Table of Contents

HISTORICAL Jérôme Gaslain Some aspects of political history: early Arsacid kings and the Seleucids   M. Rahim Shayegan The Arsacids and Commagene   Marek Jan Olbrycht Dynastic connections in the Arsacid empire and the origins of the House of Sāsān   Touraj Daryaee From terror to tactical usage: elephants in the Partho-Sasanian Period   Mehrdad Ghodrat-Dizaji Remarks on the location of the province of Parthia in the Sasanian period   Andrea Gariboldi The birth of the Sasanian monarchy in western sources   Antonio Panaino Kirdēr and the re-organisation of Persian Mazdeism     LINGUISTIC Rika Gyselen The Parthian language in early Sasanian times   Khodadad Rezakhani From Aramaic to Pahlavi: epigraphic observations based on the Persis coin series   Daryoosh Akbarzadeh Parthian Studies: Two New Notes   ARCHAEOLOGICAL Antonio Invernizzi A Note on Architectural Traditions in Arsacid Parthia: The Round Hall at Nisa   Barbara Kaim Women, dance and the hunt: splendour and pleasures of court life in Arsacid and early Sasanian art   NUMISMATICS Pierre-Yves Boillet Quantifying monetary production: Ecbatana and Media in Parthian times   Nikolaus Schindel The coinages of Paradan and Sind in the context of Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian numismatics

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“The volume presents a series of diverse contributions which discuss several aspects of the Parthian and early Sasanian periods, admirably integrating, in accordance with the intention of the editors, history, archaeology and linguistics with numismatics.”
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...there can be little doubt that the combination of historical, archaeological, numismatic, and linguistic approaches has led to this state-of-the-art volume in Parthian Studies.
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