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...

background: melanoma causes the greatest morbidity and mortality of all skin cancers. mucosal melanoma is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. according to previous studies the prevalence of kit mutations in acrallentiginous and mucosal melanomas is relatively low (less than 15–20%), but it can have profound therapeutic implications for localized high risk or metastatic diseases. our goal was...

there are only a few old elamite documents available today; however there are more than 500 legal documents from susa, written in akkadian, that provide us with a unique chance to study legal and social institutions of elam in the sukkalmah period. the present study will edit and translate three lease documents from the sukkalmah period, which are known as esip-tabal contracts. a comparative st...

the phoneme /l/ is one of the phonemes of persian, which has different origins. a few of which is unknown. this article studies the historical change of /l/ phoneme and phonemes and clusters which are the origins of /l/, from proto indo- european to indo- iranian, old iranian and middle and new persian. in adition, the historical change of other phonems such as group of consonants , which are o...