The World of Achaemenid Persia
Conference - Abstracts/Biographies
29 September - 1 October 2005
Clore Education Centre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Over 50 speakers will discuss the Achaemenid dynasty. The focus of discussions will be history/historiography, new sources, art & architecture, gender, political continuity/change, iconography, religion, origins & legacy.
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CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE PASSING OF THE THRONE FROM XERXES TO ARTAXERXES I OR HOW AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBSERVATION CAN POTENTIALLY SHED SOME LIGHT ON A QUESTION IN ACHAEMENID HISTORIOGRAPHY
Kamyar Abdi, Dartmouth College
CULTURAL TRANSITION IN IRANIAN AZERBAIJAN THROUGH IRON AGE II - ACHAEMENID PERIOD: THE EVIDENCE OF RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND EXCAVATIONS
Bahram Adjerloo, Nazar Institute, Tehran
PERSEPOLIS - A RECONSTRUCTION
Kourosh Afhami, Sheda Vasseghi & Wolfgang Gambke, Persepolis3D
ACHAEMENID ARABIA: NEW PERSPECTIVES
Bjoern Anderson, University of Michigan
TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GOLD WORK FROM THE OXUS TREASURE
Barbara R Armbruster, University of Toulouse Le Mirail
THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF BABYLONIAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE NEO-BABYLONIAN AND ACHAEMENID PERIODS
Heather D Baker, Institut fuer Orientalistik, Universitaet Wien
ACHAEMENID PRACTICE OF PRIMARY BURIAL: AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THEIR ZOROASTRIANISM? OR A TESTIMONY TO THEIR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE?
ANCIENT PERSIA AS VIEWED THROUGH THE MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Pierre Briant, Collège de France
THE ROYAL AUDIENCE SCENE REVISITED: WOMEN AT THE ACHAEMENID COURT
Maria Brosius, University of Newcastle
FROM SUSA TO EGYPT: GLAZED AND VITREOUS OBJECTS FROM THE PERSIAN ERA IN RELATION TO AN EXHIBITION AT THE LOUVRE MUSEUM (JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2005)
COINS OF PERSIS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE ACHAEMENIDS AND THE SASANIANS
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The British Museum
AN ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE COIN HOARD OF THE OXUS TREASURE
Mehdi Daryaie, National Museum of Iran
ANATOLIAN CROSSROADS: ACHAEMENID SEALS FROM SARDIS TO GORDION
Elspeth R M Dusinberre, University of Colorado
PRESTIGE DRINKING: RHYTA WITH ANIMAL FOREPARTS FROM PERSIA TO GREECE
Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard University
BECAUSE OF THE DREAD UPON THEM
Lisbeth S Fried, University of Michigan
CYRUS THE MEDE AND DARIUS THE ACHAEMENID?
Richard Nelson Frye, formerly Harvard University
ARCHERS AT PERSEPOLIS: THE EMERGENCE OF ROYAL IDEOLOGY AT THE HEART OF THE EMPIRE
Mark B Garrison, Trinity University - San Antonio
XERXES AND THE TOWER OF BABEL
Andrew R George, SOAS, University of London
WHY COLUMNED HALLS?
Hilary Gopnik, Franklin & Marshall University
RE-DISCOVERING ACHAEMENID PERSIA: THE 'ACHAEMENID HISTORY WORKSHOP' REVISITED
Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool
ROYAL JUDGES IN ACHAEMENID MESOPOTAMIA
Shalom E Holtz, University of Pennsylvania
ACHAEMENID AND GREEK COLOURLESS GLASS
Despina Ignatiadou, Archaeological Museum - Thessaloniki, Greece
CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE PASSING FROM THE SEPULCHRE OF CYRUS TO THE ROCK-CUT TOMB OF DARIUS: EXPRESSIONS OF A CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS BREAK?
Bruno Jacobs, Seminar fuer Klassische Archaeologie, Universitaet Basel
LIGHT FROM ARAMAIC DOCUMENTS
Anke Joisten-Prushke, Georg-August Universitaet - Goettingen
AHURA MAZDA IS A 'DIEU CRÉATEUR'
Albert De Jong, University of Leiden
SEAL IMPRESSIONS ON CLAY TAGS FROM PHRYGIA
Deniz Kaptan, University of Nevada - Reno
RELIGION UNDER THE ACHAEMENIDS: PRESUPPOSITIONS, QUESTIONS, FACTS
Philip G Kreyenbroek, Georg-August Universitaet - Goettingen
A REASSESSMENT OF XERXES AND THE BABYLONIAN TEMPLES IN THE LIGHT OF SOME RECENT EVIDENCE
Amelie Kuhrt, University College London
EQUAL IN STATUS: AN ACHAEMENID SEAL OF A WOMAN ENTHRONED
THE ARCHER COINS: A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF ACHAEMENID ART IN ASIA MINOR
Yannick Lintz, Musée du Louvre
THE BIG AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN OF ASIA: PICTURING FEMALE SEXUALITY IN GRECO-PERSIAN SEALS
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, University of Edinburgh
PORTRAITS OF THE ACHAEMENID KINGS IN ENGLISH DRAMA: 16TH - 18TH CENTURIES
THE ROLE OF BABYLONIAN TEMPLES IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARMY IN THE EARLY ACHAEMENID EMPIRE
John MacGinnis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research - Cambridge
ON THE EDGE OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE: RECENT RESEARCH IN NORTH-WEST PAKISTAN
Peter Magee, Bryn Mawr College
A RE-ASSESSMENT OF MOTIFS FOUND ON BAKED BRICKS FROM ACHAEMENID SUSA
Sabrina Maras, University of California - Berkeley
IN SEARCH OF PARSEH: PERSEPOLIS SEEN AS A LARGE URBAN CENTRE OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE
Ali Mousavi, University of California - Berkeley
EMPIRE ENCAPSULATED: THE PERSEPOLIS APADANA FOUNDATION DEPOSITS
Cindy Nimchuk, University of Illinois - Springfield
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDEMCE FOR ACHAEMENID SETTLEMENT PATTERNS WITHIN THE MAMASANI VALLEYS, WESTERN FARS (IRAN)
Cameron Petrie, Sommerville College, University of Oxford; Alireza Asgari-Chaverdi, ICHTO - Shiraz; Bernadette McCall, University of Sydney & Mojgan Seyedin, Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research
ACHAEMENID INTERESTS IN THE PERSIAN GULF
Daniel Thomas Potts, University of Sydney
PERSEPOLIS: RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE PALACES AND THEIR FUNCTION
Shahrokh Razmjou, National Museum of Iran
THE ROLE OF THE MEDES IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ACHAEMENIDS
Michael Roaf, Institut fuer Vorderasiatische Archaeologie, Universitaet Muenchen
THE PERIODICITY OF ACHAEMENID ROYAL DRESS
Nicolas Sekunda, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Torun
AN ACHAEMENID SILVER BOWL FROM MAZANDERAN
St John Simpson & Michael R Cowell, The British Museum
THE FORMATION OF ACHAEMENID IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE AVESTA
A REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND RESTORATION ACTIVITIES AT PARSA - PASARGADAE: AN ANALYSIS, EVALUATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
Mohammad Hassan Talebian, Choga Zanbil & Persepolis Projects
THE ACHAEMENID ARMY IN A NEAR EASTERN CONTEXT
Nigel Tallis, The British Museum
ALL THE KINGS MEN: VASSAL RELATIONS WITHIN THE PERSIAN ELITE?
Christopher Tuplin, University of Liverpool
INTEGRATION OF FOREIGNERS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE STELA FOUND IN SAQQARA IN 1994
Melanie Wasmuth, Institut fuer Vorderasiatische Archaeologie, Universitaet Muenchen
CYRUS, THE MEDES, AND THE PERSIANS
Matt Waters, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
PERSIANS AND CENTRAL ASIANS: A HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE
Wu Xin, University of Pennsylvania
THE ORIGINS OF THE ACHAEMENIDS
Sima Yadollahi & Abbas Yalvaee, University of Tehran