The Sasanian era
By: edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart.
Contributors: Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh.; Stewart, Sarah; University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.; London Middle East Institute.; British Museum.
Series: The idea of Iran -- v. 3
Publisher: I.B. Tauris in association with The London Middle East Institute at SOAS and The British Museum; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York, NY; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781845116903
Subjects: Sassanids -- Congresses; Iran -- History -- To 640 -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Proceedings of two symposia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-175).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How Pious was Shapur I?; title: Early Sasanian coinage; title: Formation and ideology of the Sasanian state in the context of archaeological evidence; title: Kingship in early Sasanian Iran; title: Image and identity: art of the early Sasanian Dynasty; title: The Sasanian in the East; title: Religion in the late Sasanian Period: Eran, Aneran, and other religious designations; title: State and society in late Antique Iran; title: Prices and drachms in the late Sasanian Period; title: Late Sasanian society between orality and literacy.