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View ArticleBīsotūn and the French Enlightenment
Potts, Daniel Thomas. 2018. Bīsotūn and the French enlightenment. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1–32. This study examines a little-known case of Enlightenment knowledge transmission centred on...
View ArticleBibliographia Manichaica Selecta: Selected Works for Manichaean Studies
Shokri-Foumeshi, Mohammad. 1397 š [2018]. ketābšenāsī-ye moṭāleʿāt-e mānavī: šenāḫt-e możuʿī-ye manabeʿ-o maʾāḫeẕ [Bibliographia Manichaica Selecta. Selected Works for Manichaean Studies]. Tehran:...
View ArticleIntercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative
Stolper Matthew W. 2018. Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative: Documents from Persepolis. In C. Jay Crisosotomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, & Niek Veldhuis (eds.). The...
View ArticleThe Persian Dictionary Sorme-ye Soleymānī
Shavarebi, Ehsan. 2018. The Persian Dictionary Sorme-ye Soleymānī (Early 11th/17th Century) and its manuscript in the library of the Oriental faculty of St. Petersburg State University (MS.O 174)....
View ArticleCultural and linguistic relations within the Achaemenid Empire
ÁLVAREZ-PEDROSA, Juan Antonio , Flavia POMPEO & Maria Carmela BENVENUTO (eds.). 2017. Del Indo al Egeo. Relaciones culturales y lingüísticas en el interior del Imperio aqueménida, Madrid: Guillermo...
View ArticleFalcons and falconry in pre-modern Persia
Daryaee, Touraj & Soodabeh Malekzadeh. 2018. Falcons and falconry in pre-modern Persia, in Karl-Heinz Gersmann & Oliver Grimm (eds.), Raptor and human: falconry and bird symbolism throughout...
View ArticleRam horns as sacral royal regalia of Šāpūr II
Maksymiuk, Katarzyna. 2018. Ram horns as sacral royal regalia of Šāpūr II. Istorìâ relìgìj v Ukraïnì: Naukovij šorìčnik 28(1). 17–29. The work of Ammianus Marcellinus preserved valuable information on...
View ArticleTwo Job offers at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
The Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of the Ruhr-University of Bochum has advertised two positions for postdoctoral or doctoral research associates related but not restricted to Iranian Studies....
View ArticleThe Iranian expanse
Canepa, Matthew. 2018. The Iranian expanse: Transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE. Oakland, California: University of California Press....
View ArticleLinguistic Paradox and Diglossia
Houben, Jan. 2018. Linguistic paradox and diglossia: The emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in ancient India. Open Linguistics 4(1). 1–18. What is it about? “We know that Middle Indian...
View ArticleThe end of the Kura-Araxes culture as seen from Nadir Tepesi in Iranian...
Alizadeh, Karim, Sepideh Maziar & Mirrouhollah Mohammadi. 2018. The end of the Kura-Araxes culture as seen from Nadir Tepesi in Iranian Azerbaijan. American Journal of Archaeology 122(3). 463-477....
View ArticleEmpires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity
Cosmo, Nicola di & Michael Maas (eds.). 2018. Empires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The Table of...
View ArticleArsacid Cities in the Hanshu and Houhanshu
Zanous, Hamidreza Pasha & Juping Yang. 2018. Arsacid Cities in the Hanshu and Houhanshu. Iran and the Caucasus 22 (2), 123–138. In the reports of Chinese travellers submitted to the Emperors, they...
View ArticleGender, Personal Adornment, and Costly Signaling in the Iron Age Burials of...
Cifarelli, Megan. 2018. Gender, Personal Adornment, and Costly Signaling in the Iron Age Burials of Hasanlu, Iran. In Saana Svärd and Agnes Garcia-Ventura (eds.), Studying Gender in the Ancient Near...
View ArticleDependent Labor and Status in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods
Kleber, Kristin. 2018. Dependent Labor and Status in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods. In Agnès Garcia-Ventura (ed.), What’s in a name? Terminology related to work force and job categories in...
View ArticleEndangered Iranian Languages
Gholami, Saloumeh (ed.). 2018. Endangered Iranian Languages. Reichert Verlag. This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the...
View ArticleMixtures of Irano-Aryan ethnography and dialectology in memory of...
M. De Chiara, A.V. Rossi & D. Septfonds (eds.). 2018. Mélanges d’ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffer. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 61). Leuven:...
View ArticleArchaeological traces of the Achaemenid palaces of Hamadan
Boucharlat, Rémy. 2018. Les traces archéologiques des palais achéménides de Hamadan. Arta 2018.002. Several tens of incomplete column bases and fragments of column drums and stone capitals testify to...
View ArticleBiblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra’s Against the Manichaeans
P.H. Poirier & T. Pettipiece. 2018. Biblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra’s Against the Manichaeans: An Annotated Inventory. (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 78). Turnhout:...
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