artifacts such as glassware, coins, silver vessels,pottery ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023
Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 380-404, August 2023., 2023
In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
wiley   +1 more source

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