TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potts,Daniel T.
TI  - Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians
T2  - Variorum collected studies series
SN  - 9781409405351
AV  - DS75 .P67 2010
U1  - 939.4 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Farnham
PB  - Ashgate Variorum
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - To 634
KW  - Iran
KW  - To 640
KW  - Arabian Peninsula
KW  - To 622
KW  - Arabien
KW  - Mesopotamien
KW  - Arabien (Region)
KW  - Irak
KW  - historia
KW  - forntiden
KW  - Arabiska halvön
KW  - Iran <Altertum>
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; An ass for Ares -- Madaktu and Badace -- Trans-Arabian routes of the Pre-Islamic period -- Seleucid Karmania -- Elamite Ulā, Akkadian Ulaya and Greek Choaspes : a solution to the Eulaios problem -- Occidental and Oriental elements in the religions of Babylonia and Iran during the third and second centuries B.C. -- Disposal of the dead in Planquadrat U/V XVIII at Uruk : a Parthian enigma? -- Five episodes in the history of Elymais, 145-124 B.C. : new data from the astronomical diaries -- Foundation houses, fire altars and the frataraka : interpreting the iconography of some post-Achaemenid Persian coins -- Arabia and the kingdom of Characene -- The Roman relationship with the Persicus sinus from the rise of Spasinou Charax (127 BC) to the reign of Shapur II (AD 309-379) -- Augustus, Aelius Gallus and the Periplus : a re-interpretation of the coinage of Ṣanʻâ Class B -- Gundešhapur and the Gondeisos -- The deacon and the dove : on some early Christian grave stelae from al-Maqsha and Shakhura (Bahrain) -- Nabataean finds from Thaj and Qatif -- The Sasanian relationship with South Arabia : literary, epigraphic and oral historical perspectives -- A re-examination of the Late Period graves at Yorgan Tepe (Nuzi) -- Late Sasanian armament from southern Arabia -- Nestorian crosses from Jabal Berri -- A Sasanian lead horse from northeastern Arabia
ER  -