The Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. DABIR aims to quickly and efficiently publish brief notes and reviews relating to the pre-modern world in contact with Iran and Persianate cultures. The journal accepts submissions on art history, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, numismatics, philology and religion, from Jaxartes to the Mediterranean and from the Sumerian period through to and including the Safavid era (3500 BCE-1500 CE). Work dealing with later periods can be considered on request.

Issue 05

Notes

• Hamid Bikas Shourkaei: La satrapie de Phrygie hellespontique (Daskyleion): des originesà la chute de l’Empire perse achéménide.
• Stanley M. Burstein: Ctesias’ Sources: A Suggestion.
• Kiarash Gholami: Some Remarks on the Inscription and Attribution of a Transitional Arab-Sāsānian Dirham from Merv.
• John Hyland: Hystaspes, Gobryas, and elite marriage politics in Teispid Persia.
• Thomas Jügel: The Aramaeogram of the Copula in Zoroast rian Middle Persian and a Note on the 2sg. Optative.
• Firoze M. Kotwal: Incantations For The Fest ival Of The Farmers And For The Consecration Of Gravel (nīrang ī jashan ī burzigarān o nīrang ī sang-rēzā yaštan).
• Firoze M. Kotwal: Religious Injunct ion to be Observed when a Zoroast rian Expires During the Gatha Days.
• Daniel T. Potts: The lands of the Balahute and Lallari.
• Daniel T. Potts: The Persian Gulf in the Cosmographia of the Anonymous Geographer of Ravenna, c. 700 AD.
• Razieh Tassob: Language and Legend in Early Kushan Coinage: Progression and Transformation.

Book Reivews

• Carlo G. Cereti: Review of Foltz, Richard. Religions of Iran: From Prehist ory to the Present. London: Oneworld Publications, 2013. 314pp. ISBN 978-1-78074.
• Sajad Amiri Bavandpour:تَذكره اَربيل (وقايع نامه آربِلا)، متن كهن اثر مؤلف ناشناس، ترجمه محمود فاضلی بيرجندی، تهران، مركز دايره المعارف بزرگ
  .اسلامی (مركز پژوه شهای ايرانی و اسلامی)، ۱۸۵ صص، ۱۳۹۰
• Adam Benkato: Review of Barbati, Chiara. The Christ ian Sogdian Gospel Lect ionary E5 in Context. Veröff entlichungen Zur Iranist ik 81. Wien: Öst erreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft en, 2015.—357pp.
• Yazdan Safaee: Aliyari Babolghani, Salman, Taḥrīr-e ʿīlāmi-ye katibe-ye dāryuš-e bozorg dar bisotūn. pīšgoft ār, dast ur-e ʿīlāmi-ye haḫāmanešī, ḥarfnevisī, tarǧome, moqābele bā taḥrīrhāye digar, yāddāšthā va vāže-nāme [The Elamite Version of Darius the Great’s Inscription at Bisotun. Introduct ion, grammar of Achaemenid Elamite, transliteration, Persian translation, comparison with other versions, notes and index], Tehran: Našr-e Markaz. 1394š/2015. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-964-213-272-0.

Issue 04

I Articles

• Nana and Tish in Sogdiana: The Adoption from Mesopotamia of a Divine Couple
  Matteo Compareti
• Additional Remarks about the Function of the so-called Anahita Temple Monument in Kangavar, Kermanshah: A Clue to Solving an Old Problem
  Sajjad Alibaigi
• Between Myth and History: Susa and Memnon through the Ages
  Daniel T. Potts
• Two Words in the Sogdian Version of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus
  Nicholas Sims-Williams
• On the Chronology and Coinage of Two Iranian Lords in the Umayyad Territories
  Kiarash Gholami
• A Local Revolt in Babylonia during the Reign of Darius III
  Yazdan Safaee
• On Lincoln’s Savior Mithras
  Nina Mazhjoo
• A Historical Overview of the Parsi Settlement in Navsari
  Firoze M. Kotwal
• The End of the Yasna between Philological and Theological Problems
  Antonio Panaino

II Reviews

• Mendoza Forrest, Satnam K. 2011. Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers. The Concept of Evil in Early Iran. Foreword and other contributions by Prod Oktor Skjærvø. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
  Shervin Farridnejad

Issue 03

I Articles

1. From Yima’s Wara to Jamshid’s Throne: Persepolis and the Impact of the Avestan Lore
   Touraj Daryaee
2. Elamo-Hittitica I: An Elamite Goddess in Hittite Court
   Kamyar Abdi
3. Neo-Assyrian Diplomatic Marriage and Divination: A Case Study
   Parsa Daneshmand
4. The hypothetical life of an Middle Iranian particle
   Adam Benkato
5. Methodological and Historiographical Notes on the ‘Paradise’ as an Iranian Royal Institution
   Matthew P. Canepa
6. Saansaan Pirosen: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Kidarites
   Khodadad Rezakhani
7. Avestan ciθra–
   Amir Ahmadi

II Reviews

1. Stoneman, Richard. 2015. Xerxes: A Persian Life. New Haven: Yale University Press. 288 p., £25.00, ISBN 978-0-300-18007-7.
   Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

III Review Article

1. Jongeward, David, Joe Cribb & Peter Donovan. 2014. Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite coins: a catalogue of coins from the American Numismatic Society. New York: The American Numismatic Society. 322 pp., $150, 978-0-89722-334-8.
   Khodadad Rezakhani

IV Special Issue

1. An Overview of the History and Development of the Parsi Priesthood in India up to the 19th Century
   Firoze M. Kotwal

Issue 02

I Articles

1. Victorious: The “Arrogance” of Šāhānšah Xusrō Parvīz
   Keenan Baca-Winters
2. Whipping the Sea and the Earth: Xerxes at the Hellespont and Yima at the Vara
   Touraj Daryaee
3. Dancing in Middle & Classical Persian
   Touraj Daryaee & Nina Mazhjoo
4. The Niyāyišn and the bagas (Brief comments on the so-called Xorde Avesta, 2)
   Götz König
5.  Jamshīdī Nō-Rūz : Facts v/s Myth
   Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal
6. An orgy of Oriental dissipation? Some thoughts on the ‘Camel lekythos’
   Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
7. The Turkish Iranian emigration as perceived by the Maathir al-Umara (1544-1629)
   Marc Morato
8. Survey of Šāhnāme sources. 1. The so-called *Paykār and *Sagēsarān
   Mohesn Zakeri

II Reviews

8. Asatrian, Garnik S. & Viktoria Arakelova. 2014. The religion of the Peacock Angel: the Yezidis and their spirit world.
   Vahé S. Boyajian
9. Shahbazi, A. Shapur, Tārīḫ-e sāsānīān. Tarjome-ye baḫš-e sāsānīān az ketāb-e tārīḫ-e Ṭabarī va moqāyese-ye ān bā tārīḫ-e Bal’amī [Sasanian History. Translation of the Sasanian Section from the History of Ṭabari and its Commparission with the History of Bal’ami], Tehran, Iran University Press, 1389š/2010.
   Touraj Daryaee
10. Timuş, Mihaela. 2015. Cosmogonie et eschatologie: articulations conceptuelles du système religieux zoroastrien. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 54). Paris: Peeters Press.
    Shervin Farridnejad
11. Briant, Pierre. 2015. Darius in the shadow of Alexander. (Trans.) Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
    Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
12. Bridges, Emma. 2014. Imagining Xerxes: ancient perspectives on a Persian king. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

III Obituary

13. Malek Iradj MOCHIRI (1927–2015)
    Ehsan Shavarebi

Issue 01

I Articles

1. A re-examination of two terms in the Elamite version of the Behistun inscription
   Saber Amiri Pariyan
2. Alexander and the Arsacids in the manuscript MU29
   Touraj Daryaee
3. Take care of the xrafstars! A note on Nēr. 7.5
   Shervin Farridnejad
4. The kings of Parthia and Persia: Some considerations on the ‘Iranic’ identity in the Parthian Empire
   Leonardo Gregoratti
5. Brief comments on the so-called Xorde Avesta (1)
   Götz König
6. Some thoughts on the rock-reliefs of ancient Iran
   Ali Mousavi
7. A note on the Alkhan coin type 39 and its legend
   Khodadad Rezakhani
8. Relieving monthly sexual needs: On Pahlavi daštān-māh wizārdan
   Shai Secunda
9. Preliminary observations on word order correspondence in the Zand
   Arash Zeini

II Reviews

10. Smith, Kyle. 2014. The Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba’e
    Sajad Amiri Bavandpoor
11. Mayor, Adrienne. 2014. The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
    Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
12. Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd & James Robson. 2010. CTESIAS’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient
    Yazdan Safaee

III Special Issue

13. Of dirt, diet, and religious others: A theme in Zoroastrian thought
    Bruce Lincoln

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