Achaemenid culture and local traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran : : new discoveries / / edited by Askold Ivantchik and Vakhtang Licheli.

This book contains papers representing the results of the latest research into the relationship between the ‘imperial’ culture of the Achaemenids and local traditions. Some of them are devoted to the Southern Caucasus, especially to latest archaeological excavations and to investigations into specif...

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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles 2007
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
Notes:"The content of this volume is a reprint of volume 13, issue 1-2 (2007) of Ancient civilizations from Scythia to Siberia"--P. [4] of cover.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Askold Ivantchik, Vakhtang Licheli
  • Picturing Persian victory : the painted battle scene on the Munich wood / Latife Summerer
  • An Achaemenid "palace" at Qarajamirli (Azerbaijan) : preliminary report on the excavations in 2006 / Ilyas Babaev, Iulon Gagoshidze, Florian S. Knau
  • An iron age settlement in the Udabno-Steppe, Eastern Kakheti / Jens Nieling, Dongus Tapa
  • Oriental innovations in Samtskhe (Southern Georgia) in the 1st millenium BC / Vakhtang Licheli
  • The toreutics of Colchis in the 5th-4th Centuries BC. Local traditions, outside influences, innovations / Mikhail Treister
  • Iranian glass perfume vessel from the Pichvnari Greek cemetery of the fifth century BC / Amiran Kakhidze
  • Achaemenian seals found in Georgia / Ketevan Dzhavakhishvili
  • Wall painting from Dahaneh-ye Gholaman (Sistan) / S. Mansur Seyyed Sajjadi.