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Sasanian Administrations and Officials

Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2024. Administrations et préposés d’époque sassanide. Nouvelles données à la mémoire de Philippe Gignoux (Cahiers de Studica Iranica 66). Paris: Association pour l’Avancement des études iraniennes.

This volume brings together studies based on primary sources, often unpublished, which highlight important aspects of the administration of the Sasanian Empire. Some complete our knowledge on the territorial establishment of the various administrations and of the mints, others deal with the actors of these institutions such as the magi and the scribes. The sources used are mainly seals and seal impressions on clay bullae.

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Table of Contents

  • Rika Gyselen: La géographie administrative de l’empire sassanide: données sigillographiques. Addenda et corrigenda
  • Rika Gyselen: Abréviations administratives et sigles monétaires sassanides
  • Rika Gyselen avec le concours de Sahar Foroozanpour: “Sceaux de mages sassanides à critère chronologique”
  • Rika Gyselen and Eduard Khurshudian: “The Sasanian dibīr
  • Rika Gyselen and Aliasghar Noruzi: “Wīrōy, a ‘Grandee’ of the Sasanian empire: a sigillary testimony”
  • Christelle Jullien et Florence Jullien: “Réflexions toponymiques. Géographie historique de l’empire sassanide dans les sources syro-orientales du VIe siècle”
  • Eduard Khurshudian: “New readings and identification of two toponyms on Sasanian administrative sealimpressions: Bāzāhē and Marz<-ī>Zangāvan”
  • Cyrus Nasrollahzadeh and Mehdi Abedini Iraqi: “A ‘Sasanian’ administrative clay sealing discovered in the Espahbed Xvōršīd cave (Mazanderān)
  • Aliasghar Noruzi with the collaboration of Rika Gyselen: Two Sasanian administrative Sealings at the Shahrekord Archeological Museum”
  • Hamlet Petrosyan with the collaboration of Rika Gyselen and Eduard Khurshusian: “An administrative sealing of the ōstāndār of Ardān discovered in Tigranakert (Artsakh)”