The Deccan Sultanates
Flatt, Emma. 2019. The courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living well in the Persian cosmopolis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was...
View ArticleArab-Sasanian Numismatics and History during the Early Islamic Period in Iran...
Malek, Hodge Mehdi. 2019. Arab-Sasanian Numismatics and History during the Early Islamic Period in Iran and Iraq: The Johnson Collection of Arab-Sasanian Coins (Royal Numismatic Society Special...
View ArticleSilk Roads
Whitfield, Susan (ed.). 2019. Silk roads: Peoples, cultures, landscapes. California: University of California Press. The Silk Roads continue to capture the imagination of the public, and, in 2014, a...
View ArticleTaxing Achaemenid Arachosia: Evidence from Persepolis
King, Rhyne. 2019. Taxing Achaemenid Arachosia: Evidence from Persepolis. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 78(2): 185-199.
View ArticleSasanian Persia and the Tabarestan Archive
Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2019. Sasanian Persia and the Tabarestan Archive (Res Orientales 27). Bures sur Yvette: Groupe d’Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient. James Howard-Johnston: «World War in...
View ArticleDPg: Ahuramazdā and the Creation of Water
Delshad, Soheil. 2019. DPg: Ahuramazdā and the Creation of Water, with a New Text Edition. Iranian Studies 52(3-4): 575-588. Among the Achaemenid inscriptions, DPg has been the topic of several studies...
View ArticleVOL. 20 of Parthica
Volume 20 of the journal “Parthica” (2018) contains several interesting contributions. Table of contents: F. SINISI, A. BETTS, G. KHOZHANIYAZOV: Royal fires in the ancient Iranian world: the evidence...
View ArticleArt of Sogdian immigrants
Xu, Jin. 2019. The funerary couch of An Jia and the art of Sogdian immigrants in sixth-century China. Burlington Magazine, No. 1399 – Vol 161. 820–829. The tomb of An Jia, leader of a Sogdian immigrant...
View ArticleSasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and Islamic Art and Culture
Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan & Falko Daim (eds.). 2019. Sasanidische Spuren in der byzantinischen, kaukasischen und islamischen Kunst und Kultur | Sasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and...
View ArticleThe Archaeology of Afghanistan
Allchin, Raymond, Warwick Ball & Norman Hammond (eds.). 2019. The archaeology of Afghanistan from earliest times to the Timurid period. Edinburgh University Press. Afghanistan is at the cultural...
View ArticleEmpires of the sea
Wijk, Roy van. 2019. Contested hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s. In Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde & Roy van Wijk (eds.), Empires of the sea: Maritime power...
View ArticleAlexander III, Darius I and the land acquired by spears
Degen, Julian. 2019. Alexander III, Darius I and the Spear-Derived Land (Diode 17, 17, 2). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 6(1): 53–95. This article aims to shed new light on Diodorus’ episode...
View ArticleLucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome
Nabel, Jake. 2019. Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome. Classical Philology 114(4). 604–625. For an epic that recounts the horrors of civil war, Lucan’s poem refers with surprising frequency to an enemy...
View ArticleVolume in Honour of Professor Anna Krasnowolska
Volume 14 of Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, an special issue in Honour of Professor Anna Krasnowolska, has been published, and the articles seem to be freely available at...
View ArticleArchaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt
Colburn, Henry P. 2019. Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt. Edinburgh University Press. A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCE...
View ArticleAmong Digitized Manuscripts
Lit, L. W. Cornelius van. 2019. Among digitized manuscripts. Philology, codicology, paleography in a digital world (Handbuch Der Orientalistik 137). Leiden: Brill. Working with manuscripts has become a...
View ArticlePersian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements
Silverman, Jason. 2019. Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King’s Acolytes (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies). T&T Clark. Jason...
View ArticleAncient Knowledge Networks
Robson, Eleanor. 2019. Ancient knowledge networks: A social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia. London: UCL Press. This book is currently available as open...
View ArticlePersian imperial policy and local sanctuaries
Achenbach, Reinhard (ed.). 2019. Persische Reichspolitik und lokale Heiligtümer. Beiträge einer Tagung des Exzellenzclusters «Religion und Politik in Vormoderne und Moderne» vom 24.–26. Februar 2016 in...
View ArticleAnabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia – Volume 9
Volume nine (2018) of Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia, edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht, is out now. Several papers and reviews of this issue relate to ancient Iran: Table of Contents: ISSUE 1:...
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