The late 7th and 6th centuries B.C. were a period of tremendous
upheaval and change in ancient western Asia, marked by the
destruction of the Assyrian Empire, the rise and collapse of the
...Neo-Babylonian state, and the stunning ascent of what was to become
the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest polity the world had yet
seen. Of the major cultural entities involved in these far-reaching
events, Elam has long remained the least understood. The essays
contained in this book are part of a continuing reassessment of the
nature and significance of Elam in the early 1st millennium B.C.,
with a focus on the relationship between "Elamite" culture of the
Neo-Elamite period and the emerging "Persian" culture in
southwestern Iran in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.
The conception of this volume goes back to the 2003 meeting of
the American Schools of Oriental Research that took place in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where two sessions were dedicated to
the rich cultural heritage of ancient Iran. It was also the first
time that Iranian archaeology was represented at ASOR since the
Iranian Revolution. This volume contains 14 contributions by
leading scholars in the discipline, organized into 3 sections:
archaeology, texts, and images (art history).
The volume is richly illustrated with more than 200 drawings and
photographs.
The purpose of this article is to outline the evidence for the Neo-Elamite (ca. 1000-525 BCE) and early Achaemenid periods (ca. 525-330 BCE) collected during surveys across the Ram Hormuz plain and ...the excavations at Tal-i Ghazir, with special attention to the burials in the Fort Mound. This site and its surrounds comprised a thriving settlement zone from the early second millennium BCE and a critical crossroads of Elamite and Iranian interaction in the centuries leading up to the emergence o...
Comprehensively researched and illustrated, this book stems from research carried out during the author’s doctoral dissertation “Alas, Short Is the Joy of Life!” Elamite Funerary Practice in the ...First Half of the First Millennium BCE, completed in 2017 at the University of Sydney, Australia. It is divided in four parts: Part 1 offers a background to the Elamite history and material culture of the first millennium BC; Part 2 focuses on the mortuary evidence systematically arranged along (i) ge...
After entering the second millennium BCE as a military superpower, Elam faded into historical obscurity upon its withdrawal from the broader Near Eastern political scene in 1763 BCE and only ...reemerged much later as a major player with a sequence of incursions in Mesopotamia beginning in the thirteenth century and culminating in the 1155 BCE fall of the Kassites. During the intervening centuries, neither written nor archaeological sources offer clear signs that Elamite territory had come under the authority of any foreign power. Here the authors propose that a reexamination of evidence from the ancient settlement of Kabnak (modern Haft Tepe), approximately seventeen kilometers southeast of the Elamite lowland capital of Susa, discloses a mid-fifteenth to mid-fourteenth century BCE state-controlled arsenal of war chariots and weaponry that may hold a key to comprehending Elam’s apparent continued resistance to outside forces and its rise as a military superpower in the thirteenth century.
This monograph offers the first comprehensive study of a corpus of bronze coffins found in Assyrian, Babylonian and Elamite funerary contexts dating from the 8th to the 6th century BC. It is a ...much-expanded, updated and corrected version of an Honours thesis of the same title submitted to The University of Sydney, Australia, in 2012. The book is divided in six chapters. Chapter 1. Introduces the reader to the corpus, the manufacture of the coffins, workshops, their origins and dating. Each bu...
The Lama cemetery was discovered by chance in 1999 during the construction of the road from Yasuj to Isfahan, 50km north of the town of Yasuj, in the Iranian Zagros Bakhtiary mountains. Three ...excavation seasons (1999, 2005, 2008) uncovered numerous stone-lined graves dating from around the mid-second to the mid-first millennium (Jafari 2013), one of which contained no less than twenty-three skulls and numerous funerary goods including a single 1.9 cm high clay cylinder seal. The partly eroded...
This article can be said to be a follow-up of Brosius’ significant book on Women in Ancient Persia 559-331 BC (1996) where the author offered a revaluation of Greek sources, questioning their ...Hellenocentric perspectives, and stressed the importance of Iranian sources. Here Brosius expands this quest back in time to incorporate the local Neo-Elamite traditions, querying possible link between the courts of Elam and Persia. In “No Reason to Hide” the author suggests that women in the Elamite cou...
The abstract of this book (Extraction & Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper) is already online. One of the most noticeable features of Elamite art is the place allocated to the ...representation of women, children and the family, reflecting their special status within the society as a source of political power and stability. In this article the author focuses on the role of royal Elamite women beginning with the early second millennium BC. For the purpose of this review, I will con...
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