The Parsis of Singapore
Kanga, Suna & Subina Aurora Khaneja. 2017. The Parsis of Singapore: History, culture, cuisine. Epigram Books. When Suna first moved to Singapore, there were barely forty Parsis; today there are...
View ArticleMithra and the Arrangement of Geographical Lists in the Achaemenid and...
Tamari, Nazanin. 2017. “Mithra and the Arrangement of Geographical Lists in the Achaemenid and Sasanid Inscriptions“, Journal of Historical Researches 8(4), 111-130. The division of the world is one of...
View ArticleAncient Near Eastern Studies, Volume 53
Ancient Near Eastern Studies is a refereed journal and accepts original articles devoted to the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East. The geographical area on which we primarily focus...
View ArticleWith Alexander in India and Central Asia
Antonetti, Claudia, & Paolo Biagi (ed.). 2017. With Alexander in India and Central Asia: moving east and back to west. Oxbow Books. Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is...
View ArticleTreasury Secretary at Persepolis
Stolper, Matthew W. 2017. “From the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, 6 The Dossier of Šarbaladda, Treasury Secretary at Persepolis.” ARTA: Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology, no. 001...
View ArticleThe Taking of the wāž and the Priestly College in the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy
Cantera, Alberto. 2016. “The Taking of the wāž and the Priestly College in the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy“, Journal Asiatique 304(1), 47-63.
View ArticleThe genetic legacy of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India
Lopez, Saioa, Mark G Thomas, Lucy van Dorp, Naser Ansari-Pour, Sarah Stewart, Abigail L Jones, Erik Jelinek, Lounes Chikhi, Tudor Parfitt, Neil Bradman, Michael E Weale & Garrett Hellenthal. 2017....
View ArticleArchaeological Discoveries at Tillya–tepe and Parthia’s Relations with Bactria
Olbrycht, Marek Jan. 2016. “Archaeological Discoveries at Tillya–tepe and Parthia’s Relations with Bactria“, Parthica 18. A number of studies have been published on a variety of aspects of the...
View ArticlePicturing Pasargadae: Visual Representation and the Ambiguities of Heritage...
Mozaffari, Ali. 2017. “Picturing Pasargadae: Visual Representation and the Ambiguities of Heritage in Iran“, Iranian Studies 50(4), 601-634. This paper probes the relationship between visual...
View ArticleA Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884
Harris, Russell & Marjan Afsharian (eds.). 2017. A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne. Leiden University Press. In 1884 an obscure British soldier,...
View ArticleThe second issue of Studia Iranica 45
The second issue of Studia Iranica 45 (2016) has been published. Three papers of this issue are related to our interest: PANAINO, Antonio: 6666 or the Figure of Ahreman’s Invasion A Note about...
View ArticleAn Italian translation of Shahnameh
Cristoforetti, Simone (ed.). 2017. Shahnameh Il Libro dei Re. Testo Poetico Persiano Dell’edizione Turner Macan. Italo Pizzi. The first integral reprint of the Persian text of Abu ‘l-Qasem Ferdowsi’s...
View ArticleThe Captive Emperor: Valerian, Persia and the Defeat of Edessa
Coloru, Omar. 2017. L’imperatore prigioniero. Valeriano, la Persia e la disfatta di Edessa. Editori Laterza. In 260 AD, the emperor Valerian is made prisoner by the “King of kings” Shapur I: he will...
View ArticleAchaemenid Visual Representations of Royal Figures
Erica Ehrenberg, “Achaemenid Visual Representations of Royal Figures,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2017, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/achaemenid-visual-reps (accessed on...
View ArticleManichaica and Sogdica from Russia
The latest issue of Written Monuments of the Orient (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts; Asiatic Museum; Russian Academy of Sciences), with two articles regarding the Middle Iranian Studies has been...
View ArticleThe Persian Gulf: Khark
Floor, Willem, & D. T. Potts. 2017. The Persian Gulf: Khark: The Island’s Untold Story. Mage Publishers. The island of Khark was an important link in Persian Gulf navigation, supplying passing...
View ArticleZoroastrian afterlife beliefs and funerary practices
Hintze, Almut. 2017. “Zoroastrian afterlife beliefs and funerary practices“. In: Christopher M Moreman (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying, 86–97, London and New York: Routledge.
View ArticleThe Coinage Reforms of Khusru II and the Revolt of Vistāhm
Tyler-Smith, Susan. 2017. The Coinage Reforms (600-603) of Khusru II and the Revolt of Vistāhm. (Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 54). London: Royal Numismatic Society. One of the most...
View ArticleYezidi Religious Textual Tradition
Omarkhali, Khanna. 2017. The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts with Samples of...
View ArticlePersepolis Administrative Archives
Annalisa Azzoni, Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Mark B. Garrison, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Matthew W. Stolper, “PERSEPOLIS ADMINISTRATIVE ARCHIVES,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online...
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