| Wolski, Józef (continued) | ||
| "L'hellénisme et l'Iran" (1989) | ||
| In: Mactoux, Marie-Madeleine & Geny, Evelyne (eds.), Mélanges Pierre Lévêque, vol. 2 | ||
| Paris: Belles Lettres, 1991, p. 439-446. | ||
| "Sur l'impérialisme des Parthes arsacides" (1989) | ||
| In: Meyer, Leon de & Haerinck, Ernie (eds.), Archaeologia iranica et orientalis : miscellanea in honorem Louis vanden Berghe / edenda curaverunt L. de Meyer et E. Haerinck, vol 2 | ||
| Gent: Peeters Presse, 1989, p. 637-650. | ||
| "L'importance des sources iraniennes pour l'histoire de l'Iran" (1989) | ||
| In: Mélanges M. Plezia (Munera philologica et historica M. Plezia oblata) | ||
| Krakow: 1989, p. 217-224. | ||
| "Les sources de l'époque hellénistique et Parthe de l'histoire d'Iran. Difficultés de leur interprétation et problèmes de leur évaluation" (1989) | ||
| Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1989, vol. 28, p. 137-145. | ||
| "Alexandre le Grand: légende et réalité. De l'avènement des Séleucides à la chute des Arsacides" (1990) | ||
| In: Croisille, J. M. (ed.), Neronia IV : Alejandro Magno, modelo de los emperadores romanos: actes du IVe Colloque international de la Société Internationale d'études néroniennes (4th : 1987 : Madrid, Spain) / édités par J. M. Croisille | ||
| Brussels: Latomus, 1990, p. 100-109. | ||
| "Sur l'authenticité des traités Romano-Perse" (1992) | ||
| Iranica Antiqua, 1992, vol. 27, p. 169-187. | ||
| "L'archéologie et l'Iran parthe" (1992) | ||
| In: Mélanges L. Press | ||
| 1992, p. 167-171. | ||
| L'Empire des Arsacides (1993) | ||
| In: Acta Iranica 32 | ||
| Lovanii: In Aedibus Peeters, 1993, 218 p. | ||
| Abstract: Contains a general summary of Wolski's theories of Parthian history. | ||
| "Les débuts de l'état parthe et ses contacts avec l'Asie Centrale" (1994) | ||
| In: Convegno internazionale sul tema: La Persia e l'Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo / in collaborazione con l'Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (Roma, 9-12 novembre 1994). Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 127 | ||
| Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1996, p. 179-185. | ||
| "The Arsacid Parthians" (1996) | ||
| In: Herrmann, Joachim & Zurcher, Erik (eds.), History of Humanity: Scientific and Cultural Development. Volume III: From the Seventh Century BC to the Seventh Century AD | ||
| Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1996, p. 129-131. | ||
| "Quelques remarques concernant la chronologie débuts de l'etat Parthe" (1996) | ||
| Iranica Antiqua, 1996, vol. 31, p. 167-178. | ||
| The Seleucids : The Decline and Fall of Their Empire (1999) | ||
| In: Series : Rozprawy Wydzialu Historyczno-Filozoficznego ; t. 91 | ||
| Krakow: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999, 143 p. | ||
| Abstract:
Translated from the Polish by Bruce Duncan MacQueen. See review by Jana Pecirková in ARCHIV ORIENTÁLNÍ, vol. LXVIII, no. 2, May 2000 As he embarks on a new analysis of the history of the Seleucids, Professor Wolski does not follow the old method, which viewed every fragment of history as a separate whole. The Seleucid state was a continuation of the monarchy of Alexander the Great and of the Achaemenids before him, and it inherited from its predecessors all its obstinate troubles. Impressed by Alexander the Great's campaign, the historians overlooked the obvious truth that the conquest itself could not have resolved all the pervasive problems that haunted the Achaemenid state. And then, the Achaemenids' Asian heirs, the Seleucids, were faced by many new challenges. One aspect that has so far been taken little notice of was the resistance of the local population. The book sheds new light on the history of the fall of the Seleucid monarchy. [Publsiher] | ||
| Seleucid and Arsacid Studies : A progress report on developments in source research (2003) | ||
| Krakow: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003, 104 p. | ||
| Abstract:
Translated from the Polish by Teresa Baluk-Ulewiczowa. Since the publication of his history of the Arsacids (1993) and his review of the causes of the downfall of the Seleucid dynasty (1999), Professor Jozef Wolski has been continuing his work on the sources for the history of the Hellenistic Orient. It has led him to new research results based on the Graeco-Latin sources, primarily Strabo and Justin. The analysis of recently discovered Babylonian sources has proved useful as well. The dozen or so reviews of his recent work which have appeared in Poland and abroad called for a response. All of these factors, enhanced by the author's new ideas on the subject, have contributed to the emergence of this book on the history of the Seleucids and Arsacids.. [publisher] | ||
| Die abhangigen Bevolkerungsschichten im Partherreich (In work) | ||
| Abstract: Mentioned by Wolski in "Points de vue..." (1979) as in preparation. | ||
| Wright, G. R. H. | ||
| "Abu Qubur. The 'Parthian Building' and its Affinities" (1991) | ||
| In: Gasche, H.; Pons, N.; Verhoeven, K. & Warburton, D. A. (eds.), Mesopotamian History and Environment Series I Northern Akkad Project Reports (NAPR) Vol. 7, Fouilles d' Abu Qubur | ||
| 1991, p. 75-91. | ||
| Wright, Henry (ed.) | ||
| An Early town on the Deh Luran Plain : excavations at Tepe Farukhabad (1981) | ||
| In: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan : 13 | ||
| Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981 | ||
| Abstract:
Part Three: The Elamite And Later Phases - XII. Evidence of the Parthian and Sasanian Periods , Introduction .... Ceramics of the Parthian and Sasanian Periods (by Lawrence Cohen) .... Other Artifacts of the Parthian and Sasanian Periods .... Summary | ||
| Wroth, Warwick | ||
| Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum 1896", plate V (1897) | ||
| Numismatic Chronicle, 1897 | ||
| "Otanes and Phraates IV" (1900) | ||
| Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society, 1900, tome/ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 89-95. | ||
| "On the rearrangement of Parthian coinage" (1900) | ||
| Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society, 1900, tome/ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 181-202. | ||
| Abstract: "In studying these and other new coins with a view to the preparation of the British Museum catalogue, I was myself led, though reluctantly, to the conclusion that not a few modifications must be made in the accepted arrangement of the coins as set forth in Gardner's work. The rectifications that seemed called for were principally in the period before Phraates IV, and... I ventured to criticize the existing arrangement and to indicate an alternative scheme. This, with various modifications and corrections, has been adopted in the present [BMC Parthia] Catalogue. -- Wroth [BMC Parthia, xvi] | ||
| Catalogue of the Coins of Parthia (1903) | ||
| In: A Catalogue Of Greek Coins in the British Museum | ||
| Bologna: Arnaldo Forni, 1964, lxxxviii+289 p. | ||
| Abstract:
Arnaldo Forni 1964 reprint of the original 1903 British Museum edition. 377 pages with 37 somewhat fuzzy plates (in the Forni reprint). Contains the following tables: A. List of Parthian kings, with dates. B. List of the regal titles found on Parthian coins. C. The Parthian months. D. Years of the Seleucid era with the corresponding years of the Christian era. The attributions have been superceded by Sellwood, but the text and tables are still useful. See review: George Macdonald, Classical Review, Vol. 17, No. 7 (Oct., 1903) , pp. 374-375. | ||
| "The earliest Parthian coins: a reply to Sir Henry H. Howorth" (1905) | ||
| Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1905, tome/ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 317-323. | ||
| Abstract: Wroth refutes Howorth's proposal that the beardless early coins of Parthia be assigned to the Arsacids dynasty in Armenia. See Horworth's original article, "Some Notes on Coins Attributed to Parthia" in Num. Chron., 1905, series 4, vol. 5, p. 209 ff. | ||
| Wulff, H. E. | ||
| "The Qanats of Iran" (1968) | ||
| Scientific American, 1968, no. April, p. 94-105. | ||
| Abstract: Some 3,000 years ago the Persians learned how to dig underground aqueducts that would bring mountain ground water to the plains. In 1968, the system still provided 75 percent of the water used in Iran. | ||
| Wuthnow, Heinz | ||
| Die semitischen Menschennamen in Griechischen Inschriften und Papyri des Vorderen Orients (1930) | ||
| In: Studien zur Epigraphik und Papyruskunde Bd. I, 4 | ||
| Leipzig: 1930 | ||
| Wylie, Graham | ||
| "How did Trajan Succeed in Subduing Parthia where Mark Antony Failed?" (1990) | ||
| Ancient History Bulletin, 1990, vol. 4.2, p. 37-43. | ||
| Yaghmaie, Ehsan | ||
| "How Women Applied Makeup 3000 Years Ago" (1999) | ||
| Zanan, 1999, vol. Sep., no. 52, p. 49-52. | ||
| Yale Gallery of Fine Arts | ||
| Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University, February 1930 (1939) | ||
| Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University, 1939, no. June | ||
| Abstract: Ralph Earl, more from the Euprhates Expedition, Brocaded Satin etc. | ||
| Yamahana, Kyoko | ||
| “Ancient Egyptian Glass Vessels from the New Kingdom – A Comparative Analysis with Roman and Parthian Glass” (2001) | ||
| In: Paper #40 presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Omni Interlocken Resort, Boulder, Colorado, 14–17 Nov 2001 | ||
| 2001 | ||
| Abstract:
Presented under the general topic of "New Discoveries from Materials Science in the Archaeology of the Near East," Elizabeth Friedman (University of Chicago), Presiding. Kyoko Yamahana represented Tokai University. | ||
| Yarshater, Ehsan | ||
| "Parthian Clan of Esfandiar" | ||
| "Were the Sassanians Heirs to the Achaemenids?" (1971) | ||
| In: La Persia nel Medioevo | ||
| Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1971, vol. Quaderno 160, p. 517-533. | ||
| "Iranian National History" (1983) | ||
| In: Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran. The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods, vol. 3, part 1 | ||
| Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 359-479. | ||
| Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.) | ||
| Encyclopædia Iranica (1982-) | ||
| Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1982 | ||
| Abstract: On-line version is a feasibility study of the electronic publication of Encyclopaedia Iranica through the Internet. Available on-line is Volume VII (Fascicles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6). | ||
| The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods (1983) | ||
| In: The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3, parts 1 & 2 | ||
| Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 | ||
| Abstract: In two parts. | ||
| Yatsenko, S. A. | ||
| Kostyum iranoyazichnikh narodov drevnosti i metody ego istoriko-kul'turnoy rekonstruktsii [The Costume of the Ancient Iranian-Speaking Peoples and the Methods of Its Historic-Cultural Reconstruction] (2002) | ||
| Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 2002, 707 p. | ||
| Yildiz, Efrem | ||
| "The Aramaic Language and its Classification" | ||
| Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies | ||
| Abstract: See pp. 34-37, section on "Middle Aramaic". | ||
| Yoshida, Mitsukuni | ||
| In search of Persian pottery (1972) | ||
| New York: Weatherhill, 1972, 161 p. | ||
| Abstract:
Unif title Perushia no yakimono. Translated by John M. Shields. In addition to many photos of ancient through modern pottery, this is a charming travellogue with fascinating insights into ancient pottery making methods still practiced in Iran and Afghanistan. The focus is on Islamic period production. Only one black & white photo of a Parthian piece is included, a three-legged black pitcher. | ||
| Young, Gary K. | ||
| Rome's eastern trade. International commerce and imperial policy, 31 BC-AD 305 (2001) | ||
| London: Routledge, 2001 | ||
| Young, J. H. | ||
| "Commagenian Tiaras, Royal and Divine" (1964) | ||
| American Journal of Archaeology, 1964, vol. 68, p. 29ff. | ||
| Young, Penny | ||
| "Return to Dura Europos", History Today, Volume 47 (11) Nov 1997. (1997) | ||
| History Today, 1997, vol. 47, no. 11 (Nov) | ||
| Zadneprovskaya, T. N. | ||
| "Bibliographie de travaux sovietiques sur les parthes" (1975) | ||
| Studia Iranica, 1975, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 243-260. | ||
| Abstract: With reference to the Soviet sources in this bibliography, Frye [1984, p. 205] mentions that "the works of Koshelenko are especially noteworthy, since he is the foremost Soviet specialist on the Parthians." | ||
| Zadoks-Josephus Jitta, Annie N. | ||
| "Hellenisme in het Midden Osten" (1949) | ||
| In: Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Nederlandsche Genootschap voor Munt-en Penningkunde, vol. 36, Part 2 | ||
| 1949, p. 166-168. | ||
| Zaehner, R. C. | ||
| The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism (1961) | ||
| London: 1961 | ||
| Zamir-Dahncke, M. R. | ||
| "Eine unbekannte elymäïsche Münze" (1975) | ||
| Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, 1975, tome/ser. New, vol. 8, p. 141-142. | ||
| "Numismatische Neuigkeiten" (1976) | ||
| In: Akten des VII. Internationalen Kongresses für Iranische Kunst und Archäologie : München, 7.-10. September 1976. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Ergänzungsband 6 | ||
| Berlin: D. Reimer, 1977, p. 346-348. | ||
| Abstract: Image of Elymais coin with legend of unknown king URUD MaLKA BaRI URUD. | ||
| Zanibon, Antonio | ||
| Arsacide. Dramma recitato nel Teatro di S. Mose di Venezia l'anno 1721. Musica di Fortunato Chelleri, Milanese (1721) | ||
| Venezia: Marino Rossetti, 1721, 50 p. | ||
| Zav'ialov, V. A. | ||
| "Fortifications at Merv (Gyaur-Kala) after Alexander" (2004) | ||
| In: Symposium: After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam. Themes in the history and Archaeology of Western Central Asia The British Academy, London, 23-25 June 2004 | ||
| 2004 | ||
| Abstract:
The fortifications of Gyaur-kala were first examined in 1957-58 by the South-Turkmenistan Archaeological Multi-disciplinary Expedition (YuTAKE) of the Turkmenian Academy of Sciences, who recorded four separate walls. The first was dated to Antiochus I, co-ruler of the Upper Provinces of the Seleucid state from 293 BC. The second wall and towers were assigned to Mithridates II (123-87 BC). This wall was rebuilt during the reign of Shapur I (241-272 AD), when it was raised and a 'base-platform triangular in shape' built at the bottom of the wall. The construction of the fourth and last wall, with two phases, was dated to the reign of Khusrau I. In 1997 the International Merv Project began an investigation of the walls in the south-western corner, which is still ongoing. Their results added to the data obtained by YuTAKE. They have identified some ten different phases. Phase I: the first wall, built mainly of mud brick, was constructed on a platform at least 3.5 metres high. It rose some 10 metres above the level of the platform, with a walkway and parapet along the top. The walkway was supported by vaulted rooms in the first storey. A second walkway was sited behind the vaulted rooms to enable the defenders to make their way along the inside of the wall. A platform in front extended some 28 metres and sloped down to a moat. The Phase 2 wall was rebuilt. The first floor rooms and walkway were infilled to create a firm base for the upper walkway. The second wall became a one-storey solid wall and was at least one metre higher. The outer platform of the first wall was extended. At the beginning of Phase 3 an additional wall, c. 2-3 metres thick, was built against the second and first walls. In its structure it was reminiscent of the second wall but was larger. The Phase 4 wall was built on a platform erected over the old platform and against the third wall. In front of a semi-circular corner bastion and the curtain a proteichisma complete with arrow-slits and an outer platform was built. The curtain consisted of at least two galleries, both with rectangular embrasures in the outer walls. It is probable that there was a walkway above the upper gallery. Phase 5. The platform in front of the fourth wall was raised to set up a berm, blocking the lower embrasures of the fourth wall. The upper gallery might have formed the lower gallery of a new fifth wall, as indicated by the top of the berm positioned immediately under the embrasures of the fourth wall. The lower gallery of the fifth wall was rebuilt in Phase 6. Along its inner and outer walls additional walls were erected providing the basis for an arched vault. The upper part of the wall has not survived, while the lower part, reinforced with the berm, appears to have gone on being used. Structural changes of this kind would point to the existence of a sixth wall. Phases 7 and 8 were identified with the help of the results obtained by the YuTAKE excavations, since the state of preservation of this (seventh) wall does not allow us to confirm the short published reports. Phase 9. IMP excavations behind the bastion revealed the presence of a corridor filled with mud bricks, which relates to the seventh wall recorded by YuTAKE. There could have been some activity aimed at preparing the erection of the next wall, which did not survive or was not built. Remains of such late walls still stand on the crest of the northern side of the wall of the city-site. The Phase 10 walls were used for burials according to the Islamic rite. Several 8th century burials were found by YUTAKE and one by the IMP. IMP research has established that no less than seven walls existed to defend first of all Antiochia and then Merv over a period of almost 1,000 years after Alexander. It is logical to examine the building and re-building of these fortifications against both the historical background, known from written sources, and the archaeological data, such as pottery, coins and samples taken for analysis. The first wall, erected during the rule of Antiochus I, is the first of its kind to have survived in Central Asia to its full height: it was built according to the canons of military architecture, recorded by Philonius of Byzantium. Comparison of this mud brick wall with the stone walls of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor reveals similar techniques and structural elements. The rebuilding of the first wall probably occurred in the Graeco-Bactrian period. The third wall was erected when Margiana was part of the Parthian Empire, probably during the reign of Mithridates I (171-139 BC). A copper obolus of Diodotus I or II (250-239 BC) was found in a pisé block inside the wall: the coin was itself of earlier origin, since the pisé blocks were made from material from abandoned habitation levels. The fourth wall also dates from the Parthian period: two Parthian coins of the 1st century BC-1st century AD were found in the brickwork of that wall, thus indirectly indicating its date of construction. The fifth and sixth walls, linked to the rebuilding of the fourth and fifth walls, were probably built in the early Sasanian period. Five coins relating to an issue of Shapur II (309-379) were found in the gallery of the sixth wall, while a coin of Kavad I (499-531 AD) was found during the YuTAKE excavations of the seventh wall. Our results suggest, therefore, that the first three walls were built and rebuilt in keeping with trends discernible in military architecture widespread in the Hellenistic world. This is also indicated by numerous finds of stone projectiles for slings and various stone hurling devices. [Author] | ||
| Zeimal, E. V. | ||
| "Le Trésor Monétaire de Qunduz by Raoul Curiel & Gérard Fussman" (Review) (1967) | ||
| Vestnik Drevnei Istorii, 1967, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 160-165. | ||
| "Parthianskiæi luchnikh i ego proiskhozhdenie" [The Parthian archer emblem and its origins] (1982) | ||
| Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, 1982, vol. 47, p. 46-49. | ||
| Abstract: English summary: p. 86. | ||
| Ancient coins of Tijakistan (1983) | ||
| 1983, 309 p. | ||
| Abstract: Over 650 coins pictured. Photos are well done and clear. Book covers from 4th century BC to 4th century AD. Covers and pictures the coins of: Achaemenids, Seleucids, Greco-Bactria, imitation drachms of Alexander, imitation coins of Antioch, imitation coins of Greco-Bactria, coins of Parthia with counterstamp, coins of the Kushans and Kushan-Sassanids, Sogdiana, etc. | ||
| "Drevnie monety Tadzhikistana" [Ancient coins of Tadjikistan] (1983) | ||
| Dushanbe, Tadjikistan: 1983, 309 p. | ||
| Abstract: Over 650 coins pictured. Photos are well done and clear. Book covers from 4th century BC to 4th century AD. Covers and pictures the coins of: Achaemenids, Seleucids, Greco-Bactria, imitation drachms of Alexander, imitation coins of Antioch, imitation coins of Greco-Bactria, coins of Parthia with counterstamp, coins of the Kushans and Kushan-Sassanids, Sogdiana, etc. | ||
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