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Donations of Land in Sasanian Empire
No full textThe author analyzes the problem of the private property of land (beside the royal domains) in the Sasanian empire
Sogdian and Early Islamic Coins from Kafir Kala (Uzbekistan)
No full textThe Author presents a numismatic catalogue of the coins that have been recovered from the archaeological site of Kafir Kala, near Samarkand in Uzbekistan. The Sogdian citadel was excavated by the University of Bologna, from 2002 to 2008
Astral Symbology on Iranian Coinage
No full textThe author analyzes the presence of astral symbols on Persian coins, from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian age, and links their significance to the conception of Iranian sacral kingship
Social Conditions in Egypt under the Sasanian Occupation (619-629 A.D.)
No full textThe Author treats, using different kind of sources - Greek, Coptic and Pahlavi - the social and economic conditions in Egypt, under the Sasanian occupation in the 7th Century CE. It results that the Sasanians got hold of the Roman administrative practice, both civil and military, under the supreme leadership of Sahralanyozan, who is named in Greek and Pahlavi papyri
Elements of "Globalization" in Ancient Iranian Numismatics
No full textThe author analyzes different economic patterns in Antiquity, showing some similarities between Eastern and Western numismatics
La collezione numismatica del Museo di Classe: dall'erudita passione dei monaci all'orgoglio civico-nazionale
No full textL’apporto dei Camaldolesi alle scienze dal XIV al XVIII secolo fu enorme, ma non è ancora stato adeguatamente studiato. Numerosi monaci, espressione di un vero e proprio «cattolicesimo illuminato», si dedicarono con innovativo successo a diversi aspetti culturali nel campo delle lettere, della matematica, della medicina e delle scienze naturali . Il monastero di Classe a Ravenna si caratterizzò, in particolare, per gli studi eruditi storico-letterari e per una spiccata propensione al collezionismo di antichità, specie epigrafi e monete. Il Museo di Classe svolgeva così un’importante funzione didattica e illustrativa in supporto alla copiosa biblioteca voluta dal Canneti agli inizi del XVIII secolo. Il presente studio ricostruisce minuziosamente, sulla base di un'ampia ricerca d'archivio e di catalogazione del materiale numismatico, la storia della collezione del Museo di Classe con particolare riferimento ai materiali tuttora conservati presso la Biblioteca Classense di Ravenna
The Role of Gold and Silver in the Sasanian Economy
No full textThe author discusses, based on different primary sources, the role of gold and silver (both coined and valued by weight) in the Sasanian economy, and its impact on the Roman trade
Monetary Circulation along the Zeravshan in Late Sogdian Contexts
No full textThe Author describes the monetary circulation in Tajikistan, during the late Sogdian period and the early Islamic age (7th-8th CE). The data of the coin hoards have been collected thanks to the field works of the Italian Missions of the University of Bologna in the Yaghnob Valley
Elagabalo invictus sacerdos: l'imperatore fanciullo e la centralizzazione del sacro attraverso lo specchio delle monete
No full textL'articolo analizza la politica religiosa di Elagabalo (218-222 d.C.), con particolare riferimento alle sue emissioni monetali, sia urbiche che provinciali
The Great "Restoration" of Husraw I
No full textThe author, in the light of the long historiographical debate that characterizes this subject, analyzes the famous economic and fiscal reform carried out by Husraw I. The reforms, which were necessary after the violent suppression of the Mazdakite movement, contributed to modify the rural landscape of the Sasanian empire with the instauration of a new taxation system, based on yearly average rates set on different kind of crops: wheat, barley, rice, grapes, trefoil and date palms or olive trees according to their number. The king also ordered to count the heads of those being liable for the poll tax, except for people from noble families, warriors, secretaries and Zoroastrian priests; the poll tax was not assessed on those below twenty or above fifty years of age. In order to prevent any abuse or injustice perpetrated by tax collectors, accurate fiscal registrations and close inspections in the villages were periodically done, through a complex mechanism of cross-checks. This tax reform actually brought much money in the royal treasuries. But since sources concerning such reforms are almost pertinent to the later Arab tradition, which absorbed the official Sasanian propaganda, one could reasonably doubt about their real truthfulness
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