Am-Ar ENTRIES: CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure 33. Amānat Khan's Signature on the Dome of the Tāj Maḥall. |
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Figure 1. Silver stater coin of Amastris, queen in Paphlagonia. Obverse: the queen's head in profile. Reverse: seated Aphrodite/Anāhid, holding the figure of Victory; inscription: AMASTRIEŌN “of the Amastrians” (B. V. Head, Historia Numorum. A Manual of Greek Numismatics, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1911, p. 505, fig. 264) |
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Figure 1. Amir-Aʿlam. |
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Figure 1. Amir-Ṭahmāsebi. |
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Plate XXXIV. Āmol Ware Bowl, Incised through a white slip under a transparent lead glaze, copper oxide green decoration, red body outside undecorated and unglazed. Late 6th-early 7th/late 12th-early 13th century. Width: 28.2cm (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. x395). |
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Plate XL. Ṭāq-e Bostān. Carved Capital with Anāhitā, ca. 7th Cent. A.D. Photo by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier. |
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ANĀHĪD |
Plate XLI. Silver dirham. Bahrām II (276-293 A.D.) American Numismatic Society N.Y., 1944-100.30175. |
ANĀHĪD |
Plate XXXIX. Ṭāq-e Bostān. Rock Relief with Investiture of Ḵosrow II (A.D. 592-628) by Ohrmazd with Anāhitā. Photo by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier. |
ANĀHĪD |
Plate XXXVII. Eṣṭaḵr. Fragmentary Architectural Relief with Anāhitā, ca. 3rd-4th Cent. A.D. Photo by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier. |
ANĀHĪD |
Plate XXXVIII. Naqš-e Rostam. Rock relief with investiture of Narseh (A.D. 290-303) by Anāhitā. Photo by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier. |
Figure 1. Sketch-map of the eastern end of the silk route, showing (in parentheses) the Sogdian forms of place-names occurring in the |
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Figure 2. Grape Production by ostān—1973 (Source: Natāyeǰ-e saršomārī-e kešāvarzī, marḥala-ye awwal) CPr = Central Province; ČMB = 07-Čahār-Maḥāl (l) and Baḵtīārī; KBA = Kohgīlūya and Boir Aḥmad; B = Būšehr; S = Sāḥelī; SB = Sīstān and Balūčestan. |
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Plate I. Anhalt Carpet Medallion Rug: Golden Yellow, Red, Blue; Cotton and Silk; Knotting: Wool, ca. 400 per sq. Inch. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation (through Rush H. Kress, 1946 (46.128). |
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Figure 1. Silver coin of Mark Antony. Obverse: bust of Antony within a wreath of ivy; inscription: M.ANTONIUS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT (m antonius imperator consul designatus iterum et tertio “M. Antony, commander, elected consul again and for the third time”). Reverse: bust of Octavia, wife of Antony, with Dionysiac motifs—intertwined serpents and the box (cista) used for carrying cult utensils; inscription: III.VIR. R.P.C. (triumvir reipublicae constituendae “triumvir of the republic subject to law”) (B. V. Head, A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, from circ. B. C. 70 to A. D. 1, London, 1881, pp. 110-11, no. VII A 31, pl. 63). |
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Figure 3. Anzalī (Bandar-e Pahlavī). |
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Figure 4. Partly restored ground plans of the Apadāna at Susa (a) and of the Apadāna at Persepolis (b). After Perrot and Schmidt. |
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Figure 1. E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of Paradise . . ., vol. I, London, 1904. |
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Figure 1. Photograph of Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani. (Courtsey of Centre for Iranian Documentation and Research, Amsterdam) |
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Figure 1. Faraj-Allāh Āqevli. |
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Figure 6. Godin Tepe. Plan of the Godin II structures. |
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ARCHEOLOGY ii. Median and Achaemenid |
Figure 7. Tepe Nush-i Jan. Plan including the four principal buildings: the Central Temple (1), the Western Temple (the Old Western Building) (2), the Fort (3), and the Columned Hall (4) |
ARCHEOLOGY ii. Median and Achaemenid |
Figure 8. Map of Iran showing the approximate boundaries of the nine ceramic zones into which thepottery of the Achaemenid period can be divided |
ARCHEOLOGY ii. Median and Achaemenid |
Plate III. The stepped triangular sanctuary of the Central Temple at Tepe Nush-i Jan. The partly reburied fire altar stands in the fore ground |
ARCHEOLOGY ii. Median and Achaemenid |
Plate IV. A silver spoon with a swan’s head handle. Passargadae, second half of the Achaemenid period |
Figure 10. The Kushan Culture of Northern Bactria (1st-4th Centuries A.D.). 1-2. Bone. 3-4. Whorls. 5-9. Brick marks. 10. Arch. 11-13. Architectural Details. 14. Kiln. 15-26. Pottery. 27-30. Marks on Pottery. 31. Plan of the Town of Zar Tepe. 32-34. Coins. 35-38. Terra-cotta. 30-40. Buddhist Artifacts |
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ARCHEOLOGY v. Pre-Islamic Central Asia |
Figure 9. The Culture of Altyn Tepe (2300-1850 B.C.) |
Figure 1. Major archeological sites in the Republic of Azerbaijan |
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Figure 11. Taḵt-e Solaymān (Šēz): Fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp and the palace complex |
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ARCHITECTURE iii. Sasanian Period |
Figure 12. Ardašīr's castle of Qalʿa-ye Doḵtar, Fīrūzābād |
ARCHITECTURE iii. Sasanian Period |
Plate V. Palace of Ardašīr I at Fīrūzābād, Fārs |
Figure 1. taḥrir register dating back to the late 16th century (TD, nos. 645, 648). |
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ARCHIVES i. Turkish archives concerning Iran |
Figure 2. taḥrir register on Georgia and Armenia (TD, no. 903, pp. 4-6; Mehmedov, 1990, pp. 201-3). |
ARCHIVES i. Turkish archives concerning Iran |
Figure 3. Bāb-ı Defterī (Treasury) register (MAD, nos. 590, 3959, 10171, 22216). |
Figure 13. The primary and secondary systems of the upper left quarter of the London “Ardabīl” carpet, inverted to show the lamp hanging correctly. |
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Figure 14. Ardašīr’s triumph-relief at Fīrūzābād (drawn by E. Smekens) |
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ARDAŠĪR I ii. Rock reliefs |
Figure 15. Ardašīr’s investiture by Ohrmazd. Rock relief at Naqš-e Raǰab (drawn by E. Smekens) |
ARDAŠĪR I ii. Rock reliefs |
Plate VI A. Ardašīr’s investiture by Ohrmazd. Bridge relief at Fīrūzābād |
ARDAŠĪR I ii. Rock reliefs |
Plate VI B. Ardašīr investiture by Ohrmazd. Rock relief at Naqš-e Rostam |
ARDAŠĪR I ii. Rock reliefs |
Plate VI C. Detail from the battle of Hormozgān: Šāpūr overthrowing Dādbondāḏ (cf. Figure 14) |
ARDAŠĪR I ii. Rock reliefs |
Plate VI D. Detail from the battle of Hormozgān: Ardašīr overthrowing Ardavān V (cf. Figure 14) |
Plate VII. Arg-e Karīm Khan, Shiraz (Photo J. R. Perry) |
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Figure 1. Portrait of Khalil Arjomand (courtesy of the author). |
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ARJOMAND, Ḵalil |
Figure 2. ARJ Welding Transformer (courtesy of the author). |
ARJOMAND, Ḵalil |
Figure 3. View of the front gate of the ARJ plant (courtesy of the author). |
ARJOMAND, Ḵalil |
Figure 4. View of the main worshop of the ARJ plant (courtesy of the author). |
ARJOMAND, Ḵalil |
Figure 5. ARJ pump (courtesy of the author). |
Figure 16. Rock carvings at Fīrūzābād, 3rd century A.D. (drawings by Russell Robinson). A. Prince Šāpūr. B. Persian knight unseating a Parthian. C. Parthian grand vizier being unhorsed by Prince Šāpūr.e 16 |
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ARMOR |
Figure 17. Rock carving of Ḵosrow II at Ṭāq-e Bostān (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 18. Sogdian warrior, from a silver dish in the Hermitage, Leningrad (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 19. Depictions of armor on a late 12th-century mīnāʾī dish in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington (drawing Mrs. W. V. Chattoe, courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art) |
ARMOR |
Figure 20. Mongol warrior from the Royal Asiatic Society’s manuscript of Rašīd-al-dīn’s Jāmeʿ al-tawārīḵ, dated 714/1314-15 (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 21. Laminated horse armor, from the Royal Asiatic Society’s Šāh-nāma of Solṭān Jūkī, Herat ca. 1440 A.D. (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 22. Rostam, from the Šāh-nāma of Ebrāhīm Solṭān in the Bodleian Library, Shiraz ca. 1433-34 A.D. (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 23. Warrior in detached miniature painting, ca. 1540 A.D., Royal Scottish Museum (drawing Russell Robinson) |
ARMOR |
Figure 24. Warriors in a miniature from a Šāh-nāma, ca. 1618-19. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (drawing Russell Robinson) |
Figure 25. Structure of Military and Police Forces |
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Plate IX. Drachms and obols, with attributions by D. Sellwood. |
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ARSACIDS iii. Arsacid Coinage |
Plate VIII. Tetradrachms from Seleucia, attributable, according to Sellwood, to the reigns of: 1. Mithradates I; 2. Artabanus I; 3. Mithradates II; 4. Phraates III; 5-6. Orodes II; 7. Phraates IV; 8. Phraates V (with the queen Mūsa); 9. Vonones I; 10. Artabanus II; 11. Vologases II; 12. Vologases IV. (Courtesy of the Institut für Numismatik, University of Vienna). |
Figure 26. Illustrations to ART IN IRAN i |
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ART IN IRAN i. NEOLITHIC TO MEDIAN |
Figure 27. Gold Bowl from Ḥasanlū (Drawing by Maude de Schauensee) |
ART IN IRAN i. NEOLITHIC TO MEDIAN |
Figure 28. Ḥasanlū Level IV B. |
ART IN IRAN i. NEOLITHIC TO MEDIAN |
Plate X. Illustrations to ART IN IRAN i. |
ART IN IRAN i. NEOLITHIC TO MEDIAN |
Plate XI. Illustrations to ART IN IRAN i. |
ART IN IRAN i. NEOLITHIC TO MEDIAN |
Plate XII. Illustrations to ART IN IRAN i. |
Figure 29. Bronze plaque with an inscription of a king of Abbadana, seen by E. Herzfeld at Hamadān before 1930; now in The Metropolitan Museum, New York |
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ART IN IRAN ii. Median Art and Architecture |
Figure 30. Cylinder seal with owner's inscription, seen by E. Herzfeld at Hammadān before 1930. |
ART IN IRAN ii. Median Art and Architecture |
Figure 31. Cylinder seal impression from Nūš-e jān in provincial neo-Assyrian style. |
ART IN IRAN ii. Median Art and Architecture |
Figure 32. Reconstruction of a bronze jug from Hamadān by L. Le Breton |
ART IN IRAN ii. Median Art and Architecture |
Figure 33. Distribution map of spouted bronze jugs with knob decoration |
Figure 34. Pasargadae: Garden with (from down left to upper right) Gateways, |
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ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 35. Pasargadae: Winged genius in the side door of the Gateway Building. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 36. Babylon: Fragment of Darius' head. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 37. Persepolis: The terrace in its earlier stages, under Darius I and Xerxes. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 38. Susa: Guard from the palace's courtyard. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 39. Susa: Palaces on Tell de l'Apadāna and beyond the river. From J. Perrot, op. cit. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 40. Susa: Statue of Darius I from the Gateway Building. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 41. Persepolis: Median and Persian |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 42. Persepolis, buildings in the plain: Bullae with seal impressions. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 43. Persepolis: Left corner of the royal tomb no. V |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 44. Persepolis: Kūh-e Raḥmat with fortifications, tombs, terrace, and buildings in the plain. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 45. Oxus Treasure: Gold votive plaques nos. (left to right) 73, 58, 56, 72, and 61. |
ART IN IRAN iii. Achaemenid Art and Architecture |
Figure 46. Oxus Treasure: Detail from the gold sheath of an akinakes |
Figure 47. Silk routes of Central Asia. |
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ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Figure 48. Map of eastern Iran and Soviet Central Asia showing early medieval sites. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Figure 49. Reconstruction of part of a Sogdian private residence at Panjikent, datable to the late seventh to early eighth century CE. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Figure 50. Sketch of a mail-clad warrior from a heroic cycle in a Sogdian mural from Panjikent VI. 55, north wall. Late seventh to early eighth century CE. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Plate XIII. Marble sculpture from the early Parthian capital at Nisa, in Soviet Turkmenia. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Plate XIV. Painted clay image of a princely personage from the early Kushan palace at Khalchayan, southern Uzbekistan SSR. 1st-2nd century A.D. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Plate XV. Terra-cotta ossuary figure from the Choresmian fort at Koĭ-krylgan-kala, Uzbekistan SSR, 2nd-3rd century A.D. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Plate XVI. Representation of a Bodhisattva, in a mural from the Māyā Cave, Qïzïl. Museum für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen, Berlin. |
ART IN IRAN vi. PRE-ISLAMIC EASTERN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA |
Plate XVII. Representation of donors in a mural from the Devil's Cave, Qïzïl. |
Plate XIX. Kermānšāh, Takīa of Mo ʿāwen-al-Molk. Overglaze painted tile in |
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ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XVIII. Qazvīn, Masǰed-e Šāh. Mosaic tilework. Early 19th century |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XX. Tehran, summer palace of ʿEšratābād: andarūn. |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXI. Tehran, summer palace of Salṭanatābād. |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXII. Tehran, Golestān: Garden wall, polychrome overglaze painted tiles. Late 19th century. |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXIII. Tehran, Golestān Palace: Interior |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXIV. Girl acrobat balancing on a knife. Ca. 1840. |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXV. Portrait of a prince holding a flintlock. Moḥammad Ḥasan. Early 19th century. |
ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 1. General |
Plate XXVI. Lacquer qalamdāns. Iran, mid-19th century. |
Plate XXVII. Cup, painted enamel. Iran, 19th century. McClean Collection. Height 5½ |
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ART IN IRAN x. Qajar 2. Painting |
Plate XXVIII. Gold enameled qalyān bowl by Kāẓem b. NaǰafʿAlī. About 1870. Private collection. |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 1. The plan and the ayvān longitudinal section of the Sasanian building at Tepe Hissar (Dāmḡān, Iran), 6th century (after A Survey of Persian Art, figs. 166 and 167b |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 2. The plan and a round pier of the Tārik-ḵāna at Dāmḡān (Iran), 8th century (after Creswell and Allan, figs. 163 and 164). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 3. A detail of the plan of the ʿEmārat-e Ḵosrow at Qaṣr-e Širin (Iran), 590-628 (after Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte, Rome, 1972, XII, fig. at column 221). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 4. A detail of the plan of the dār al-ʿemāra at Kufa (Iraq), II level, most probably 670-672 (after Creswell and Allan, fig. 2). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 5. Four axial ayvāns fronting a domed room in the Abbasid dār al-ʿemāra of Merv (Turkmenistan), 747-755 (after Creswell and Allan, fig. 136). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 6. A bayt formed by an ayvān with a pair of flanking rooms and a portico of three arches in the ʿEmārat-e Ḵosrow at Qaṣr-e Širin (Iran), 590-628 (left), and at Oḵayżer (Iraq), second half of the 8th century (after Creswell and Allan, fig. 85C-D). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 7. Brass ewer inlaid with copper and silver from Khorasan, 12th-13th century, Modena, Galleria Estense, inv. No. 6921 (after Eredità dell’Islam, ed. G. Curatola, Milan, 1993, ill. 125). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 8. A ceramic vessel in the shape of a deer, Northern Iran, 1200-900 B.C.E., Tehran, National Museum, inv. No. 2441 (after 7000 Jahre persische Kunst, ed. W. Seipel, Vienna, 2000, ill. 95). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 9. A bronze deer-shaped ewer, Egypt, 11th century, Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, inv. No. A.M. 138798 (after U. Scerrato, Metalli islamici, Milan, 1960, fig. 31). |
ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART |
Figure 10. Floor painting from Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Ḡarbi, 724-727 CE. |
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Originally Published: January 1, 2000
Last Updated: June 28, 2015