NeHeT 7
The issue 7 of the NeHeT journal is now available. The latest issue of this Egyptological journal is dedicated to reports of current research about Tell el-Herr and North Sinai under the direction of...
View ArticleThe imprint of empires in the ancient Near East
Clancier, Philippe & Julien Monerie (eds.). 2023. L’empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien: Volume d’hommage offert à Francis Joannès (Études Mésopotamiennes 3). Oxford: ArchaeoPress....
View ArticleColor and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia
Nagel, Alexander. 2023. Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In this volume, Alexander Nagel investigates the use of polychromy in the art and...
View ArticleSasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran
Priestman, Seth M. N. & Derek Kennet. 2023. Sasanian and Islamic settlement and ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD): The Williamson Collection Project (British Institute of Persian...
View ArticleAspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran
Potts, Daniel T. 2023. Aspects of kinship in ancient Iran (Iran and the Ancient World). Oakland, [California]: University of California Press. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater...
View ArticleBulletin of the Asia Institute, 31
Volume 31 (2022-23) of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute has been published. Table of Contents
View ArticleSangtarashan, the Iron Age at the Pish Kuh of Luristan
Hashemi, Zahra, Mehrdad Malekzadeh & Ata Hasanpour. 2023. Sangtarashan, l’Âge du Fer au Pish Kuh du Luristan. Avec une étude “L’assemblage lithique de Sangtarashan” par Francesca Manclossi (Acta...
View ArticleZoroastrian Holy Marriage
Pirart, Éric. 2023. Hiérogamie mazdéenne. Présentation, texte, traduction et commentaire des deux dernières Gāϑā et de leurs annexes (uniés 51, 52, 53 et 54 du Yasna) (Supplementa 2). Girona: Sociedad...
View ArticleCyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship
Mitchell, Lynette. 2023. Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship. New York: Routledge. Cyrus the Great was a celebrity of the ancient world, the founder of one of the first world empires in the...
View ArticleInscriptions from Egypt
Jansen-Winkeln, Karl. 2023. Inschriften der Spätzeit Teil V: Die 27.–30. Dynastie und die Argeadenzeit. Band 1: Kambyses – Tachos. Band 2: Nektanebos II. – 4. Jahrhundert insgesamt. Wiesbaden:...
View ArticleZoroastrian Conversations
Prof. Yuhan Vevaina will be hosting the 3rd ‘Zoroastrian Conversations’ with Dr. Céline Redard, Lecturer for the Institute of History of Religions at the University of Strasbourg, France. Saturday, 07...
View ArticleThe 9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin) will deliver the the final three Ratanbai Katrak Lectures this autumn in Oxford. These lectures are convened by Prof. Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina...
View ArticleInnovation in Persian Period Judah
Middlemas, Jill. 2023. Innovation in Persian Period Judah: Royal and Temple Ideology in Its Ancient Near East Setting. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. This volume provides an overview of the attitude towards...
View ArticleThe Syriac Script at Turfan
Galatello, Martina. 2023. The Syriac Script at Turfan. First Soundings (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 90). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. This is the first...
View Article‘The Coals Which Were His Guardians…’:
Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw. 2022. ‘The coals which were his guardians…’: The hermeneutics of Heraclius’ Persian campaign and a faint trace of the ‘Last Great War’ in Zoroastrian literature. In Phil...
View ArticleThe Persian World and Beyond
Garrison, Mark B. & Wouter F.M. Henkelman (eds.). The Persian World and Beyond. Achaemenid and Arsacid Studies in Honor of Bruno Jacobs (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 6). Münster: Zaphon. The 17...
View ArticleStaging the Body of the Lord of the Sevenfold World
Canepa, Matthew P. 2023. Staging the Body of the Lord of the Sevenfold World. Methectic Spaces and Chiasmatic Viewing in Sasanian Iran. In Michele Bacci, Gohar Grigoryan & Manuela Studer-Karlen...
View ArticleExcavations and researches at Shahr-i Sokhta 3
Ascalone, Enrico & Seyyed Mansur Seyyed Sajjadi (eds.). 2022. Excavations and researches at Shahr-i Sokhta 3. Tehran: Pishin Pazhuh. The Iranian-Italian collaboration initiated with the 2016...
View ArticleHandbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies, vol. 3
Reden, Sitta von (ed.). 2023. Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange. Berlin: De Gruyter. The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian...
View ArticleImages of power and identities of Christians under Khusro I
Jullien, Christelle. 2023. Les liens du sol: Images du pouvoir et identités des chrétiens sous Khusro Ier (Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 63). Leuven: Peeters. The advent of Khusro I (531-579) heralded a...
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