Dirven’s contribution deals with an episode narrated in the Diaries which has not obtained deserved attention from scholars and whose implications concerning religious life of late Babylon are extremely interesting. In 133 BC a boatman entered claimed to be messenger goddess Nanāya. He began preach street was welcome by enthusiast crowd citizens. Finally, his popularity open conflict Temples’ a...

Les premieres informations sur les tombes d’epoque parthe a Hamadan furent revelees par la fouille de sauvetage necropole Sang-e Shir en 1975 dans le sud ville moderne Hamadan, fouillee et publiee Massoud Azarnoush (AMIT 6,1979). Depuis debut 21e siecle, travaux centre urbain ont occasionne mise au jour une quinzaine sondages limites disperses cadre urbains l’interieur du boulevard peripherique...

the sassanid rulers’ endeavor to establish an empire led to a substantial change in the previous ruling system and to the foundation of a new order. the founders of the empire enjoyed the legacy of parthian and other preceding rules. they were fully acquainted with the concept of sh?hansh?hi (‘king of kings’) which aroused in parthian and other preceding rules on the one hand, and with zoroastr...

Today the city of Ḫarrān/Carrhae is mainly known for famous battle, in which Roman general Crassus was defeated by a Parthian army 53 BCE. However, Ḫarrān also one most important religious centres North Mesopotamia. Since Bronze Age, moon god Sîn popular wider region, and it well that late Assyrian Baby- lonian kings supported cult rebuilt temple Sîn. Archaeological evidence written sources att...