Bibliographia Iranica

A predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies

Category: Journal

  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute 32

    Volume 32 (2024-2025) of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute (New Series) has been published.

    Table of contents:

    • Robert Rollinger and Josef Wiesehöfer: Designating the King in the Womb of His Mother: From Assyrian through Sasanian Times
    • M. Rahim Shayegan: Rethinking the Achaemenid World Order: Space, Religion, and Communicative Strategies
    • Fabrizio Sinisi: On the Early History of the Image of Mithra in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands
    • Anca Dan and Frantz Grenet: The Triumph of Dionysus and Heracles on a Gold Tray from Datong (Pingcheng, Capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, 398–494 CE)
    • Samra Azarnouche: The “Ḵosrow Cup”: Looking anew into the Persian Grail
    • Frantz Grenet: Two Newly Identified Šāhnāme Stories in Panjakent Paintings
    • Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani: Iranian Rock Crystal
  • Iran (2025 & 2026)

    Iran (2025 & 2026)

    Among the papers published in the journal Iran over the past two years, the following deal with various aspects of ancient Iran:

    • Mozhgan Jayez & Roghayeh Rahimi Sorkhani: The flaked stone assemblage of Soha Chay Tepe and the chalcolithic chipped stone industries of the Zagros Region
    • Zohreh Zehbari: The men who wrought the metals: On Achaemenid-era metalworkers based on the Persepolis tablets
    • Ali A. Vahdati, Raffaele Biscione, Roberto Dan & Marie-Claude Trémouille: Grave 12 at Chalow: The Burial of a Young Lady of the “Greater Khorasan Civilization”
    • A. Mani Irannejad: The Indo-Iranian Approach to Greater Iran
    • Gad Barnea: Some Achaemenid Zoroastrian Echoes in Early Yahwistic Sources
    • Marco Fattori & Marco F. Ferrari: Zeus Pharnauas and Persian Mazdaism in Cappadocia
    • Farzaneh Tajabadi: Persian Loanwords in Qurʾānic Arabic
    • Nolwen Rol, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lisa Wolff-Heger, Hassan Akbari, Morteza Hessari, Susan Pollock & Daniel Schäfer: Chalcolithic Painted Pottery of the Sialk III Period: Quantifying Stylistic Continuities and Changes on the Northern Central Plateau
    • A. Mani Irannejad: The Old Avesta and Birth of Iranian Identity
    • Behrouz Khanmohammadi, Annarita Stefania Bonfanti & Roberto Dan: A New Decorated Bronze Belt from Orumiyeh Region, North-Western Iran
    • Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Reza Naseri, Somaye Boroomandara, Andrea Cesaretti & Roberto Dan: Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavation at the Achaemenid Period (Iron Age IV) Cemetery in Mersin, Semnan Province, Iran
    • Rhyne King: Trips to the King, Taxation, and the New Year in the Persepolis Fortification Archive
    • Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki: Discovering a Fire Temple in Qalʿe-ye Dokhtar of Bazeh Hur and Some Remarks on Ādur Burzēn-Mihr
    • Fatemeh Karimi & Abed Taghavi: Zoroastrians in the Economy of Yazd During the Qajar and Pahlavi I Dynasties

  • Journal of Iranian Linguistics

    Journal of Iranian Linguistics

    The Journal of Iranian Linguistics (JIL) is a platform uniting scholars worldwide to explore Iranian linguistic diversity. With a commitment to interdisciplinary discourse, JIL covers syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language acquisition. The user-friendly website, part of Yerevan State University’s journal system, ensures easy access to high-quality, diverse research. Join us in propelling Iranian linguistics to new heights!

    The latest issue (Vol. 3, Issue 1) is now available here.

    Table of contents:

    • Tereza Amryan: “Black Day, White Face”: Color Terms in Kurmanji Kurdish Phraseology
    • Hakob Avchyan: Who Owns What? Possessive Constructions in Northern Talyshi (Anbarāni and Lankarāni Dialects)
    • Noonik Darbinyan: Identifying Daš Maštis in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema: A Linguistic-Semiotic Study
    • Youli A. Ioannesyan: The Position of the Verbal Derivational Prefixes in the Sentence as a Distinguishing Feature of Persian Dialects from Other South-Western Iranian Dialects
    • Enrico Morano: Two Fragments from a Middle Persian Codex in Manichaean Script with Hymns to the Sun God and to Mani

  • Ancient West & East 24

    The new volume of Ancient West & East (2025) is out and contains several relevant studies pertaining to ancient Iran:

    • Julian DEGEN: Argead Macedonia in the Western Borderland of the Achaemenid Empire
    • Roberto DAN: The Hişet Fortress in (V)ostan/Gevaş An Urartian, Orontid, Arsacid and Mediaeval Site on the Southern Shore of Lake Van
    • Arvin MAGHSOUDLOU: A Palace Built into a Mountain Exploring the Modes of Audience Interaction and Reception at the Great Ayvan of Taq-e Bustan in Late Antiquity
  • Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 50

    Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 50

    Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 50, 2018 [2026], ed. by German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Tehran Branch of the Eurasia Department, is now pubished.

    Table of Contents:

    • Articles:
    • Morteza Zamani Dadaneh, Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian and Steve Renette: Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic Settlements on the Marivan Plain of western Iran
    • Elena Rova, Davit Kvavadze, Flavia Amato, Elisabetta Boaretto, Giovanni Boschian, Giovanni Siracusano and Laura Tonetto: Tsiteli Gorebi 5, a New Early Chalcolithic Site in Eastern Georgia, Results of the 2018-2019 Excavations by the “Georgian-Italian Lagodekhi Archaeological Project”
    • Behzad Hoseyni Sarbisheh: A brief report of the rescue excavation at Kuy-e Keyvan Tepe in the Azna Plain, Lorestan, Iran
    • Rouhollah Shirazi, Zahra Jalali and Siamak Sarlak : Roudān’s Cultural interactions with neighboring regions in the Bronze Age based on excavations at Tom-e Māroun
    • Enrico Ascalone: The Bronze Age Oxus-Jiroft-Elam Integrated Cultural System
    • Steffen Kraus, Ahmadzhon Sh. Ahmedshaev, Hamza A. Saipov and Nikolaus Boroffka: On the Use of Uzbek Copper Ores in the Prehistory of Central Asia
    • Mehrdad Ghodrat-Dizaji: The Collapse of Sasanian Central and Provincial Authority (AD 623-633): Literary and Numismatic Evidence
    • Ara Avagyan, Tim Kinnaird, Achim Lichtenberger, Lilit Sahakyan, Torben Schreiber and Mkrtich H. Zardaryan: Evidence of a historical earthquake in Artaxata-Artashat in the Ararat Basin of Armenia
    • Hans-Ulrich Seidt und Paul Bucherer-Dietschi: Die Buddhas von Bamiyan: Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen. Der Nachlass von Edmund Melzl (1937-2015) in der Stiftung BIBLIOTHECA AFGHANICA.
    • Nachruf / Obituary
    • In Memoriam Wolfram Kleiss (Stephan Kroll)
    • In Erinnerung an Michaeil N. Fedorov (Alexander M. Kamishev)
    • Buchbesprechungen / Reviews
    • Arzhantseva Khorezm (Nikolaus Boroffka)
    • Zwei neue Grundlagen-Publikationen zur Archaologie Afghanistans (Nikolaus Boroffka)

  • East and West (vol. 65)

    East and West (vol. 65)

    The latest volume of East and West contains several interesting articles, some of which deal with aspects of (ancient) Iran.

    • F. Grenet, F. Ory, A Preliminary Note on a Painting from Kuh-e Khwāja in the New Delhi National Museum
    • E. Matin, Reaching the Persian Gulf from the Kur River Basin: Patterns of an Intermittent Connectivity
    • S. Belelli, Contact Change and Dialect Convergence in the Kurdish of Khanaqin
    • E. Morano, E. Shavarebi, Irano-Semitica minora: 1. Gaza, 2. wādī
    • M. Labbaf-Khaniki, The Last Image of the Last King: A Sasanian Scene from the Bāzeh Hūr Fire Temple
  • Studia Iranica (53/1)

    Studia Iranica (53/1)

    The first issue of Studia Iranica 53 is out. Here is the table of contents:

    • BELELLI, Sara: Laki Nominal Morphology in Historical and Comparative Perspective
    • BORJIAN, Habib: Southern Kurdish in the Anti-Alborz: A Case of Language Isolation
    • PREUD’HOMME, Nicolas: The Fall of Safavid Power According to an Anonymous Manuscript from Post-Revolutionary France
  • Parthica (vol. 27)

    Parthica (vol. 27)

    Volume 27 of the journal Parthica (2025) contains several contributions of relevance to Iranian Studies and beyond:

    • R. DAN: An Urartian or Orontid foundation? A reassessment of the archaeological data related to the establishment of the fortified complex at Yervandashat, Armenia
    • D. ANDREUCCI: Automated segmentation of historical archaeological photographs: A CNN-based approach applied to the Tachara palace of Persepolis
    • G. LINDSTRÖM: The Denavar Vase: Parthian patronage, Greek aesthetics, and Roman luxury
    • K. ABDULLAEV: The image of spring from Bactria. Stone statuette of a female figure from the Termez Archaeological Museum
    • S. MIGLIOLI: Polybius’ Parthia: Environment and imagery in the earliest Roman-Era account of an expedition into the Iranian world
    • F. SOLAT: Nibušt: A Parthian toponym in the Škz inscription and its identification with Naqš-e Rostam
    • L.M. OLIVIERI – S. BAUMS – O. COLORU: Senavarma and the century of the Odirajas (1st cent. CE). Archaeological, Epigraphical, and Historical Notes

  • Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (vol. 31)

    The volume 31 of the journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia contains several contributions that engage directly with an Iranian context.

  • Ancient Jewish Memories of Achaemenid Persia

    Joachimsen, Kristin & Jason S. Mokhtarian (eds.). 2025. Ancient Jewish Memories of Achaemenid Persia (The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 25).

    Several contributions in the special issue of The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, titled Ancient Jewish Memories of Achaemenid Persia, engage directly with the Persian context. The volume is available in open access.