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Sasanian Clay Sealings in the Bandar Abbas Museum
Kamal Aldin Niknami and Sona Naderi
This book presents the newly discovered assemblage of 800 Sasanian clay sealings which is now kept in the Persian Gulf Museum of Bandar Abbas, Iran. In 2012, this collection was confiscated in Bandar Khamir, Hormozgan Province when in transit from Iran to UAE, and was delivered to the Hormozgan Center of Cultural Heritage Organization. Unfortunately the provenance of the collection is still unknown, but in comparison with the large Sasanian archives of Qasr- ? Abu Nasr and Taxt- i Soleyman, which comprise 505 and 241 clay sealings, respectively, such a large number of clay sealings is remarkable. The book introduces this new and hitherto unpublished archive of Sasanian clay sealings and we hope that the archive in question will expand our knowledge of Sasanian economic systems.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
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1. Introduction
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2. The Early Administrative System of the Ancient Near East
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3. Administrative Centralization in the Sasanian Bureaucratic Structure
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4. Sasanian Seals and Clay Sealings
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5. The Persian Gulf Clay Sealing Collection in the Bandar Abbas Museum
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6. The Iconographic Analysis of the Sealings
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7. Chronological Remarks
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8. The Catalogue
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9. References
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Published: 2016
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407314877 (paperback)
- 9781407344454 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2819