Tag: Pahlavi Documents

Middle Persian Papyri, Ostraca and Parchments: An Introduction
Zeini, Arash. 2018. Middle Persian papyri, ostraca and parchments: An introduction. Sasanika Papyrological Studies , No. 1.
This essay discusses the state of Middle Persian papyrological, ostraca and parchments studies since its beginning to the present. Dr. Zeini presents a history of the discovery of the Sasanian papyri from Egypt in the nineteenth century, to the new archival finds on the Iranian Plateau which sheds light on the legal and economic history of late antique Iran.
This introductory article is the first issue in the newly launched Sasanika Papyrological Studies and will be followed by a revision of three papyri by Dieter Weber.
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27/01/2018
Sasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive
Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2017. Sasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive. (Res Orientales 26). Bures sur Yvette: Groupe d’Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient.
Table of Contents:
- Rika Gyselen; Malek Iradj Mochiri together with Hendrik Hameeuw: “Une collection de monnaies sassanides de billon, de cuivre et de plomb”
- Rüdiger Schmidt: “Zu Lesung und Interpretation sasanidischer Monogramme”
- Alicia Van Ham-Meert; Bruno Overlaet; Philippe Claeys and Patrick Degryse: “The Use of micro-XRF for the elemental analysis of Sasanian lead coins from the collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels”The Tabarestan archive (VIIIth century)
- Dieter Weber: “Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan on Lease, Loan and Compensation: A Philological Study”
- Maria Macuch: “Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan on Lease, Loan and Compensation: The Juristic Context”
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19/12/2017
Iranian, Manichaean and Central Asian Studies in Memoriam Sundermann
Herausgegeben von einem Team „Turfanforschung“. 2017. Zur lichten Heimat. Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann (Iranica 25). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Werner Sundermann’s central research subject was the Middle Iranian fragments from Turfan oasis in East Turkistan, today’s Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. He always placed his texts in a philological, linguistic, or religious-historical context. The findings of these studies have extended far beyond Iranian studies to include the history of Central Asia, Iranian and Indo-European studies and literary history as well as to Turkology and Buddhist studies.
The memorandum contains more than fifty contributions on Minichaean, Iranian and Central Asian Studies, as well as other neighboring fields. Among others, some new text fragments from the Turfan region, Dunhuang and Iran are for the first time edited and presented. Furthermore new studies on the sources of Central Asian origin and the Greek-Roman and Persian cultural areas are introduced and individual phenomena of languages or religions are analyzed.
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06/09/2017
Iranian Philology in Honour of Gherardo Gnoli
Morano, Enrico, Elio Provasi & Adriano V. Rossi (eds.). 2017. Studia Philologica Iranica. Gherardo Gnoli Memorial Volume. (Serie Orientale Roma, Nuova Serie 5). Roma: Scienze e Lettere S.r.l.
Table of Contents
- M. Alram: “Ein Schatzfund des Hunnen-Königs Mihirakula”
- G. Asatrian: “Middle Iranian Lexical Archaisms in Armenian Dialects”
- H.R. Baghbidi: “Three Etymological Notes”
- C.G. Cereti: “A Short Note on MHDA 38”
- J. Cheung: “On the Origin of the Terms “Afghan” & “Pashtun” (Again)”
- C.A. Ciancaglini: “Phonology, Etymology and Transcription Issues of Middle Persian Final Sequences ‹-lg› and ‹-lkꞌ›”
- I. Colditz: “Another Fragment of the “Parable on the Female Hearer Xybrʾ”?”
- M. Dandamayev: “Indian Soldiers in Achaemenid Babylonia”
- A. de Jong: “The Women Who Witnessed Zoroaster’s Birth”
- D. Durkin-Meisterernst: “Yima’s anādruxti-“
- E. Filippone: “On the Meaning of Avestan nāuuiia– and Pahlavi *nāydāg“
- Ph. Gignoux: “Sur les noms de personnes et quelques particularités linguistiques d’une nouvelle collection privée de parchemins pehlevis”
- R. Gyselen: “Formules moyen-perses et monogrammes sassanides”
- A. Hintze: “The Advance of the Daēnā: The Vištāsp Yašt and an Obscure Word in the Hāδōxt Nask“
- H. Humbach: “Zarathushtra and the Balance”
- J. Josephson: “The Pahlavi Psalter as a Translation”
- J. Kellens: “Les Gâthâs dites de Zarathusthra“
- G. Lazard: “Les racines de la langue persane”
- P. Lecoq: “Le -a final en vieux perse”
- C. Leurini: “The Virgins and the Bride: Matt. 25:1 in the Manichaean Middle Persian Fragment M36”
- P.B. Lurje: “More on Sogdian Versification: Translated and Original Compositions“
- M. Macuch: “A Legal Controversy from the Sasanian Period in a Late Pahlavi Rivāyat Text”
- M. Maggi: “Annotations on the Book of Zambasta, IV: Ronald E. Emmerick’s Notes”
- E. Morano: “The Jackals and the Elephant: A Manichaean Sogdian Tale in Manichaean Script. With an Appendix with Corrections to Previously Edited Fragments of Tales“
- É. Pirart: “Les Soleils de l’Avesta”
- A. Piras: “X˅arǝnah– and the Garlands. Notes about the Avestan and Manichaean Yima“
- E. Provasi: “Some Notes on Sogdian Phonology: Prothetic Aleph and Labialised Velars”
- Ch. Reck: “Form and Emptiness: A Fragment of a Sogdian Version of the Heart Sutra?”
- A.V. Rossi: “Ten Years of Achaemenid Philology: Old Persian &
  Achaemenid Elamite 2006-2016”
- G. Scarcia: “Alla ricerca di un Ur-Farhâd: Hercules patiens, magnetico signor dottore, scalpellino, feldmaresciallo mecenate?”
- R. Schmitt: “Der Flußgott Oxos in der iranischen Anthroponymie”
- M. Schwartz: “An Achaemenid Position, and Gathic Composition:
  OPers. *grasta-(pati-), OAv. grə̄hma-, and PIE √gʰres“
- Sh. Shaked: “Zoroastrian Views on Suffering”
- N. Sims-Williams: “The Name of the Kushan Goddess Ομμα”
- P.O. Skjærvø: “Khotanese Land Purchase Deeds”
- D. Weber: “Bemerkungen zu einigen Personennamen in den neuen Dokumenten aus Tabaristan”
- G. Windfuhr: “The Enigmatic kurušag Ewe that Nursed Infant Zarathushtra, and the Precession of the Equinoxes”
- E. Yarshater: “Tāti Dialects”
- Y. Yoshida: “A Manichaean Middle Persian Fragment Preserved in the Kyōushooku Library, Osaka, Japan”
- P. Zieme: “Ein altuigurisches Fragment zur manichäischen Ethik”
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04/04/2017
Sasanian Objects and the Tabarestan Archive
Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2016. Words and symbols. Sasanian objects and the Tabarestan archive (Res Orientales 24). Leuven: Peeters Publishers.Table of Contents:
- Carlo G. Cereti; Zohre Bassiri: “On a Few Sasanian Bullae from the Collections of the National Museum of Iran”
- Rika Gyselen: “Sasanidische Siegelsteine de P. Horn et G. Steindorf revisité”
- Ursula Weber: “The Inscription of Abnun and its Dating to the Early Days of Shabuhr I”
Tabarestan Archive (8th cent.)
- Dieter Weber: “Court Records of Lawsuits in Tabarestan in the Year 86/7 PYE (737 CE): A Philological Examination”
- Maria Macuch: “The Legal Context of the Tabarestan Court Records (Tab. 1-8, 10)”
- Philippe Gignoux: “Une archive post-sassanide du Tabarestan (III)”
- Dieter Weber: “Two Documents from Tabarestan Reconsidered (Tab. 12 and 26)”
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21/11/2016

Studia Iranica 45(1)

The first issue of Studia Iranica 45 (2016) has been published. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page.

7 – 15 –	Unité et diversité du rite avestique KELLENS, Jean	abstract details download pdf
17 – 38 –	Zāwulistān, Kāwulistān and the Land Bosi On the Question of a Sasanian Court-in-Exile in the Southern Hindukush AGOSTINI, Domenico, STARK, Sören	abstract details download pdf
39 – 52 –	A Unique Pahlavi Papyrus from Vienna (P.Pehl. 562) ZEINI, Arash	abstract details download pdf
53 – 64 –	A Pamir Cereal Name in Medieval Greek Sources WITCZAK, Krzysztof Tomasz, NOVÁK, L’ubomír	abstract details download pdf
65 – 88 –	Institutional Metamorphosis or Clerical status quo? New Insights into the Career and Work of Sayyid Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Khātūnābādī MOAZZEN, Maryam	abstract details download pdf
89 – 126 –	The Authentic Layout of the Main Avenue of Fin Garden in Kashan JAYHANI, Hamidreza, REZAEIPOUR, Maryam	abstract details download pdf
In memoriam
129 – 132 –	Malek Iradj Mochiri (1927-2015) GYSELEN, Rika	abstract details download pdf
Comptes rendus
135 – 155 –	Comptes rendus	abstract details download pdf

05/10/2016

Studies on the Pre-Islamic Iranian World
Krasnowolska, Anna & Renata Rusek-Kowalska (eds.). 2015. Studies on the Iranian World I. Before Islam. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press.
This volume is the proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (ECIS7), organized by Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE), which took place in Cracow, September 7-10, 2011. The first of the two volumes of the ECIS7 proceedings is dedicated to the pre-Islamic Iranian studies.
Table of Contents
Linguistics:
- Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Flavia Pompeo: “The Old Persian Genetive. A Study of a Syncretic Case
- Saloumeh Gholami: “Nominal Compound Strategies in Middle Iranian Languages”
- Paolo Ognibene: “Alan Place-names in Western Europe”
- Christiane Reck: “Work in Progress: The Catalogue of the Buddhist Sogdian Fragments of the Berlin Turgan Collection”
- Arash Zeini: “Preliminary Remarks on Middle Persian <nc> in the Pahlavi Documents”
Literature:
- Elham Afzalian: “Autoritäten im Mādayān–ī Hazār Dādestān”
- Iris Colditz: “Two Snake-Brothers on their Way — Mani’s Scripture as a Source of Manichaean Central Asian Parabels?”
- Seyyedeh Fatemeh Musavi: “Fictional Structure of the Middle Persian Ayādgār ī Zarērān“
Religion:
- Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: “Aspects of Hymnology in Manichaean Community in Turfan”
- Raffaella Frascarelli: “Arǝdvī Sūrā Anāhitā: Considerations on the Greek ἀρχἡ”
- Judith Josephson: “Ohrmazd’s Plan for Creation according to Book Three of the Denkard”
- Götz König: “The Pahlavi Translation of Yašt 3″
- Kianosh Rezania: “On the Old Iranian Social Space and its Relation to the Time Ordering System”
History:
- Touraj Daryaee: “Wahrām Čōbēn the Rebel General and the Militarization of the Sasanian Empire“
- Leonardo Gregoratti: “A Tale of Two Great Kings: Artabanus and Vologaeses“
- Rika Gyselen: “Realia for Sasanian History: Mint Networks”
- Elena E. Kuzmina: “New Data on the Developement of the Indo-Iranian in the Bronze Age”
Archaeology:
- Alireza Askari Chaversi: “In Search of the Elusive Town of Persepolis”
- Jukian Bogdani, Luca Colliva, Sven Stefano Tilia: “The Citadel of Erbil. The Italian Archaeological and Topographic Activities”
- Carlo G. Cereti, Gianfilippo Terribili, Alessandro Tilia: “Pāikūlī in its Geographical Context”
- Niccolò Manassero: “New Sealings from Old Nisa”
- Vito Messina, Jafar Mehr Kian: “The Hong-e Azhdar Parthian Rock Relief Reconsidered”
About the Editors:
Anna Krasnowolska is a professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.
Renata Rusek-Kowalska is an assistant professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.
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29/09/2015
Along the Sasanian Tradition
Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2014. Documents, argenterie et monnaies de tradition sassanide. (Res Orientales 22). Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient.
This volume consists of four articles, studying most notably some objects, many of which can be defined as being part of the Sasanian “tradition”; that is to say they share the elements and spirit of Sasanian objects, without having made directly during the Sassanid era.
ToC:
- Maryse Blet-Lemarquand; Rika Gyselen; Florian Duval: “Sur la composition élémentaire de quelques monnaies de cuivre arabo-sassanides”
- Philippe Gignoux: “Une archive post-sassanide du Tabaristān (II)”
- Rika Gyselen: “Inscriptions en moyen-perse sur la vaisselle d’argent sassanide: quelques nouvelles données”
- Dieter Weber: “Arabic Activities Reflected in the Documents of the ‘Pahlavi Archive’ (late 7th and early 8th centuries)”
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14/07/2015
Arabic activities reflected in the documents of the “Pahlavi Archive”
Weber, Dieter. 2014. “Arabic activities reflected in the documents of the ‘Pahlavi Archive’”. Res Orientales 22, 179-189.
The article discusses some Islamic influences in the documents of the so-called “Pahlavi Archive” in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, e.g. the Bismillah-formula, the mentioning of the earliest mosque in the region of Qom, of the Amir as an official and the use of the measurements griw and kabiz for wheat and their Arabic equivalents. Document Berk. 95 is re-edited here, the documents Berk. 93 and Berk. 187 edited for the first time.
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14/07/2015
The early Islamic world
This very interesting volume has an article by Jairus Banaji On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt:
Schubert, Alexander & Petra Sijpesteijn (eds.). 2014. Documents and the history of the early Islamic world. Leiden: Brill.
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new editions of Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E. from Egypt and Palestine, Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World explores the untapped wealth of documentary sources available in collections around the world and shows how this exciting material can be used for historical analysis.
For more information, see here.
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08/12/2014

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