Mithras – Miθra – Mitra
Lahe, Jaan. 2019. Mithras – Miθra – Mitra. Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte (Kasion 3). München: Zaphon. The Roman Mithras cult is one of the...
View ArticleFire in Zoroastrian and Manichaean Apocalyptic
König, Götz. 2019. The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources. In Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens & Tanja Pommerening (eds.), Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?...
View ArticleCalendar as an Identity Marker of the Zoroastrian Community in Iran
Niechciał, Pauline. 2019. Calendar as an Identity Marker of the Zoroastrian Community in Iran. Iran and the Caucasus 23 (1): 35-49. The article reflects on the idea of both calendric time and its...
View ArticleJourney to the City
Tinney, Steve & Karen Sonik (eds.). 2019. Journey to the City :A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and...
View ArticleMIDDLE PERSIAN PRIVATE INSCRIPTIONS
Nasrollahzadeh, Cyrus. 2019. Middle Persian Private Inscriptions in the Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Period: Funerary and Memorial Inscriptions, Vol I: Text & vol. II: picture. Tehran: Institute for...
View ArticleNew Research on Central Asian, Buddhist and Far Eastern Art and Archaeology
Juliano, Annette & Judith Lerner (eds.). 2019. Inner and Central Asian art and archaeology. Vol. 2. New research. Turnhout: Brepols. This second volume of the series offers a broad range of subject...
View ArticleAssyromania and More
Pedde, Friedhelm & Nathanael Shelley (eds.). 2018. Assyromania and more. In memory of Samuel M. Paley. Münster: Zaphon. Among other interesting subjects, this book contains three papers regarding...
View ArticleAramaic traces through coins in the Iranian world
Šafiʿī, Ibrahim. 2018. Aramaic Traces through Coins in the Iranian World. Shodoznavstvo 82: 125–166. Aramaic language(s) in its four phases with different scripts on various materials have been found...
View ArticleL’histoire, volume 60
The latest volume of the magazine, “L’histoire”, is dedicated to Achaemenid Persia. Among other interesting subjects in this volume, the following articles are remarkable: Pierre Briant: Achéménides:...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Avestan
Cantera, Alberto & Céline Redard. 2019. Introduction à l’avestique récent. Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios. Cette introduction à l’avestique récent a pour but de fournir un outil...
View ArticleShould we say goodbye to the Median kingdom?
Parker, Victor. 2019. Sollten wir das medische Reich aus der Geschichte verabschieden?. Klio 101 (1): 1-56. In spite of some scholars’ recent arguments that the Median Kingdom, which according to...
View ArticleFestschrift Mehdi Rahbar
Moradi, Yousef (ed.). 2019. Afarin Nameh: Essays on the Archeaology of Iran in Honour of Mehdi Rahbar. Tehran: The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT). Table of Contents...
View ArticleJournal Asiatique 307 (1)
The first issue of Journal Asiatique 307 (2019) has been published. The following articles are related to the scope of Iranica: Michaël PEYROT, Georges-Jean PINAULT and Jens WILKENS: Vernaculars of the...
View ArticleA typological study of Voice Onset Time
Hussain, Qandeel. 2018. A typological study of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Indo-Iranian languages. Journal of Phonetics 71. 284–305. The stop consonants of Indo-Iranian languages are categorized into two...
View ArticleNew Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics
Roland, Oetjen (ed.). 2019. New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics: Studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 355). Berlin: De Gruyter. Dedicated to...
View ArticleIndia in the Persianate age
Eaton, Richard Maxwell. 2019. India in the Persianate age, 1000-1765. Oakland, California: University of California Press. Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a...
View ArticleThe administrative geography of the Sassanian Empire
Rika Gyselen, La géographie administrative de l’empire sassanide: les té́moignages épigraphiques en moyen-perse, Res Orientals, XXV (Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l’étude de la civilisation du...
View ArticleStudies on Pre-Islamic Iran and on Historical Linguistics
Lurje, Pavel (Ed.). 2019. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies. Held on 14–19 Sep. 2015 at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of...
View ArticleThe Scythians
Cunliffe, Barry. 2019. The Scythians: Nomad warriors of the steppe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across...
View ArticleIran 57(2)
Volume 57, issue 2 of Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian: Iran 57(2). Table of Contents: Obituary Leonard Lewisohn Article The Settlement Patterns in Roshtkhar Plain, Northeastern of...
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