Vol. 46/1 (2017)

En hommage à notre collègue et ami membre du comité de rédaction Jean Calmard, 19 décembre 1931, Paris – 2 mai 2017, Paris, p. 7-8.

ARTICLES
• SINISI, Fabrizio, “A Seal Imprint from Old Nisa and the (Apollonian) Iconography of Mithra”, p. 9-30.

Summary
A seal impression from Old […]

Vol. 45/1 (2016)

ARTICLES
• KELLENS, Jean, “Unité et diversité du rite avestique”, p. 7-15.

Summary
The three textual layers of the Avesta, the Gâthic, the Haptahâtic and the Young Avestan one, begin oddly by the same lexical sequence: the triad thought-word-deed, the verb to choose and the name of the cow. […]

Vol. 44/1 (2015)

ARTICLES
• M. GAILLARD, “Les origines d’Abu Moslem: de l’incertitude historique à la vraisemblance légendaire”, p. 7

Summary
The evolution of the character of Abu Muslim into a legendary, then a mythical figure, can be observed through two Persian prose romances: the Abū Muslim Nāma (Abū Ṭāhir-i Ṭarṭūsī, 5e-6e/11e-12e c.) […]

Vol. 43/1 (2014)

ARTICLES
• G. ROUGEMONT, avec une note de P. BERNARD, “Grecs et non Grecs dans lеs inscriptions grecques d’Iran et d’Asie centrale”, p. 7-39.

Summary
Between the end of the 4th and the 2nd century B.C., Hellenistic kings founded, both in Iran and Central Asia, Greek city-states (poleis) which […]

Vol. 42/1 (2013)

ARTICLES
• G. LAZARD, “Le verbe persan zadan ‘frapper’, ses constructions et ses emplois”, p. 7-21.

Summary
This article is inspired by P. Samvelian’s recent book on complex predicates in Persian. On the basis of the syntactic constructions, it presents a systematic classification of the meaning of the verb […]

Vol. 41/1 (2012)

ARTICLES
• A. AHMADI, “Religious Regulation of Hospitality in the Gāthās (Y 46.5 & 6)”, p. 7-24.

Summary
More than any other Gāthic text Yasna 46 is concerned with issues that reflect the circumstances of Zarathuštra’s life. This makes it extremely valuable for interpretation of the Gāthās, since here […]

Vol. 40/1 (2011)

ARTICLES
• H. BORJIAN, “The Dialect of Kuhpāya”, p. 7-68.

Summary
Kuhpāyi is a Central Dialect spoken in Kupā township and its piedmont villages, east of Isfahan. While it shares many traits with other Northwestern Iranian dialects of the central Iranian Plateau, Kuhpāyi has many characteristics of its own. […]

Vol. 39/1 (2010)

ARTICLES
• X. de PLANHOL, “Le kārēz et la luzerne : une première Révolution Agricole en Iran”, p. 11-26.

Summary
By the turn of the first millenium B.C., an Agricultural Revolution took place in the Iranian world that was characterised by a combined development of permanent irrigation (obtained through […]

Vol. 38/1 (2009)

ARTICLES
• A. KORN with a collaboration of D. DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, “Parthian seen from a Balochi perspective” p. 7-23.

Summary
This paper argues that the interpretation of Parthian material can profit from the comparison with contemporary North Western Iranian languages. As an example, it contrasts the phonology and etymology of […]

Vol. 37/1 (2008)

ARTICLES
• H. BORJIAN, Two Mazandarani Texts from the Nineteenth Century, p. 7-49.

Summary
This article transcribes, translates, and compiles a glossary for two Mazandarani texts written in 1889 in the town of Barforush and published as facsimiles by Jacques de Morgan. The language of the texts, Mazandarani or […]