Abstract This article maps the mainly lost Sasanian historiographical literature through Arabic translations of Middle Persian works and information preserved in early sources. Although only two texts have been original Persian, sources reveal a sizeable corpus translation.

The MULINEM (The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia) project is aiming to investigate a Late Sasanian and Islamic urban network in the land of Erbil, historic province of Hidyab (Adiabene) that is located in the northern Iraq. The research of the hierarchical urban network in a defined area belongs to approaches rarely used in the study of the Islamic urbanism. The project foc...

Bas-reliefs of scenes from the epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata are extremely common in temples all over India, but depictions a Sanskrit drama (mahānāṭaka) places worship virtually unheard of. A few bas-reliefs at Lokeśvara Temple Trailokyeśvara Paṭṭadakal depict centring around female figure, who is arguably Śakuntalā. The story Śakuntalā first mentioned was subsequently dramatised by Kālidāsa ...

with the eight sassanians reliefs, naghsh-e rustam in marvdasht is a prominent complex safeguarding a complete collection of the sassanian period. seven of these reliefs have been repeatedly the subject of investigations thanks to their relatively better conditions. the fifth relief, however, has not yet been studied due to their damaged status. it depicts the full-face portrait of a sassanid k...

Bi-Laplacian High order differentials Construction Construction and restoration a b c d Self intersection of the scene parts Undesired scene deformations Dents around attenuation points 1 Different Solutions In order to obtain the final relief geometry, we use two fitting steps, construction and restoration, instead of using one step fitting methods such as bi-Laplacian, higher order Laplacians...