"The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. It was where old religions met more recent arrivals, and where both new and old were transformed as a result of this contact. While some religious communities shared m…
"Theophilus of Edessa was a Greek astrologer and scholar in the court of the Muslim caliphs in the eighth century. Making use of his fluency in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, he brought together historical sources from each language to comprise a single chronicle that charted world-…
The chronicle of Theophilus of Edessa is no longer extant, but it was cited extensively by a number of later historians and Robert Hoyland has collected and translated all these citations so as to give an impression of the scope and content of the original text.
Der vorliegende Band ist der erste in der Reihe?Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum? (SNS), der einen geschlossenen Schatzfund vorstellt. Der Schatz wurde im Jahr 2007 in der Region Piran-Shahr im Nordwesten des Iran gefunden und zählt zu den größten und bedeutendsten sasanidenzeitlich…