xiv, 217 pages illustrations, plans, portrait 24 cm
Type:
Books
Festschriften
History
Place:
Iran
Date:
2020
To 640
Jusqu'à 651
Notes:
Festschrift for Terence Mitchell
Contents:
Introduction / John Curtis -- 1. Five unpublished Persepolis relief fragments in the Ashmolean Museum / Paul Collins -- 2. Where did the Persian kings live in Babylon? / John Curtis -- 3. The use of seals in Babylonia under the Achaemenids / Christopher Walker -- 4. An Iranian in the court of King Nebuchadnezzar / Alan Millard -- 5. Biblical archaeology in the Persian period / Terence Mitchell -- 6. The textual connections between the Cyrus cylinder and the Bible, with particular reference to Isaiah / Shahrokh Razmjou -- 7. Interpreting Sasanian beards : significant images in an interconnected world / Prudence Harper -- 8. Sasanian-Zoroastrian intellectual life in the fifth and sixth centuries AD / Mahnaz Moazami
Summary:
A collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Persians established control over the whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian Empire. Paul Collins writes about stone relief carvings from Persepolis; John Curtis and Christopher Walker illuminate the Achaemenid period in Babylon; Terence Mitchell, Alan Millard and Shahrokh Razmjou draw attention to neglected aspects of biblical archaeology and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and Mahnaz Moazami and Prudence Harper explore the Sasanian period in Iran (AD 250-650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion