Tag: Sasanian
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Graffito from Dura-Europos
Wójcikowski, Robert S. 2013. The graffito from Dura-Europos: Hybrid armor in Parthian-Sasanian Iran. Anabasis 4. 233–248. Read the article here. Abstract: The graffito from Dura-Europos depicting a heavily armored cavalryman is one of the most important sources used to reconstruct the armament of Iranian cavalry units seen in the middle of the third century A.D.…
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Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
Herman, Geoffrey (ed.). 2014. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians: Religious dynamics in a Sasanian context (Judaism in Context 17). Gorgias Press. For the table of contents and more info, see here.
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Secrecy and canonisation
Bahari Lecture Series: “Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity” 20 May (Week 4) Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews): Secrecy and canonisation in Sasanian Iran: A scholastic reading of the Zand Tuesday at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford (OCLA)
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Bahari lecture series
Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity Tuesdays of Weeks 2–9 of Trinity Term 2014 at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’ The lectures are convened by Professor Touraj Daryaee and Professor Edmund Herzig and organised by the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA). The full programme is here.
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The Sasanian Empire as a garden
The Sasanian Empire as a garden: The limits of Iranshahr Speaker: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 22 May 2014 Poster at the BIPS.
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Public lecture II
2. The Sasanian Empire and religious authority: The case of Zoroastrianism As one of the major political and economic powers in the region, the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) elevated Zoroastrianism to the dominant religious and cultural force within its polity, bringing to the foreground the question of the interaction between religion and sovereignty in the…
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The Sasanian Empire as a garden
The Sasanian empire as a garden: The walls and rivers of the Sasanian Empire This lecture by Touraj Daryaee (UCI) looks at the physical and ideological boundaries which the Sasanians created for the idea of Iranshahr. In this late antique construct, inside the empire, protected by walls and rivers was imagined as a garden where…
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Markets for land
Rezakhani, Khodadad & Michael Morony. 2014. Markets for land, labour and capital in late antique Iraq, AD 200-700. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 57. 231–261. Read the article here. Abstract: Lack of direct evidence on the functioning of factor markets in Sasanian/Late Antique Iraq makes it difficult to present a…
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A Sasanian chariot
Shenkar, Michael. 2013. A Sasanian chariot drawn by birds and the iconography of Sraosha. In Sergei Tokhtasev & Pavel Lurje (eds.), Commentationes Iranicae. Vladimiro f. Aaron Livschits nonagenario donum natalicium, 211–223. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia. Read the article here.
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The Iranian Talmud
Secunda, Shai. 2013. The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian context. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. For the book, see here. Short abstract: Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been…
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A goddess or a queen?
Shenkar, Michael. 2013. A goddess or a queen? On the interpretation of the female figure on the relief of Narseh at Naqš-e Rostam (in Russian). In Scripta Antiqua, vol. 3: Edward Rtveladze felicitation volume. Moscow. Read there article here. Abstract: The article offers a reassessment of the identity of the female figure found on the…