Issue 05 of DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review)
Issue 05 of DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review), an open access on-line journal for published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, is out now.
Articles
- Hamid Bikas Shourkaei: La satrapie de Phrygie hellespontique (Daskyleion): des origines à la chute de l’Empire perse achéménide.
- Stanley M. Burstein: Ctesias’ sources: A suggestion.
- Kiarash Gholami: Some remarks on the inscription and attribution of a transitional Arab-Sāsānian dirham from Merv.
- John Hyland: Hystaspes, Gobryas, and elite marriage politics in Teispid Persia.
- Thomas Jügel: The aramaeogram of the copula in Zoroastrian Middle Persian and a note on the 2sg. optative.
- Firoze M. Kotwal: Incantations for the festival of the farmers and for the consecration of gravel (nīrang ī jashan ī burzigarān o nīrang ī sang-rēzā yaštan).
- Firoze M. Kotwal: Religious injunction to be observed when a Zoroastrian expires during the Gatha days.
- Daniel T. Potts: The lands of the Balahute and Lallari.
- Daniel T. Potts: The Persian Gulf in the Cosmographia of the Anonymous Geographer of Ravenna, c. 700 AD.
- Razieh Tassob: Language and legend in early Kushan coinage: Progression and transformation.
Book Reivews
- Carlo G. Cereti: Review of Foltz, Richard. Religions of Iran: From prehistory to the present. London: Oneworld Publications, 2013. 314pp. ISBN 978-1-78074.
- Sajad Amiri Bavandpour: Review of
تَذكره اَربيل (وقايع نامه آربِلا)، متن كهن اثر مؤلف ناشناس. ترجمه محمود فاضلی بيرجندی، تهران، مركز دايره المعارف بزرگ
.اسلامی (مركز پژوه شهای ايرانی و اسلامی)، ۱۸۵ صص، ۱۳۹۰ - Adam Benkato: Review of Barbati, Chiara. The Christian Sogdian gospel lectionary E5 in context. Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 81. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015. 357pp.
- Yazdan Safaee: Review of Aliyari Babolghani, Salman. Taḥrīr-e ʿīlāmi-ye katibe-ye dāryuš-e bozorg dar bisotūn. pīšgoft ār, dast ur-e ʿīlāmi-ye haḫāmanešī, ḥarfnevisī, tarǧome, moqābele bā taḥrīrhāye digar, yāddāšthā va vāže-nāme. Tehran: Našr-e Markaz. 1394š/2015. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-964-213-272-0. [The Elamite version of Darius the Great’s inscription at Bisotun. Introduction, grammar of Achaemenid Elamite, transliteration, Persian translation, comparison with other versions, notes and index].