Iran
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Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals [Paperback]
Beate Dignas (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521614078
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Founded in AD 224 the Sasanian Dynasty ruling Persia proved considerably more powerful and ambitious than its predecessors, and caused Rome and the Eastern Empire correspondingly greater problems. This study is an excellent resource for relatio... .... Learn More -
Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Art [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
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ISBN: 9780872901582
Published by : Corning Museum of Glass
This catalogue contains 72 objects that are believed to be Sasanian or "post-Sasanian" (ie, made in Sasanian style in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Sasanid dynasty). The uncertainty about their origin derives from the fact th... .... Learn More -
The Persians [Paperback]
Maria Brosius (Author)
£27.99ISBN: 9780415320900
Published by : Routledge
Oxbow says: This newest volume in Routledge's Peoples of the Ancient World series, which has previously featured books on the Babylonians, Trojans and Egyptians, focuses on the Persians. Afforded a rather biased and unbalanced legacy by the Gr... .... Learn More -
Persian Fire: First World Empire [Hardback]
T. A. Holland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780385513111
Published by : Doubleday
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a si... .... Learn More -
The Saljuqnama of Zahir al-Din Nishapuri: A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society [Hardback]
Zahir Al-Din Nihapuri (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780906094488
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hoped to win favour at the court by presenting his history of the great early Saljuq kings and th... .... Learn More -
Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan: Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran [Hardback]
William M. Sumner (Author)
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ISBN: 9781931707459
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan. These levels cover the critical centuries when complex urban... .... Learn More -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume I [Hardback]
B. W. Robinson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780907132431
Published by : Pindar Press
Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of... .... Learn More -
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542) [Paperback]
Michel Membre (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094433
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. .... Learn More -
Siraf XV: The Coins and Monumental Inscriptions [Paperback]
Nicholas Lowick (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9780901477040
Published by : British Institute of Persian Studies
A catalogue of the Arabic coins and inscriptions found during excavations at Siraf during the 1960s and 70s. Siraf lies on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and its heyday was the ninth and tenth centuries AD when its merchants were tradin... .... Learn More -
Nush-i Jan 3: The Small Finds [Paperback]
John Curtis (Author)
£5.00ISBN: 9780901477033
Published by : British Institute of Persian Studies
Excavations were carried out at the Median and Parthian site at Tepe Nush-i Jan in Western Iran in the 60s and 70s. This volume describes the small finds: notably a hoard of pendants, beads, rings, ingots and odd lumps of silver and other bits ... .... Learn More
