Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire
Amélie Kuhrt’s translation of Pierre Briant’s selected papers has just been published: Briant, Pierre. 2017. Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire. Steiner Franz Verlag....
View ArticleSome stamp seals of Achaemenid date
Collon, Dominique & John Curtis. 2017. “Some stamp seals of Achaemenid date“, In Y. Heffron, A. Stone and M. Worthington (eds), At the Dawn of History: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of...
View ArticleMountain Peoples in the Ancient Near East
Balatti, Silvia. 2017. Mountain Peoples in the Ancient Near East The Case of the Zagros in the First Millennium BC (Classica et Orientalia 18), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. Since Prehistory,...
View ArticleParthian Great King’s rule over vassal Kingdoms
Gregoratti, Leonardo. 2017. “Sinews of the other Empire: Parthian Great King’s rule over vassal Kingdoms” in H. Teigen and E. Seland (eds.), Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and...
View ArticleRegional History and the Coin Finds from Assur: From the Achaemenids to the...
Butcher, Kevin & Heidemann, Stefan. 2017. Regional History and the Coin Finds from Assur: From the Achaemenids to the Nineteenth Century. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen...
View ArticleArt, Culture, Literature & Society in Qajar Iran
Art, Culture, Literature & Society in Iran during the Qadjar Era Second Conference of Iranian Studies organized by the Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Berlin, June...
View ArticleThe History of the ‘Slave of Christ’
Butts, Aaron Michael & Gross, Simcha. 2017. The History of the ‘Slave of Christ’: From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr. ( Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation 6). New Jersey:...
View ArticleThe Architecture of the Persian Period in the Levant
Khries, Hashem. 2017. The Architecture of the Persian Period in the Levant. Scholar Press. This book is a comprehensive study of the Levantine architecture in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. The...
View ArticleReview of Semiramis’ Legacy
Safaee, Yazdan. 2017. “[review of] Semiramis’ Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily“, Iranian Studies 50:5, 752-754. This is the most recent work on Diodorus of Sicily, a famous...
View ArticleStone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period
Squitieri, Andrea . 2017. Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period. (Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 2). Oxford: Archaeopress. This book focuses on the...
View ArticleSylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum Iran: A late Sasanian Hoard from Orumiyeh
Akbarzadegh, Daryoosh & Schindel, Nikolaus. 2017. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum Iran: A late Sasanian Hoard from Orumiyeh. (Veröffentlichungen zur Numismatik 60). Wien: Verlag der österreichischen...
View ArticleJournal of Persianate Studies – Volume 10, Issue 1
The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. For a table of contents, see below: Daniel Beckman: “King Artaxerxes’ Aegean...
View ArticleThe Monarchy of Teispid-Achaemenid Great Kings
Rollinger, Robert. 2017. “Monarchische Herrschaft am Beispiel des teispidisch-achaimenidischen Großreichs“, In S. Rebenich (Hg.), Monarchische Herrschaft im Altertum (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs...
View ArticleEncyclopaedia Iranica – Fascicle 3 of Volume XVI
Fascicle 3 of Volume XVI of the print version of the Encyclopaedia Iranica was published in June of 2017. This segment of the EIr. completes coverage of titles starting with Keg- and proceeds to titles...
View ArticleAncient States and Infrastructural Power
Ando, Clifford & Seth Richardson (eds.). 2017. Ancient states and infrastructural power: Europe, Asia, and America (Empire and After). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. While ancient...
View ArticleCross-Cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, and Western...
Canepa, Matthew P. 2017. “Cross-Cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, and Western and South Asia,” In Richard J. A. Talbert & Fred S. Naiden (eds.), Mercury’s Wings: Exploring...
View ArticleTerritorializing Iran in Late Antiquity
Payne, Richard. 2017. “Territorializing Iran in Late Antiquity“, In Ando, Cifford and Seth Richardson (eds.), Ancient States and Infrastructural: Europe, Asia, and America, 179-217, Power Philadelphia:...
View ArticleThe wolf in ancient Iran
Azarnouche, Samra. 2016. “Le loup dans l’Iran ancien. Entre mythe, réalité et exégèse zoroastrienne”, Anthropology of the Middle East 11(1): 1–19. How did ancient Iranian religion represent the wolf?...
View ArticleAchaemenid Anatolia
International Symposium Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Influence in the Western Satrapies 546–330 BC 7–8 September 2017 The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, The symposium explores the...
View ArticleSasanian Persia
Sauer, Eberhard. 2017. Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the steppes of Eurasia. Edinburgh University Press. The Sasanian Empire (3rd-7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity,...
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