Curtis, John (ed.). 2020. Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period. A collection of essays in memory of the curator and scholar Terence Mitchell, exploring the history and archaeology of Ancient Persia. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. Ltd.
An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539–330 BC), when the Persians established control over the whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian Empire. It will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars. Paul Collins writes about stone relief carvings from Persepolis; John Curtis and Christopher Walker illuminate the Achaemenid period in Babylon; Terence Mitchell, Alan Millard and Shahrokh Razmjou draw attention to neglected aspects of biblical archaeology and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and Mahnaz Moazami and Prudence Harper explore the Sasanian period in Iran (AD 250–650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion.
Contents
Editor’s Note
Introduction
John Curtis
Terence Mitchell’s Published Works
- Five Unpublished Persepolis Relief Fragments in the Ashmolean Museum
Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - Where Did the Persian Kings Live in Babylon?
John Curtis, Curator Emeritus, British Museum; Director, Iran Heritage Foundation - The Use of Seals in Babylonia under the Achaemenids
Christopher Walker, Curator Emeritus, British Museum - An Iranian in the Court of King Nebuchadnezzar
Alan Millard, Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool - Biblical Archaeology in the Persian Period
Terence Mitchell, lately Curator Emeritus, British Museum - The Textual Connections between the Cyrus Cylinder and the Bible, with Particular Reference to Isaiah
Shahrokh Razmjou, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran - Interpreting Sasanian Beards: Significant Images in an Interconnected World
Prudence Harper, Curator Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art - Sasanian-Zoroastrian Intellectual Life in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD
Mahnaz Moazami, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica, University of Columbia
Index of selected place-names and personal names