Journal of Archaeological Studies

Investigating and introducing signs of Achamenid Shekel coins, from the collection of Mazandaran Museum

Saman Soortiji; Kamaleddin Niknami; Hayedeh Khamseh

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2022, , Pages 59-85

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2022.340317.143099

Abstract

The present paper involves the investigation and identification of the insignia of 240 Achamenid shekels, from the collection of the Mazandaran Museum. Investigation of law enforcement ... Read More

Analyzing Ideology Concerning the Royal Power in Neo-Assyria and Achaemenid Monarchies

Bahman Firoozmandi Shirejini; Ali Asghar Salahshoor

Volume 14, Issue 1 , June 2022, , Pages 23-52

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2022.332499.143059

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One of the fundamental features of the ancient states associated with power was ideology, and Neo-Assyria and the Achaemenid empires were no exception to this rule. If we look at the ... Read More One of the fundamental features of the ancient states associated with power was ideology, and Neo-Assyria and the Achaemenid empires were no exception to this rule. If we look at the written and visual documents and evidence of the royal contexts of Neo-Assyria and the Achaemenid, ideology has been at the heart of these two empires. How did they treat the subject people? How was their cooperation and participation with these empires? What was the connection between kings and their god or gods to justify their actions? How did the royal inscriptions and images describe the characteristics of a mighty and powerful king? What were the characteristics of hegemony and the view of domination over the whole world and nations in their views and in what methods was it done? These are the questions that this research seeks to answer to determine the ideological commonalities and differences between these two empires in their royal contexts and whether their ideological strategies and methods have been fundamentally different concerning the verbal and visual violence of the Assyrians? To achieve its goals, this research has examined the inscriptions and images (reliefs, steles, seals) of the royal contexts of these two periods. Concerning the strategies, methods, and concepts studied in this research, such as the mighty and powerful king, universal hegemony, connection between king and god (gods), participation of subject people in advancing the goals of the two empires, large construction projects and building of magnificent monuments, etc. There is not much difference in the royal ideology of the two Neo- Assyria and Achaemenid . Of course, the explicit and barely verbal and visual violence of the Assyrian should not be ignored in their royal reliefs and inscriptions, however, in the written and visual evidence of the Achaemenids, especially in the Persepolis, this violence is not explicitly seen, that is an important feature of the worldview and ideology of the Achaemenid monarchy

Some Observations on the Question of Urbanism in the Central Fars in the Achaemenid Period

Ali Bahadori; HamidReza Valipour

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 19-36

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2019.73097

Abstract

Urbanism as a comprehensive research subject could be explored from various anthropological, social and archaeological points of view. This paper, based on one of these theoretical ... Read More

Human Figure proportionality in the Iranian Achaemenid and Egyptian Arts

Rahim velayati

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 211-227

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2018.225885.142384

Abstract

Achaemenid art is royal Courtly art which has been influenced by subordinate nations arts. The different nations like Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Anatolian. As it is clear that Achaemenid ... Read More

The Mystery of the Central Stone Slab in the Tripylon Gate of Persepolis

Shahrokh Razmjou

Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 69-83

https://doi.org/10.22059/jarcs.2015.57748

Abstract

It has been proposed that some structures at Persepolis served as calendarical or astronomical mechanisms. Despite a general lack of evidence of such functionality at the site, a stone ... Read More

How Darius Build the Suez Canal? Its Political-Economic Impact in Achaemenid Period

Rahim Velāyati

Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2010, , Pages 177-201

Abstract

If we consider the starting of Achaemenian Empire in 559 BC, the year that Cyrus, the second, came to power and its ending in 332 BC, the year that Iran was conquered by Alexander, ... Read More

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Investigating and introducing signs of Achamenid Shekel coins, from the collection of Mazandaran Museum

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Analyzing Ideology Concerning the Royal Power in Neo-Assyria and Achaemenid Monarchies

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Some Observations on the Question of Urbanism in the Central Fars in the Achaemenid Period

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Human Figure proportionality in the Iranian Achaemenid and Egyptian Arts

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The Mystery of the Central Stone Slab in the Tripylon Gate of Persepolis

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How Darius Build the Suez Canal? Its Political-Economic Impact in Achaemenid Period

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