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Title The Parthian and early Sasanian empires : adaptation and expansion : proceedings of a conference held in Vienna, 14-16 June 2012 / edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth J. Pendleton, Michael Alram and Touraj Daryaee
Published Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (x, 132 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Archaeological monographs series ; 5
British Institute of Persian Studies archaeological monographs series ; 5.
Contents Historical -- Some aspects of political history : early Arsacid kings and the Seleucids / Jérôme Gaslain -- The Arsacids and Commagene / Rahim Shayegan -- Dynastic connections in the Arsacid empire and the origins of the house of Sasan / Marek Jan Olbrycht -- From terror to tactical usage : elephants in the Partho-sasanian period / Touraj Daryaee -- Remarks on the location of the province of Parthia in the Sasanian period / Mehrdad Ghodrat-Dizaji -- The birth of the Sasanian monarchy in western sources / Andrea Gariboldi -- Kirder and the re-organisation of Persian Mazdeism / Antonio Panaino -- Linguistic -- The Parthian language in early Sasanian times / Rika Gyselen -- From Aramaic to Pahlavi : epigraphic observations based on the Persis coin series / Khodadad Rezakhani -- Parthian studies : two new notes / Daryoosh Akbarzadeh -- Archaeological -- A note on architectural traditions in Arsacid Parthia : the round hall at Nisa / Antonio Invernizzi -- Women, dance and the hunt : splendour and pleasures of court life in Arsacid and early sasanian art / Barbara Kaim -- Numismatics -- Quantifying monetary production : ecbatana and media in Parthian times / Pierre-Yves Boillet -- The coinages of Paradan and Sind in the context of Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian numismatics / Nikolaus Schindel
Notes Papers presented at a conference held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 14-16 June 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2017)
Subject Arsacid dynasty, 247 B.C.-224 A.D. -- Congresses
SUBJECT Arsacid dynasty, 247 B.C.-224 A.D. fast
Subject Parthians -- Congresses
Sassanids -- Congresses
Coins, Parthian -- Congresses
Coins, Sassanid -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Civilization.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Coins, Parthian
Coins, Sassanid
Parthians
Sassanids
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- To 640 -- Congresses
Iran -- History -- 640-1256 -- Congresses
Iran -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, editor
Pendleton, Elizabeth J., editor
Alram, Michael, editor
Daryaee, Touraj, 1967- editor.
LC no. 2016021369
ISBN 9781785702082
1785702084
9781785702105
1785702106
1785702076
9781785702075