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  • LUKONIN, Vladimir Grigor’evich

    Muhammad Dandamayev and Inna Medvedskaya

    (1932-1984), outstanding Russian scholar in the field of history and history of culture and arts of ancient Iran, from the earliest times until the end of the Sasanian period. He published and introduced to scholarship many artifacts of Iranian culture preserved at the Hermitage Museum.

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  • LULUBI

    Ran Zadok

    country of a people who probably originated in southern Kurdistan; the form of the name is identical in both Sumerian and Akkadian, namely Lulubi and Lulubum respectively.

  • LURISTAN

    Multiple Authors

    major province in Iran

  • LURISTAN iv. The Origin of Nomadism

    Inge Demant Mortensen and Peder Mortensen

    The large valleys and plains of Luristan are exceedingly fertile.  They have often been described as suited for agriculture as well as for pastoral nomadism, which seems to have been the prevailing lifestyle for hundreds of years.

  • LURISTAN v. Religion, Rituals, and Popular Beliefs

    Inge Demant Mortensen

    Lur society has been living within the framework of Islam, but under conditions and circumstances that encouraged rather than restricted a free display of popular traditions.

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  • LURISTAN BRONZES i. THE FIELD RESEARCH

    Bruno Overlaet

    The label “Luristan bronzes”  designates a series of decorated bronze objects in a specific local style dating from the Iron Age (ca. 1300/1250 to 700/650 BCE). These bronzes became known through large-scale illegal excavations starting in the late 1920s.

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  • LURISTAN BRONZES ii. CHRONOLOGY

    Bruno Overlaet

    The first documented Luristan bronze acquired by a European museum, “a master of animals idol,” was purchased in 1854 by the British Museum. The first publication about a Luristan bronze in a scholarly journal (1918) attributed a Luristan horse bit with decorated cheek pieces to Armenia.

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  • LUSCHEY, Heinz

    Wolfram Kleiss

    After his military service during the Second World War, Luschey worked as an assistant at the Archaeological Seminar of the University of Tübingen. In 1956 he became assistant director of the Istanbul branch of the German Archaeological Institute.

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  • LUT

    Cross-Reference

    Persian word meaning “desert.” See DESERT.

  • LUṬI

    Willem Floor

    A Persian term with a variety of meanings, with both positive and negative connotations.