The Roman historian Tacitus 's Book of Annals is an important historical source on the history of the Parthians and their neighbors.? Although, the translator Mirsaʿidi's main focus is on the Roman history, but this book also has some very important mentions on the role of the Parthians and their subordinate lands he did not translate them. In this work, a comparative study was conducted between the original English version of the book and its Persian translation to examine the accuracy of the content of the Persian translation. The authors have tried to review the translation of ?the book after introducing the main gist of the book and some of its important non-Persian editions and subsequently comparing these translations with its Englis

Malgr? un titre attractif, cet article n’apporte rien aux connaissances. Les r?f?rences bibliographiques ne sont pas ? jour (aucune r?f?rence bibliographique (non-iranienne) apr?s 1992). De plus, le travail ?ditorial de cet article laisse beaucoup ? d?sirer?: pourquoi ne pas remplacer un terme comme ‘relic’ par un terme pr?cis comme ‘silverware’, ‘silver plate’, etc.?; pourquoi garder des transcriptions comme Vuzorgfarmzār alors que des sources ?pigraphiques moyen-perse attestent clairement l...

Abstract The empowerment of Zoroastrian Magi as a social class was intertwined with the emperors’ power to the extent that the political power of Magi can be regarded as a discontinued historical process with ups and downs. This paper attempts to reassess an apparent contrast between historical narratives and archeological findings (eg rock reliefs) concerning the political empowerment of Zoroastrian Magi in the beginning of Sassanid Empire until the reign of Narseh. According to the historical narratives, the Sassanid founding fathers, Ardashir and his Successor Shapur I, emphasized ecumenism (ie the possession of political sovereignty and religious power by emperor.) However, according to the rock reliefs of the 3rd century, shortly aft

Sassanian artists were realistic in creating memorial artworks, but their artistic style did not necessarily result in exact depiction of figures with accurate facial representations. In contrast, such realism manifests itself only through determined appearances and unchangeable artistic conventions. Doing so, identifying people is only possible by recognizing their distinct crowns, headbands, attire, specific signs, position in queues, their posture and overall representation in the figure. Based on semiological analyses, in this paper, it has been argued that Pāpak, a member of the famous clan of Qāren was “Bidaxš” and that vice-regent of Bahram II, Bahram III, Nerseh and Hormizd II. Contrary to some scholars’ argument concerning

In its course of evolution, the Sassanian rule accepted a change in temporal exigencies, condition and manner of governance of each ruler where more attention was paid to the institutional establishment, grades/ranking, titles, symbols and administrative hierarchy. In a way, the organizational manner, to a larger extent, could engulf the period into a curtain of ambiguity. One of those ranks was Vuzorg Farmzar that apart from having equivalents in different periods of time, with respect to its real application, encountered with sectional and temporal confusion as well. As such, an increase or decrease in jurisdiction of the above rank was influenced more by policies of each emperor. According to this fact, the issues which are to be dealt w