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The article discusses the date of the Middle Persian text "Cities of Eranshahr" in the light of Sasanian primary sources and of the Khwaday-namag, a chronicle of Sasanian kings that has only survived in Arabic tradition. Accordying to the author, the Middle persian text contains important information that date back to the sasanian period.

Un team congiunto di ricercatori curdi e italiani guidati dall’autore di questo contributo lavora dal 2006 presso il Monumento di Pāikūlī nella provincia curdo-irachena di Sulaymāniya. Esso venne eretto per volontà del re Narseh nell’area, sita ai confini nord-orientali della provincia dell’Asōrestān, in cui aveva ricevuto giuramento di fedeltà da una delegazione di nobili e dignitari dell’Ērānšahr una volta asceso al trono sasanide in seguito alla vittoria in Armenia su Wahrām III.

Il volume è il risultato delle ricerche, degli studi e dei viaggi che gli autori, nel quadro di accordi interuniversitari, hanno compiuto in Iran: un paese che distorte visioni e vicende geopolitiche hanno reso distante ed estraneo mentre la memoria storica ci conferma quanto esso ci sia vicino e quanto profondamente sia intrecciato alla nostra storia e alle radici della nostra cultura.

Six opaque glazed samples from Istakhr have been analysed:93 four come from the 2012 campaign of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission (samples 13, 14, 17, 30) and two from the campaigns conducted by E. Herzfeld in the 1930s (samples 15, 29; table 2). These archaeometrical analyses mainly focused on the ceramic bodies and glazes.

The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary description of a specific group of wheel-made monochrome painted ware belonging to the pottery corpus from the excavations in Istakhr carried out in 2012 by the Joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission. This pottery production is mostly characterised by closed forms with geometric-vegetal motifs painted in red or black; at times the painted decoration is associated with incised or carved motifs.

This paper presents the preliminary study of the pottery corpus from the archaeological
site of Estakhr (Fars, Iran) found during the excavations conducted by the Italian-Iranian
Archaeological Mission between 2012 and 2016. The study of ceramic assemblages (from the
9th to possibly the 13th centuries) has been fundamental to date the phases identified within
the stratigraphy.

This paper deals with the excavation of the trench carried out at Istakhr in 2012, to the west of the site of the mosque. The results of the excavation, compared with Herzfeld’s archaeological tests dating to 1932, provided new insights into the arrangement of the buildings in the area and, more generally, the planning of this sector of the city during the early Islamic period.

This paper deals with the excavation of the trench carried out at Istakhr in 2012, to the west of the site of the mosque. The results of the excavation, compared with Herzfeld’s archaeological tests dating to 1932, provided new insights into the arrangement of the buildings in the area and, more generally, the planning of this sector of the city during the early Islamic period.