Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.48.0.2184693
A. Devillers
{"title":"DID the arabian oryx occur in Iran","authors":"A. Devillers","doi":"10.2143/IA.48.0.2184693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.48.0.2184693","url":null,"abstract":"The Arabian Oryx is traditionally considered to have occurred in the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. No data suggest its presence east of the Euphrates and yet the species is occasionally found in the art of south-western and south-eastern Iran. The examples discussed come from glyptic material from Susa and from the chlorite vessels of the Jiroft region. These representations could be the indicator of small relict populations of Oryx trapped on the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf by the rise of sea levels in the early Holocene. The extinction in the wild of the Arabian Oryx, Oryx leucoryx, then its subsequent reintroduction, has attracted public and scholarly attention to the species. Its range is traditionally considered to be limited to the Ara- bian Peninsula and the Mesopotamian semi-desert steppes of Jordan, Syria and Iraq, east to the Euphrates, regions where it persisted until the 19 th cen- tury. No zoological or archaeozoological data indicate the presence of the","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.48.0.2184693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68058353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.48.0.2184703
B. Overlaet
{"title":"And man created God? Kings, priests and gods on Sasanian investiture reliefs","authors":"B. Overlaet","doi":"10.2143/IA.48.0.2184703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.48.0.2184703","url":null,"abstract":"An inscription on the Naqsh-i Rustam I rock relief identifies the two protagonists in the investiture scene as Ardashir I and Ahura Mazda. All investing authorities on the royal Sasanian reliefs are therefore commonly identified as Ahura Mazda. In view of conflicting historic information and unexplained variations in the iconography of “Ahura Mazda”, a re-interpretation of the investiture reliefs is made. The inscription on Ahura Mazda’s horse at Naqsh-i Rustam appears to have been added at the end of Ardashir’s reign or early in Shapur I’s reign and the earliest reliefs are now considered to depict an investiture by a priest, instead of by Ahura Mazda. Once the inscription had been added to the Naqsh-i Rustam I rock relief, it changed from an investiture by a priest to one by a god, Ahura Mazda. Iconographic details that conflicted with this transformation (such as the barsum, attendant and possibly the “royal” tamga) were left out of the divine image in later representations of the investiture on horseback. The late Sasanian Taq-i Bustan III investiture on foot, up to now considered to be the investiture of Khusrow II by Ahura Mazda and Anahita, is equally interpreted as an investiture by clergy, in this case by representatives of the cults of these two gods, rather than by the gods themselves.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"66 1","pages":"313-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.48.0.2184703","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68058254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.47.0.2141961
Sheler Amelirad, B. Overlaet, E. Haerinck
{"title":"The Iron age 'Zagros graveyard' near Sanandaj (Iranian Kurdistan): preliminary report on the first season","authors":"Sheler Amelirad, B. Overlaet, E. Haerinck","doi":"10.2143/IA.47.0.2141961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.47.0.2141961","url":null,"abstract":"An Iron Age graveyard, for the most part dating from the 8th - 7th century BC, was accidentally discovered in 2008 during road works near Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan. Rescue excavations were conducted by the Cultural Heritage Department in Sanandaj. The present contribution reports on these first excavations during which more than 20 graves were discovered in two squares and a trench. A selection of the graves and the burial goods are discussed.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"47 1","pages":"41-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.47.0.2141961","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68057592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.47.0.2141964
B. Overlaet
{"title":"AHURA MAZDA AND SHAPUR II? A NOTE ON TAQ-I BUSTAN I, THE INVESTITURE OF ARDASHIR II (379-383)","authors":"B. Overlaet","doi":"10.2143/IA.47.0.2141964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.47.0.2141964","url":null,"abstract":"The Taq-i Bustan I relief depicts Ardashir II (379-383 A.D.) receiving a beribboned ring from a person who is generally identified as either Ahura Mazda or as Shapur II. In the present note, it is suggested that the image is, however, a deliberate mixture of both personalities, created after the death of Shapur II. The relief postdates the smaller iwan with the depiction of both Ardashir II and Shapur II dressed as kings.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"47 1","pages":"133-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.47.0.2141964","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68058206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425
B. Overlaet
{"title":"Hidden in plain sight: the Hebrew inscription on Ardashir I's rock relief at Naqsh-i Rustam","authors":"B. Overlaet","doi":"10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","url":null,"abstract":"The relief of Ardashir I at Naqsh-i Rustam is the first Sasanian investiture scene with the two protagonists on horseback. They are identified by a prominent trilingual inscription on the horses as Ardashir I and Ahura Mazda. Another inscription remained up to now unobserved, however. It is chiselled on the folds of Ahura Mazda’s tunic.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"12 1","pages":"331-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68057526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.46.0.2084413
E. Haerinck
{"title":"Painted pottery of the first half of the early bronze age (late 4(TH): first centuries of the 3(RD) millennium BC) in Luristan, W-Iran","authors":"E. Haerinck","doi":"10.2143/IA.46.0.2084413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084413","url":null,"abstract":"The painted pottery of the first half of the Early Bronze Age in Luristan (Pusht-i Kuh and Pish-i Kuh) is rather badly documented. Most information comes from grave-contexts, although on the whole the information is limited. Two main categories are to be distinguished: a bichrome/polychrome as well as a monochrome group. There are distinct regions with a different pottery tradition. Evidence from Susa, Godin Tepe and other sites is included, as well as information provided by Mesopotamian sites. An attempt is being made to outline the regional diversity and a chronology is proposed.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"46 1","pages":"55-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68057191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.46.0.2084418
Patrick Monsieur, R. Boucharlat, E. Haerinck
{"title":"Amphores grecques timbrées découvertes à Suse (SO-Iran)","authors":"Patrick Monsieur, R. Boucharlat, E. Haerinck","doi":"10.2143/IA.46.0.2084418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084418","url":null,"abstract":"During his excavations, now more than fifty years ago, Roman Ghirshman has found in the area of the so called necropolis of the 'Ville des Artisans' at Susa, a few complete and fragmentary amphorae with stamped handles, most of them Rhodian. Another Rhodian stamp was uncovered during his excavations at the Apadana. They are to be situated in the last quarter of the 3(rd)/first quarter of the 2(nd) century BC and can now be added to the known corpus of amphorae stamps found in numerous parts in the Near East. A complete amphora is likely to bear two unique types of stamps, one of them mentioning almost certainly the eponym Pi O lambda upsilon kappa rho alpha tau eta zeta and turns out to be an important addition to the general corpus of (early) Rhodian stamps. Because of the recent developments in the study of the chronology of Rhodian stamps (the \"chronologie basse\" of Gerald Finkielsztejn), two more examples from Susa found by Roland de Mecquenem and previously published by Franz Cumont are equally reconsidered. However, all together they seem to be among the rare stamped amphorae that have been found so far in Iran.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"46 1","pages":"161-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68057354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranica AntiquaPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.2143/IA.46.0.2084415
Katrien De Graef
{"title":"The silence of the lambs to be plucked or not in Susa","authors":"Katrien De Graef","doi":"10.2143/IA.46.0.2084415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084415","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the possibilities how to read and interpret the expression NUMUN NU IR RA, used to designate a specific kind of lamb in MDP 55, 80: 3-4, 9-10, 15-16 and 21-22, a text from Susa dating from the beginning of the Sukkalmahat, are explored. By means of parallel or similar attestations from early Mesopotamia we try to analyse and comprehend the expression sign by sign. A corrected transliteration of MDP 55, 80 is given.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"46 1","pages":"133-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68057296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}