It seems fitting that, at a seminar organized to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Numismatic Society of India, I present a paper that offers a solution to a problem even older than the Society. In 1905, E. J. Rapson had published a small group of five coins which he identified as „Coins with reverse type “Svastika.”‟ 2 The coins were unified by the presence on their reverses of a central...

the decentralized structure of the arsacid empire brought both positive and negative consequences to the country. despite all confusions, this particular political trend helped ancient and local traditions to grow and flourish. at this time pars although has been isolated but played an important role to guard and respect the basic ideologies of the past achaemenids. persis kings’ coins minted f...

INTRODUCTION Contact with nickel-releasing coins as a cause of hand dermatitis has been debated. AIM Studying a hand dermatitis risk from handling Kuwaiti cupronickel coins among nickel-allergic and nickel non-allergic subjects. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred hand dermatitis patients (group I: nickel-allergic) and 100 matched patients (group II: nickel non-allergic) were selected from ove...

despite the lack of a clear understanding of the relationships of eastern and southeastern arabia with different iranian regions during pre-sassanian era and the paucity of written evidence from this period, the huge corpus of archaeological evidence obtained from this region and the few available historical documents show that the region maintained close contacts with iran and was under legal ...

This article proposes an interpretive framework of paradox and wonder as a new approach to understanding the affective properties social consequences miniature objects in archaeological record. Building upon current scholarly theories miniatures inherently intimate, this accounts for how small-scale artworks were also designed deliberately manufactured elude user attempts at full sensory access...

, published , doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0046 62 2008 Notes Rec. R. Soc. Anna Marie Roos of astrological sigils in the Oldenburg Letters 'Magic coins' and 'magic squares': the discovery References #ref-list-1 http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/62/3/271.full.html This article cites 10 articles Email alerting service here in the box at the top right-hand corner of the article or click Rec...

BACKGROUND Along with the newly emergence of paleoparasitology research in Iran, findings of parasites from Northern part of the county have not been reported so far. In this study tracking for the lancet liver fluke dates back 250 BC is addressed. METHODS Samples were taken from grave crypts of the soil layers attached to the pelvic bones from above-mentioned site in 2015. The laboratory exa...

This prototype demonstrate a novel method for learning to find transliterations of proper nouns on the Web based on query expansion aimed at maximizing the probability of retrieving transliterations from existing search engines. Since the method we used involves learning the morphological relationships between names and their transliterations, we refer to this IR-based approach as morphological...