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Conférence de M. Carlo G. Cereti
No full textCereti Carlo G. Conférence de M. Carlo G. Cereti. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire. Tome 107, 1998-1999. 1998. pp. 187-189
Scienze dell'antichità. Storia, archeologia, antropologia. (2023). Vol. 29/3
No full textL'edizione del volume monografico della rivista Scienze dell'Antichita (29, 3, 2023) dedicato al terzo convegno Egitto e Vicino Oriente (EVOA) 2022 è a cura del professor Carlo G. Cereti, e dei dottori Angelica Gaspari, Carlo Marchetti e Massimiliano Vassall
The Monument of Paikuli. The activities of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan, past and present
No full textSince 2006 a team of Italian archaeologists and epigraphists, led by Prof. Carlo G. Cereti
(Sapienza University of Rome) surveyed and studied the commemorative monument erected by
the Sasanian king Narseh (293 302 CE) next to a strategic pass of the Qaradagh Range
(Sulaimaniyah Province). Through the data collected from the site and the Paikuli Collection
held at the Slemani Museum, many innovative results have been achieved in the last decade.
More specifically, the study of the bilingual inscription (Middle Persian and Parthian) and the
massive sculptures of the king, once adorning the monument, provided significant improvement
of the scholarly debate on the early Sasanian kingship. The ongoing activities include the
documentation of all the blocks originally constituting the outer coating of the monument and
now scattered on the slopes of the hill. The new set of archaeological data will soon shed light
on different matters related to the still problematic feature of the monument structure structur
Presevation of the Cultural Heritage of the Kurdish Region in Iraq. Italian Cooperation Project in Iraqi Kurdistan 2009-2010
No full textRemarks on the "Cities of Eranshahr" ad its date in the light of the "Xwaday-namag" and Sasanian primary sources
No full textThe article discusses the date of the Middle Persian text "Cities of Eranshahr" in the light of Sasanian primary sources and of the Khwaday-namag, a chronicle of Sasanian kings that has only survived in Arabic tradition. Accordying to the author, the Middle persian text contains important information that date back to the sasanian period
Some passages on turkic peoples in zoroastrian pahlavi literature
No full textFollowing on similar contributions focusing on geographical chapters and subjects in Pahlavi literature, in this article the author briefly presents the main evidence on the presence of Turkic people and on place names relative to the vast area of Turkestân, as found in Middle Persian Zoroastrian texts © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013
On the Pahlavi cursive script and the Sasanian Avesta
Get PDFThe compilation of the Avesta in the Avestan alphabet has been assigned to different periods of the Sasnnian rule, or even to the early Islamic period; Here, the author rediscusses the evidence provided by Pahlavi books and other sources, which in great majority point toward the existence of a Sasanian Avesta. In the second part of the article, he aims at demonstrating that the cursive variant of the Pahlavi alphabet was already in use by the very end of the 5th cenlllry AD or, at the latest, by the beginning of the 6th century
De Persarum Regni descriptionibus, otii fructus. Some thoughts on geographical literature in the Zoroastrian tradition
No full textThe articcle discusses geographical texts belonging to the Zoroastrian tradition and written in Avestan and Middle Persian. The author shows that ancient and medieval texts show a marked degree of continuity, though the latter adapt to the geographical reality of later times. This work is part of a series of papers dealing with Iranian geographical texts
About Kust i Adurbadagan and the quadripartition of the Sasanian Empire
No full textThe author discusses the administrative structure of the late Sasanian Empire with a special focus on the quadripartition of the Empire and the northern quarter of Sasanian dominions, the Kust i Adurbadagan. To do so, he proposes a new reading of the final paragraphs of the Shahrestaniha i Eranshahr, comparing it with the Armenian Geography of Ananias of Shirak and with evidence deiving from our increased knowledge od Sasanian administrative glyptics. Finally, the author suggests a new definition of this area
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