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The Achaemenid parasol. Background, diffusion and legacy
No full textStarting from the well-known examples carved on the doorjambs of some buildings on the Persepolis Terrace, this book aims to trace and analyse archaeological evidence of the use of the royal parasol at the court of the Persian Great King and in the wider territories subject to military and political control by the Achaemenid Dynasty.
Imbued with a preeminent symbolic value pertaining to the ideological domain of kingship and retained as a sign of authority par excellence, the use of this peculiar element of the royal paraphernalia was already widespread before the Achaemenid Empire and survived its collapse, when it entered both the secular and religious imagery of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia and Northern India, before returning to Iran in the Late Antiquity
Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-western Iran during the Sasanian Period: Some Archaeological Remarks
Full text linkOn account of the peculiar geomorphological and geographical features of the Iranian territory, water has always been a fundamental element of the Iranian landscape. Surface water and groundwater reserves were extensively exploited during the Sasanian period - for freshwater supply and to enhance the agricultural productivity - by means of public as well as private programmes of management of the hydraulic issues. Focusing on archaeological evidence from South-western Iran and stressing the extent to which the cultural landscape of Sasanian Iran was influenced by the importance of water, this paper deals with topics related to the architecture and chronology of some hydraulic infrastructures in Fars and Khuzestan
I ponti di epoca sasanide in Iran nel contesto dei contatti culturali tra la Persia e Roma
No full textBridges are usually considered as one of the most peculiar and distinctive elements of the cultural landscape of Sasanian Iran. Extensive programs of investments in the management of agricultural and hydraulic issues during the Sasanian period resulted in the construction of a significant number of this kind of infrastructures. In the opinion of many scholars, several Sasanian bridges clearly testify for a heavy and direct technology transfer from the Roman Empire to Sasanian Iran. In some cases, moreover, some of the aforementioned infrastructures are definitely considered as actual “Roman” monuments, built in Persian territory by Roman captives under the supervision of Roman military engineers. This paper tries to question a similar assumption on the basis of the available archaeological evidence and of the peculiar hydrological setting and specific function of some of those monument
The Pottery from Dahane-ye Gholaman (Sistan): The State of Art.
No full textDiscovered in the early 60s of the past century by an Italian archaeological team of the IsMEO (Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) directed by Umberto Scerrato, the site of Dahane-ye Gholaman, in Iranian Sistan, represents a key site in the archaeology of the Achaemenid period on the Iranian Plateau. Italian and Iranian archaeological activities at the site revealed an important complex of buildings dated to the Achaemenid period (interpreted as the main urban centre of ancient Zranka/Drangiana) and led to the formation of a large assemblage of pottery fragments. Notwithstanding the scientific efforts made by several Iranian and Italian scholars in recent decades, the corpus of the pottery from Dahane-ye Gholaman remains partially unpublished and more exhaustive publications are still awaited. This paper aims at outlining the state of the research on the topi
The Achaemenid Ceramic Horizon as seen from Ancient Zranka: an Overview
No full textIn the Old Persian inscriptions enumerating the “countries/peoples” subjected to the authority of the Achaemenid Kings, the name of the territory around the Hamun Lake and the lower course of the Helmand River – on the modern political border between Iran and Afghanistan – is attested in a form to be read as Zranka. Notwithstanding several archaeological researches carried out both in the Iranian and the Afghan part of the area, evidence concerning settlements and material culture during the Achaemenid period in this wide region remains rather meagre and elusive. This paper analyses the archaeological evidence from the area corresponding to ancient Zranka in order to outline a picture of its pottery production and point out related research problems
Between ‘Early’ and ‘Late’ Iron Age in south-eastern Iran: notes on the possibility to evaluate the ‘Achaemenid impact’ on the area
Full text linkThe paper explores the possibility to evaluate the intensity of an alleged ‘Achaemenid impact’ on South-eastern Iran in the light of researches on local material culture and settlement pattern. The focus of the paper is mainly represented by areas in Kerman Province and in Sistan (Sistan and Baluchestan Province) by virtue of a greater amount of information at disposal for these territories
Towards Li(Ni0.33Mn0.33Co0.33)O2/graphite batteries with ionic liquid-based electrolytes. I. Electrodes' behavior in lithium half-cells
No full textLithium cells based on NMC cathodes or graphite anodes and ionic liquid-based electrolyte mixtures are investigated. The electrode tapes, using water-soluble natural binders, as well as the ionic liquid materials, are prepared through eco-friendly routes involving H2O as the only processing solvent. The Li/NMC and Li/graphite half-cells are studied by cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy and galvanostatic cycling tests at different temperatures. The results herein reported, demonstrate the performance improvement in terms of cycling behavior and ageing resistance, granted by the ionic liquid mixtures with respect to the electrolytes reported in literature based on a single ionic liquid. © 2016 Elsevier B.V
Glassware from the Excavations at the Masjed-e Jom‛e in Isfahan: Brief Notes on the ADAMJI Processing Activities
No full textReport on the archaeological activities carried out on the corpus of glass fragments from the excavations carried out in the 1970s at the Masjed-e Jom'e in Isfahan (Iran). The corpus was the subject of a preliminary study carried out in the frame of the joint Italian/Iranian ADAMJI (Archaeological Digital Archive Masjed Jom'e Isfahan) Project (2003-2010)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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