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Robert Göbl, Der Sâsânidische Siegelkanon: Handbüicher der Mitielasiatischen Nunismatik. Vol. 4 (Braunsweig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1973). Pp. x + 72 + 42 pls. DM 85.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Judith Lerner
Judith Lerner
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Smith College
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 313 - 315
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References

1 The history of this interest is provided by Bivar, A. D. H., Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Stamp Seals, II: The Sajsanian Dynasty (London, 1969), pp. 1–5.Google Scholar

2 Borisov, A. Ja. and Lukonin, V. G., Sasanidskie gesniny: Katalog obraniya gosudarstven-nogo ermigazha (Leningrad, 1963),Google Scholar and Bivar, op. cit.Google Scholar

3 Frye, R. N., Sasanian Seals in the Collection of Mohsen Foroughi, Portfolio II of The Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Part III: Pahlevi Inscriptions. VI: Seals and Coins (London, 1971).Google Scholar

4 Nawnann, R., ‘Takht-i Suleiman und Zendan-i Suleiman’, Archäologischer Anzeiger (1965), pp. 643–50;Google ScholarGöbl, R., “Die sasanidischen Tonbullen vom Takht-i Suleiman und die Probleme der sasanidischen Sphragistik’, Acta Antiqua Acade, niae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 19 (1971), 95–112;Google Scholar the full publication by Gobi of the bullae from the site should soon be available; Harper, P. O., in Frye, R. N. (ed.), Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr: Seals, Sealings, and Coins, Harvard Iranian Series, 1 (Cambridge, 1973),Google Scholar published while Der sdsânidische Siegelkanon was in press (Göbl's access to the Qasr-i Abu Nasr material was through Wilkinson, C. K, ‘Notes on the Sasanian Seals Found at Kasr-i Abu Nasr’, Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 31 (1936), 176–82). A third collection of Sasanian sealings has been discovered at Ak-Depe in Turkmenistan, but a complete and illustrated publication has not been forthcoming.Google Scholar

5 Bivar, op. cit. pp. 9–10.Google Scholar

6 It should be noted here that one of the seals used to illustrate 6 c (P1. 3, bottom row, second from the right; in the British Museum) is not Sasanian. It was not included by Bivar and may be late or post-Achaemenid if not actually Parthian.Google Scholar

7 This was recognized by Bivar, op. cit. p. 67,Google Scholar and by Borisov and Lukonin, op. cit. p. 107.Google Scholar

8 Frye, , Foroughi, pl. 40, 79.Google Scholar

9 D.112 and D.421.Google Scholar

10 Besides the well-known pair at Taq-i Bustan, a Nike-like figure occurs on one of the Qasr-i Abu Nasr sealings, D.95.Google Scholar