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Author Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta

Title The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires : adaptation and expansion
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; HISTORICAL; 1 Some Aspects of Political History: Early Arsacid Kings and the Seleucids; 2 The Arsacids and Commagene; 3 Dynastic Connections in the Arsacid Empire and the Origins of the House of Sāsān; 4 From Terror to Tactical Usage: Elephants in the Partho-Sasanian Period; 5 Remarks on the Location of the Province of Parthia in the Sasanian Period; 6 The Birth of the Sasanian Monarchy in Western Sources; 7 Kirder and the Re-organisation of Persian Mazdeism; LINGUISTIC; 8 The Parthian Language in Early Sasanian Times
9 From Aramaic to Pahlavi: Epigraphic Observations Based on the Persis Coin Series10 Parthian Studies: Two New Notes; ARCHAEOLOGICAL; 11 A Note on Architectural Traditions in Arsacid Parthia: The Round Hall at Nisa; 12 Women, Dance and the Hunt: Splendour and Pleasures of Court Life in Arsacid and Early Sasanian Art; NUMISMATICS; 13 Quantifying Monetary Production: Ecbatana and Media in Parthian Times; 14 The Coinages of Paradan and Sind in the Context of Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian Numismatics
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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
Parthians
Sassanids
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- To 640 -- Congresses
Iran -- History -- 640-1256 -- Congresses
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Alram, Michael
Daryaee, Touraj
Pendleton, Elizabeth
ISBN 9781785702082
1785702084