Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
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