Ancient and Middle Iranian studies
Subtitle: proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007
By: edited by Maria Macuch, Dieter Weber and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst
Contributors: Macuch, Maria; Weber, Dieter, Dr; Durkin, Desmond; Societas Iranologica Europaea
Series: Iranica -- Bd. 19; Iranica -- Bd. 19.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9783447064224
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Pahlavi language; Middle Iranian languages; Iranian philology; Iranian languages; History and criticism; Literatur; Sogdian language; Civilization; Congresses; Old Persian language; Syriac language; Iranian literature; Avestan language
Other titles: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007; Proceedings of the sixth European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Series editor Maria Macuch.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions chiefly in English (17), some in French (2) and German (3); contains transliterated texts in Syriac, Sogdian, Old Persian, Avestan, or Pahlavi, with translations into English, German, or French.
Table of contents: title: Christian Sogdian manuscript C5 as an example of ʺTranslation literatureʺ: work in progress  -- Chiara Barbati; title: Preliminary report on the Irano-Italian stratigraphic study of the Toll-e Takht, Pasargad. Investigations on the material culture of the Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid periods in Fars  -- Alireza Askari Chaverdi and Pierfrancesco Callieri; title: Zur onomastischen Erschliessung der mitteliranisch-manichäischen Texte für das Iranische Personennamenbuch  -- Iris Colditz; title: When the end is near: Barbarized armies and Barracks kings of Late antique Iran  -- Touraj Daryaee; title: Strange case of the plant rivas. How the Middle-Persian Tree of Life became the protagonist of an episode of Austrian history  -- Paolo Delaini; title: Xerxes Persepolis h, ♯ 4 in the light of the Old Persian information structure  -- Ela Filippone; title: Mithras and the stars: a note  -- Tommaso Gnoli; title: Communication roads in Parsa during the Achaemenid period  -- Mohammad-Taghi Imanpour; title: On the origin of the ergative construction in Iranian: evidence from Avestan  -- Thomas Jügel; title: Pahlavi-Text Zand ī Fragard ī Juddēvdād  -- Götz König; title: Incestuous marriage in the context of Sasanian family law  -- Maria Macuch; title: Hellenistic reception in the pottery from Merv  -- Gabriele Puschnigg; title: Bundahišn 26 and the Pahlavi Sīh-rōzag: comparative notes  -- Enrico G. Raffaelli; title: Altiranische Namen in der Nebenüberlieferung. Elamisch Mi-za-pir-za-ka, griechisch ʺAmutis und die altiranische Sequenz -ava- in griechischer Vermittlung  -- Ulla Remmer; title: Balkh and the Sasanians. The economy and society of Northern Afghanistan as reflected in the Bactrian economic documents  -- Khodadad Rezakhani; title: Élamite halmarris ~vieux-perse didā- est-elle vraiment une forteressē? (I)  -- Adriano V. Rossi; title: Lexical cruses of Yasna 29 and the serial cross-textual composition of the Gathas  -- Martin Schwartz; title: Etude des différentes sortes de paronomases dans les textes Pahlavis  -- Golfam Sharifi; title: Hubris and Himmelfahrt. The narrative logic of Kay Us̕ ascent to heaven in Pahlavi literature  -- Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina; title: Preliminary remarks on Bactrian diplomatics  -- Burzine K. Waghmar; title: Writing exercises in Late Sassanian times. A contribution to the culture of writing Pahlavi  -- Dieter Weber; title: Title of the Achaemenid ʹKingʹ. Etymology, formation and meaning of Old Persian xšāyaviya- -- Chlodwig H. Werba.