elamite documents, and evidence of elamite writing in general, are rare from this period. however from susa under the sukkalmah period, there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian in various legal subjects, like sale, lease, and judicial procedures; this provides the historian with a unique opportunity fir the study of elamite legal and social institutions. the present essay will edit and tr...

the hoard of kalmakarreh includes hundreds of golden and silver wares that were incidentally discovered by a local hunter in 1987 at a northwest 20 kilometer distance to pol-e dokhtar in province of lorestan. the collection includes a variety of dishes, raytheon, human and animal sculptures, masks, plaques, jewelry,… that belongs to the neo- elamite (first millennium bc). this research led to t...

Abstract Glazed decoration in Iran from the Middle Elamite to Achaemenid periods includes world art milestones. With exception of Hasanlu IVB, for most sites, comprehensive chemical and mineralogical data are lacking, owing generally profound alteration vitreous material. To bridge information gap, enable reconstruct operation production chains a diachronic fashion, thirty-six glazed artefacts ...

a survey and analysis of the ancient iranian religion calls for a profound familiarity with the elamite religion and its gods. elamite beliefs played an important role in forming the iranian religion between the 4th millennium bc and the advent of the indo-iranians on the iranian plateau. in this paper, we examine the elamite religious background and the major gods and goddesses that were worsh...

A product of years research, both on and off-site, this volume provides a much-needed documentation corpus eighteen monumental rock reliefs carved between the seventeenth sixth centuries BC in Elamite highland open-air sanctuaries Izeh valley its surrounds (Xong-e Azdhar, Shah Savar, Shekaft-e Salman, Kul-e Farah, Qal-e Tul), Mamasani river district (Kurangun), Marvdasht plain (Naqsh-e Rustam)....

Noting the poorly known historical geography of Elamite coastal region Persian Gulf during first half millennium BCE, author proceeds to contribute new knowledge on topic by investigating toponym(s) Nagitu, an settlement that appears quite frequently in Neo-Assyrian sources with various postpositions: Nagitu-raqqi “island-in-the-marshes”, Nagitu-di’bina “coastal town-of-rocks”, or Nagitu-of-Ela...