{"title":"Contributions to Iranian Etymology II","authors":"Marco Fattori","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02803005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02803005","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the possible Iranian etymology of three hitherto unexplained Old Armenian words is discussed: Arm. <jats:italic>aptak</jats:italic> ‘slap, blow’ < Ir. *<jats:italic>apitāka</jats:italic>-, to be compared with Man.Parth. and <jats:sc>MP</jats:sc> <jats:italic>abdāg</jats:italic> ‘assailant’; Arm. <jats:italic>žapawēn</jats:italic> ‘hem, border’ compound of Parth. *<jats:italic>žī(h)</jats:italic>, equivalent of <jats:sc>NP</jats:sc> <jats:italic>zeh</jats:italic> ‘string, hem, decoration’ + Arm. <jats:italic>apawēn</jats:italic> ‘cover, shelter, refuge’; Arm. <jats:italic>xawsim</jats:italic> ‘to speak’ from a metathetic form of MIr. *<jats:italic>wā̆xs</jats:italic>-, inchoative formation from the root *<jats:italic>vac</jats:italic>- ‘to speak’. Finally, Szemerényi’s convincing explanation of Arm. <jats:italic>awgnem</jats:italic> ‘to help’ and <jats:italic>zawravign</jats:italic> ‘aid, helper, defender’ as related to an OIr. noun *<jats:italic>abigna</jats:italic>- ‘helper’ attested in several anthroponyms (e.g. <jats:sc>OP</jats:sc> <jats:italic>Bagābigna</jats:italic>-) is reaffirmed and substantiated since it remained mostly unnoticed in the subsequent literature.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hedayatollah Khan and the Gulgakh Canal","authors":"Daniel T. Potts","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02803002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02803002","url":null,"abstract":"The present article republishes a forgotten, eyewitness account of a canal built by the Gilaki ruler, Hedayatollah Khan, c. 1776. Written by the German physician Julius Cäsar Häntzsche, who was shown the remains of the canal in 1855, the account sheds light on the career of a contemporary of Karim Khan Zand and Agha Mohammad Khan, and on the environment of the southwestern Caspian region, particularly the Anzali lagoon.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The St. Ełiše (Elisaeus) Church and the Sanctuary of Kyomrad in Nij","authors":"Lilit Simonyan, Anushavan Zhamkochyan, Karen Hovhannisyan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02803004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02803004","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents traditions of the village Nij associated with the enlightener of Albania St. Ełiše (Elisaeus) and his disciple-martyrs. The festival occasions are provided in a diachronic reality indicating gradual but rapid changes in the religious life of the village and the significant role of the Saint’s figure and sanctuaries dedicated to him for the maintenance of the identity of Udis. In addition, some new archival materials are used.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeological Analysis of the Two Spearheads from the Territory of Medieval Armenia","authors":"Dmytro Dymydyuk","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02803001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02803001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an overview of two archeological finds of spearheads from Ani (in the form of a trident with a central straight prong and two side curved hooks) and Dvin (long and heavy spearhead, oval in form, flat in section with round socket). Well-known Byzantine, Georgian, Kyivan Rus’, and Muslim Near East archeological, pictorial, and figurative sources will be compared to elucidate the purpose, dating, and origin of the above-mentioned spearheads.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Philological Notes on the Inscription of Meher Kapısı","authors":"Annarita S. Bonfanti","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present contribution aims at providing the most complete possible translation and commentary of several debated passages of the Urartian inscription of Meher Kapısı (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">CTU A</span> 3–1), based both on new readings and interpretations proposed by scholars in recent years, and on a comparative analysis which made use of the Neo-Assyrian and the Hurrian languages as parallels for the Urartian one. While this is not intended as a definitive version of the text, which is surely further debatable and subjected to other interpretations, the translation and commentary offered here aim at bringing together some of the discussions around this inscription conducted in the last years, offering some further insights from a philological perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Glance on Women’s Democratic Organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran","authors":"Elaheh Koolaee, Fahimeh Khansari Fard, Fatemeh Beyranvand","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The formation of new organizational activities with different approaches was one of the consequences of the events of September 1941 and after. The Women’s Democratic Organization (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">WDO</span>) affiliated to the Tudeh Party (<em>Ḥezb-e-tūde</em>) was one of these new organizational activities. This study employs the historical-descriptive and content analysis approaches to investigate the historical aspects of <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">WDO</span>. The authors state that the opposition of traditional groups, the re-emergence of political repression, and the acceptance of the Tudeh Party ideology led to the failure of the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">WDO</span> to achieve its goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nādir Šāh’s Decree Issued at the Request of the Armenian Merchants of Agulis","authors":"Kristine Kostikyan, Gor Margaryan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article presents the publication of an unknown decree of Nādir Šāh issued in December 1742/January 1743 at the request of the Armenian merchants of Agulis. It examines the taxes levied from the merchants and the ways of tax extortion and excesses committed by Nādir Šāh’s administration in that period. The article contains a short review of the historical background of the document, the economic situation in the Nādir Šāh’s empire including Agulis.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Kushan Bactrian Ablative-Instrumental Case","authors":"Julian Kreidl","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present paper argues for the existence of an ablative-instrumental case in Kushan Bactrian with the endings -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">α</styled-content> (from original a-stems) and -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">να</styled-content> ~ -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">νο</styled-content> (from the Old Iranian pronominal declension). While the corpus is small and many details remain unknown or speculative, there are enough such case forms to show that the Kushan Bactrian case system is more archaic than often thought. It further becomes clear from the examples that the ablative-instrumental case had largely two functions: Several times it is used a prepositional case and, once, to mark the ergative agent of a transitive past tense verb. The existence of an ablative-instrumental in Bactrian as such, its endings and its functions have good parallels in other Middle and New Iranian languages spoken in the region, and should therefore not be too surprising for the Bactrian language of the 2nd century <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">A.D.</span></p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Armenian Monastic Elites Harnessing the ‘Turkmen’ State?: I. Layout, Text, and Textual Commentary of the Armenian Inscription at Arcowaber (1420 A.D. or Earlier)","authors":"Georg Leube","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents the all-but-lost Armenian inscription ostensibly recording an order from the last years of the Qaraquyunlu ‘Turkmen’ ruler <em>qara</em> Yūsuf (d. 1420 <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">A.D.</span>) at the church of the monastery of Arcowaber, now located in the center of the village of Salmanağa (Erciş, Van) in Turkey. A subsequent article discusses the date of the inscription together with its historical context and function. The present contribution establishes the layout and form of the text, including an extensive commentary of its terminology and content.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Righteousness is Good: A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran","authors":"Yousef Moradi, Almut Hintze","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper discusses a Sasanian sealstone discovered in 2014 at the archaeological site of Yarim Tepe in Khorasan, northeastern Iran. Although a surface find, the fact that this sealstone is provenanced is significant because this sets it apart from thousands of unprovenanced Sasanian sealstones which, coming from the antiquities market, are held in museums and private collections around the globe. The seal shows a bust in profile and an inscription that arcs above the bust from shoulder to shoulder. Through a stylistic analysis, we date the seal to the 3rd–4th century <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">CE</span>. The article offers a new reading and interpretation of the inscription and argues that the image shows a conventional portrait rather than a specific individual.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}