we can recognize ancient environmental, political, economic and cultural conditions with study old textiles. textile objects are important cases for archaeological investigations at the museums. professor mohsen moghadam has collected unique textile collection belonged to parthian, sassanid, early islamic, middle islamic, safavid, qajar and pahlavi periods and a few foreign textiles for example...

Abstract Late Sanskrit lardayati ‘to load’ is probably not inherited from a PIE root *lerd-, as has recently been argued by Kaczyńska (2020), but can be explained denominative of *larda- ‘load, cargo’. This noun could borrowing Bactrian *λιρτο /lirtə/ cargo’ < Old Iranian *dr̥šta-. etymology fits well with the fact that phrased together sthora- ‘pack-animal’, likely another instantiation coll...

Any archaeological artefact made from recyclable material may have been recycled before deposition. Three approaches are presented which identified recycling in the record: (1) application of log ratio analyses to investigate compositional data indicates that Roman glass was and reapplied as a glaze on Parthian pottery, thereby suggesting paucity Sasanian record is due recycling; (2) linear mix...

Abstract Numismatic inscriptional evidence consistently employs the ΕΥΕΡΓ- word group in describing a superior providing some material public benefit to an inferior, typically entire city, nation or kingdom. This is evidenced present study's comprehensive survey of several hundred numismatic types, extant many thousands specimens from second century bce first ce . Within this context, 1 Timothy...

darabgird is one of the ancient cities in fars province. according to iranian mythology, darab shah (dariush, the great) found the city in the achaemenid period. but, due to the fact that 1.21% of total ceramics gathered from the city belongs to the parthian era, we can accept that the city remained in use since parthian period to the islamic era. data analysis shows that the city had a strong...

The archaeological campaign of the 16th season of excavations in Tepe Hegmataneh intended to explore the architecturalstructures belonging to the historical period. The excavated area consists of 4 squares including AJ45, AJ46, AK45,and AK46 with a total size of 400 m2 . Excavations in these squares recorded 55, 54, 105, and 116 loci respectively.The architecture belonging to the historical per...