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Une borne routière grecque de la région de Persépolis (information). Remarques additionnelles de M. Paul Bernard
No full textCallieri Pierfrancesco. Une borne routière grecque de la région de Persépolis (information). Remarques additionnelles de M. Paul Bernard. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 139ᵉ année, N. 1, 1995. pp. 65-95
La presunta via commerciale tra l'India e Roma attraverso l'Oxus e il Mar Caspio : nuovi dati di discussione
No full textCallieri Pierfrancesco. La presunta via commerciale tra l'India e Roma attraverso l'Oxus e il Mar Caspio : nuovi dati di discussione. In: Topoi, volume 11/1, 2001. pp. 537-546
Cultural Contacts Between Rome and Persia at the Time of Ardashir I (c. AD 224–40).
No full textThe relationship between Rome and Persia in the Sasanian era has attracted the attention of many scholars. Historians have devoted detailed studies to the intensified political and military contacts following Ardashir I’s accession to the throne of Iran. Most art historians and archaeologists, by contrast, have argued that cultural contacts between Rome and Sasanian Persia were only established under Shapur I. There is, however, architectural and artistic evidence to suggest that such contacts commenced in fact already during the reign of Ardashir I. As far as architecture is concerned, D. Huff has made a persuasive case that architects and masons from the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire were involved in the construction of the fire-temple in the city of Ardashir Xwarrah (Firuzabad).
This chapter argues that rock reliefs also imply similar cultural influence, even though the case is more difficult to prove. The author examines the chronology of the five rock reliefs accomplished under Ardashir, as well as the workshops involved in producing them. The earliest relief, at Firuzabad I, shows traits characteristic for Elymaean craftsmen. Subsequently, new techniques and styles appear, and the relief at Naqsh-e Rostam I seems to imitate Persepolitan sculpture. Since numismatic evidence suggests that the reliefs were all carved within about ten years, only the involvement of experienced sculptors, perhaps from the Syro-Mesopotamian regions invaded by Ardashir, can explain such major and rapid change of style
Achaemenid "ritual architecture" vs. "religious architecture": Reflections on the elusive archaeological evidence of the religion of the Achaemenids. Appendix by A. Askari Chaverdi, P Callieri: the monumental buidling of Tol-e Ajori (pp. 394-97).
No full textIn the frame of the congress dedicated by the Collège de France to the issue of the religion of Iran during the Achaemenid period, the author was asked to present a contribution regarding the archaeological evidence of Achaemenid age regarding religion. In his contribution, the author proposes the innovative distinction between a religious architecture, which for the Achaemenids has practically no archaeological evidence, and a ritual architecture, in which many Achaemenid buildings can be included. Shifting the focus of interpretation from a religious architecture to a ritual architecture allows a new approach to the Achaemenid world which appears much more fit to a correct understanding. In an appendix written with Alireza Askari Chaverdi, the authors also present the newly discovered monument of Tol-e Ajori, for which at the time of the conference a ritual function seemed possible (an interpretation which successive excavations have modified)
The bust-pillar: a new type of monument in Ancient Iran?
No full textIn the art of pre-Islamic Iran we have evidence of relief busts in stucco for which a particular position on top of a semi-column can be reconstructed; at the same time we have a few specimens of sculptural human heads in the round, the lower part of which suggests a joint with an element other than the body of a statue.
After describing the evidence on the basis of the available publications, the author attempts an interpretation based on the physical features of these busts or heads. This leads him to suggest the existence of a new type of architectural sculpture, the “bust-pillar”, which seems to be solely present in the architecture of Iran during the Arsacid and Sasanian periods
Vestnik drevnej istorii
No full textThe most important journal on ancient history of the Soviet Union and then Russia, with a section regarding the ancient Orient
Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission in Fars (Iran) - Excavations at Tol-e Ajori, Persepolis
No full textIl proponente dal 2005 è stato (ed è) co-direttore italiano, assieme ad A. Askari Chaverdi, della Missione Archeologica Congiunta Irano-Italiana nel Fars, l'unica delle missioni congiunte attiva ininterrottamente sin dal 2005 nella regione del Fars. Le licenze di scavo hanno riguardato siti UNESCO quali Pasargadae (2006-2007) e Persepoli (dal 2008 al presente). Purtroppo la tendina del programma non permette di indicare un anno di fine direzione posteriore al 2016, ma in realtà l'accordo quinquennale di collaborazione con il Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the Islamic republic of Iran è stato firmato nel 2015 e dura quindi sino al 2018
Margiana in the Hellenistic Period: again on problems of archaeological interpretation.
No full textThe author investigates again the problems in the identification of a Hellenistic horizon in the material culture of Margiana, in the light of a recent work by G. Puschnigg
Hellenistic Art on the Iranian Plateau: Movement of Objects, Movement of People
No full textThe article investigates the diffusion in the Iranian plateau of objects of Hellenistic style and objects of Hellenistic production, attempting at a distinction between imports and local production
Recensione a "Res Orientales, XXII. Documents, argenterie et monnaies de tradition sassanide", ed. R. Gyselen, Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, Bures-sur-Yvette 2014.
No full textLa recensione riguarda un volume di notevole importanza per gli studi sulla cultura dell'Iran di epoca sasanide
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