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Abstract
This article reexamines and reassesses some of the pertinent materials, contexts, and historical documents relating to ritual fires, altars, and temples in ancient Iran. It attempts to clarify designations and functions in terms of chronology, identification, and usage.
期刊介绍:
Iranica Antiqua is one of the leading scholarly journals covering studies on the civilization of pre-Islamic Iran in its broadest sense. This annual publication, edited by the Department for Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Gent University, Belgium, contains preliminary excavation reports, contributions on archaeological problems, studies on different aspects of history, institutions, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and history of art of ancient Iran, as well as on cultural exchanges and relations between Iran and its neighbours.