Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus
in Remote and Classical Antiquity

Iranian Material




6th-4th Centuries B.C.

Achaemenid Inscriptions
The Foreign Trade of Armenia in the Period of the Ancient Persian Empire by H. A. Manandian.


3rd Century B.C.-3rd Century A.D.

Online Texts Concerning Parthia.
The Development of Trade and Cities in the Reign of Tigran the Second by H. A. Manandian.


3rd-7th Centuries A.D.

Karnamak: The Deeds of Ardashir First Sasanian King (224-240).
Kartir's Inscription on the Kabah of Zoroaster.
Kartir's Inscription at Naqsh-i Rajab.

Trade and Trade Centers in Armenia in the Roman-Parthian and the Byzantine-Sasanian Period by H. A. Manandian.

Sassanid Empire Wikipedia article. Excellent summary and links.


Mythology

Iranian Mythology by Albert J. Carnoy.
Analogies in Iranian and Armenian Folklore by Eugene Wilhelm.
Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus in Ancient Mythologies (Indo-Iranian Mythology section) by Robert Bedrosian.


Art History

Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Iran 8000-2000 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Iran 2000-1000 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Iran 1000 B.C.- 1 A.D.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Iran 1 - 500 A.D.


Armeniaca/Caucasica

The Zoroastrian Religion in Armenia by Mardiros Ananikian, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. 1 (1908), pp. 794-802

Iran, Armenia, and Georgia by David Marshall Lang (Cambridge, 1983).

Iranians in Asia Minor by Leo Raditsa (Cambridge, 1983).

Manichaeism and Its Iranian Background by George Widengren (Cambridge, 1983).

Mazdakism by Ehsan Yarshater (Cambridge, 1983).

Some Armeniaca and Caucasica from Encyclopaedia Iranica online.

Selected Writings of Michael Rostovtzeff.
Selected Writings of W. W. Tarn.

Articles and Essays. Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS) website.
Persia, at Livius.org.
Iranian Texts, Sacred and secular at Avesta.org.
Site Index for Parthia.com. Excellent primary and secondary sources.

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M. Rostovtzeff [Rostovtsev]'s important Iranians and Greeks in South Russia (Oxford, 1922) [origin and history of the Scythians] is available for download in .pdf format here (14 MB).
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