Parthian Cities and Strongholds in Turkmenistan
Olbrycht, Marek Jan. 2015. Parthian cities and strongholds in Turkmenistan. International Journal of Eurasian Studies 2. 117–125. The Arsacid empire (247 BC – AD 226) emerged as the result of a nomadic...
View ArticleArsacid Iran and cultural transfer
Olbrycht, Marek Jan. 2015. Arsacid Iran and the nomads of Central Asia – Ways of cultural transfer. In Bemmann, Jan & Michael Schmauder (eds.), Complexity of interaction along the Eurasian steppe...
View ArticleThe Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
Geller, Markham J. (ed.). 2015. The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud. (IJS Studies in Judaica 16). Brill. The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information...
View ArticleA Hoard of Silver Rhyta of the Achaemenid Circle from Erebuni
Treister, Mikhail Yu.2015. A Hoard of Silver Rhyta of the Achaemenid Circle from Erebuni. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 21 (1), 23-119. This paper is devoted to a treasure found in...
View ArticleMeetings between ancient empires
The ever active and innovative Jordan Center for Persian Studies of the University of California, Irvine, has announced a new book series, of which the second volume is known to us: Rose, Jenny. 2015....
View ArticleOn Parthian and Sasanian Empires
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta, Elizabeth Pendleton, Michael Alram & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2016. The Parthian and early Sasanian Empires: Adaptation and expansion (The British Institute of Persian Studies...
View ArticleMani’s pictures
Gulácsi, Zsuzsanna. 2015. Mani’s pictures: The didactic images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 90). Brill. The...
View ArticleSeven Epic Poems
Ghafouri, Reza. 2015. Haft Manẓūmeh-ye Ḥamāsī (Seven Epic Poems). Bīzhan Nāmeh, Kuk Kūhzād Nāmeh, Babr-e Bayān, Patyāreh, Tahmīneh Nāmeh-ye Kūtāh, Tahmīneh Nāmeh-ye Boland, and Razm Nāmeh-ye...
View ArticleRethinking Sasanian Iconoclasm
Shenkar, Michael. 2015. Rethinking Sasanian Iconoclasm. Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (3), 471-498 This article presents a detailed reconsideration of the well-established and canonized...
View ArticleWaterways of Iraq and Iran in the early Islamic period
Verkinderen, Peter. 2015. Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the early Islamic period: changing rivers and landscapes of the Mesopotamian plain. I.B. Tauris. The waterways of ancient Iraq were crucial to...
View ArticleJournal of the American Oriental Society
The latest issue of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 135(3), has several articles and reviews of interest to scholars of ancient Iran. We have already announced Michael Shenkar’s...
View ArticleFrom Samarkand to Istanbul
Schiltz, Véronique (ed.). 2015. De Samarcande à Istanbul: étapes orientales. (Hommages à Pierre Chuvin 2). Paris: CNRS Éditions. Pierre Chuvin, the renomate scholar of hellenistic studies has devoted...
View ArticleThe vision of Ahura Mazdā’s poet
Panaino, Antonio. 2015. The vision of Ahura Mazdā’s poet. Notes on Y. 31,5. In M.C. Pelevin (ed.), «НА ПАСТБИЩЕ МЫСЛИ БЛАГОЙ» Сборник статей к юбилею И. М. Стеблин-Каменского [Collection of articles...
View ArticleThe Seleucids and Iran
Plischke, Sonja. 2014. Die Seleukiden und Iran: die seleukidische Herrschaftspolitik in den östlichen Satrapien. (Classica et Orientalia 9). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. This revised doctoral thesis...
View ArticleArts of the Hellenized East
Carter, Martha, Prudence Harper & Pieter Meyers (eds.). 2015. Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious metalwork and gems of the pre-Islamic era. Thames & Hudson. The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait,...
View ArticleA tribute to Éric Pirart
The second issue of the Estudios Iranios y Turanios, which was launched last year by the Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios, has been published. This issue of the journal, entitled Homenaje a Éric...
View ArticleSogdian Art and Archaelogy in China
Wertmann, Patrick. 2015. Sogdians in China. Archaeological and art historical analyses of tombs and texts from the 3rd to the 10th century AD. Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung,...
View ArticleMehrgān at Persepolis
Bahadori, Ali. 2015. Persepolitan ceremonies: The case of Mehrgān. Ancient West & East 14. 51–71. The celebration of the Mehrgān at Persepolis is a hypothesis that has never been discussed in...
View ArticleScythian messages for Darius the Great
Delpech, François. 2015. Objets sacrées et armes parlantes: Le message des Scythes à Darius entre le mythe d’origine et l’historiographie. Journal Asiatique 303 (1), 25–46.
View ArticleLa Gâthâ Ahunauuaitī dans l’attente de l’aube
Kellens, Jean. 2014. La Gâthâ Ahunauuaitī dans l’attente de l’aube. Journal Asiatique 302 (2), 259–302.
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