Parthica

INDICE DEI VOLUMI DI PARTHICA

VOL. 1 - 1999

Foreword										p. 7
E. DABROWA
L'expédition de Démétrios II Nicator contre les Parthes, 139 - 138 avant J.C.
B. GOLDMAN
Pictorial graffiti of Dura-Europos										p. 19
A. INVERNIZZI A
Una amazzone di terracotta da Seleucia al Tigri										p. 107
R. VARDANIAN
La monetazione di bronzo elimea del II secolo d.C. Problemi di classificazione e datazione										p. 117
O. LECOMTE
Vehrkānā and Dehistan. Late farming communities of South-West Turkmenistan from the iron age to the Islamic period										p. 135
M.R. MAGISTRO
Il grifone nell’arte dell’antica India										p. 171

VOL. 2 - 2000

J. WIESEHÖFER
Obituary. Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg

In altera parte Orientis. Archaeological Research in Pre-Islamic Central Asia
A. INVERNIZZI
Foreword										p. 11
A. INVERNIZZI
The Square House at Old Nisa										p. 13
T. MKRTYČEV – U. TREINER
The Manufacturing Technique of the Rhytons from Old Nisa
V.N. PILIPKO
On the Wall-Paintings from the Tower-Building of Old Nisa
G.A. KOSELENKO – A.G. LAPSIN – S.V. NOVIKOV
The Mansur-depe Excavations of 1986 – 1987										p. 87
B.A. LITVINSKIJ
A Golden Ring with a Horseman Incised on its Turquoise
B.A. LITVINSKIJ
A Finial from the Temple of the Oxus in Bactria										p. 131
J.L. ŠČAPOVA
On the Material and the Manufacturing Technique of the Finial
from the Temple of the Oxus										p. 143
K. ABDULLAEV
A coin from the Kashkadarya valley with representations of Zeus
and Hercules										p. 147
B.I. MARŠAK
The Ceilings of the Varakhsha Palace										p. 153

Segnalazioni										p. 171
M. Bergmann, "Die Strahlen der Herrscher" (V. Messina)
E. Dabrowa (ed.), "Ancient Iran and the Mediterranean World" (C. Lippolis)
J. Wiesehöfer, "Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse" (C. Lippolis)
"Doura Europos. Études IV. 1991-1993" (A. Invernizzi)
K.S. Freyberger, "Die frühkaiserzeitlichen Heiligtümer der Karawanenstationen in hellenisierten Osten" (C. Lippolis)
A. Kose, "Uruk. Architektur IV. Von den Seleukiden- bis zur Sasanidenzeit" (C. Lippolis)
D. Whitehouse, "The Glass Vessel, Excavations at ed-Dur" (M.M. Negro Ponzi)
V. Sarianidi, "Margiana and Protozoroaastrism" (A. Cellerino)
B. Lyonnet, "Prospections en Bactriane orientale, 2, Céramique et peuplement" (A. Cellerino)
J.-C. Gardin, " Prospections en Bactriane orientale, 3, Description des sites et synthèse" (A. Bollati)
S.N.C. Lieu, "Manichaeism in Central Asia and China" (E. Morano)
P. Guenée, "Bibliographie analytique des ouvrages sur l’art du Gandhāra (A. Provenzali)

VOL. 3 - 2001

V. MESSINA
"Presto sarò re". Seleuco IV come Helios sulle cretule da Seleucia al Tigri										p. 9
R. VARDANYAN
Tendenze culturali e ideologiche nell'impero partico riflesse dalla monetazione										p. 25
A. INVERNIZZI
Arsacid Dynastic Art										p. 133
P. MOLLO
Le sigillature di Nisa Vecchia										p. 159
T. KAIZER
Nemesis, Aglibol and Malakbel. A Note on a Relief from Khirbet Ramadan in the Palmyrène										p. 211

Segnalazioni										p. 221
V.N. Pilipko, "Staraja Nisa. Zdanie s Kvadratnym Zalom" (C. Lippolis)
J. Wolski, "The Seleucids. The decline and fall of their empire" (A. Bollati)
"La Science des Cieux. Sages, Mages, Astrologues", Res Orientales, XII (A. Bollati)
L. Dirven, "The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos" (A. Bollati)
A. Schmidt-Colinet, A. Stauffer, Kh. al-As’ad, "Die Textilien aus Palmyra" (A. Bollati)
G. Le Rider, "Séleucie du Tigre. Les monnaies séleucides et parthes" (V. Messina)
A. Invernizzi, "Sculture di metallo da Nisa. Cultura greca e cultura iranica in Partia" (V. Messina)
"Coins, Art and Chronology. Pre-Islamic History of the Indo-Iranian Borderland" (V. Messina)
M.J. Olbrycht, "Parthia et ulteriores gentes. Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen dem arsakidischen Iran und den Nomaden der eurasischen Steppen" (C. Lippolis)
M. Schuol, "Die Charakene. Ein mesopotamisches Königreich in hellenistisch-parthischer Zeit (C. Lippolis)
M. van Ess, Th. Weber (hrsg.), "Ballbek. Im Bann römischer Monumentalarchitektur" (C. Lippolis)
A. Kalantar, "The Mediaeval Inscriptions of Vanstan, Armenia" (G. Traina)
P.A. Miglus et alii, "Ar-Raqqa I – Die frühislamische Keramik von Tell Aswad (L. Chiocchetti)

VOL. 4 - 2002

A. BADER – V. GAIBOV – A. GUBAEV – G.A. KOSHELENKO – A. LAPSHIN – S. NOVIKOV
Ricerche nel complesso del Tempio Rotondo a Nisa Vecchia										p. 9
C. LIPPOLIS
Nisa-Mithradatkert: l'edificio a nord della Sala Rotonda. Rapporto preliminaredelle campagne di scavo 2000-2001										p. 47
M.M. NEGRO PONZI
The glassware from Seleucia (Central Iraq)										p. 63
A. SCHMIDT-COLINET – KH. AL-ASAD
Archaeological news from Hellenistic Palmyra										p. 157

Segnalazioni										p. 169
R. Gyselen (dir.), "Démons et merveilles d’Orient" (A. Bollati)
"Petra-ez Zantur II. Ergebnisse des Schweizerisch-Liechtensteinschen Ausgrabungen" Teil 1, S.G. Schmidt, "Die Feinkeramik der Nabatäer. Typologie, Chronologie und kulturhistorische Hintergründe". Teil 2, B. Kolb, "Die spätantiken Wohnbauten von ez-Zantur in Petra und der Wohnbau in Palästina vom 4.-6. Jh. N. Chr. " (V. Messina)
M. Novák, A. Oettel, C. Witzel, "Der parthisch-römische Friedhof von Tall Sheik Hamad/Magdala, Teil 1" (C. Lippolis)
M. Konrad, "Der spätrömische Limes in Syrien. Archäologische Untersuchungen an den Grenz-kastellen von Sura, Tetrapyrgium, Cholla und in Resafa" (C. Lippolis)
E. Winter, B. Dignas, "Rom und das Perserreich. Zwei Weltmächte zwischen Konfrontation und Koexistenz" (C. Lippolis)
E. Haerinck, "The Tombs, Excavations at ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates) " (V. Messina)
P. Della Valle, "In viaggio per l’Oriente. Le mummie, Babilonia, Persepoli" (P. Callieri)
W. Hoepfner (Hrsg.), "Antike Bibliotheken" (A. Invernizzi)
A. Hoffmann, S. Kerner (Hrsg.), " Gadara - Gerasa und die Dekapolis" (A. Invernizzi)
Chr. Baumer, "Die südliche Seidenstrasse. Inseln im Sandmeer. Versunkene Kulturen der Wüste Taklamakan" (A. Invernizzi)

VOL. 5 - 2003

Ž. HACĂTRIAN – A.Z. MARKARIAN
I rhyta di Erebuni nel contesto dell’arte achemenide e greco-persiana
V. MESSINA
More gentis Parthicae. Ritratti barbuti di Demetrio II sulle impronte di sigillo da Seleucia al Tigri										p. 21
B.A. LITVINSKIJ
Hellenistic Clay Portraits from the Temple of the Oxus										p. 37
A. INVERNIZZI A.
Isiac Themes at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris										p. 63
A. BOLLATI
Tyche sulle cretule da Seleucia al Tigri										p. 77
A. CELLERINO
Un recipiente in cristallo di rocca da Nisa Vecchia										p. 97
C. TROSSARELLI
Caratterizzazione del recipiente di Nisa mediante esami non distruttivi
D. WEBER
Notes on Some Parthian Names from Nisā										p. 127
N. MANASSERO
Il vaso dipinto di Merv										p. 131

Segnalazioni										p. 155
V.N. Pilipko, "Staraja Nisa – Osnovnye itogi arheologičeskogo izučenija v sovetskij period" (C. Lippolis)
I. Nielsen (ed.), "The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC – Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West" (C. Lippolis)
J. Fornaisier, B. Böttger (Hrsg.), "Das bosporanische Reich. Der Nordosten des Schwarzen Meeres in der Antike" (N. Manassero)
R.S. Bianchi (ed.), B. Schlick-Nolte, G.M. Bernheimer, D. Barag, "Reflections on Ancient Glass from the Borowski Collection. Bible and Museum Jerusalem" (V. Messina)

VOL. 6 - 2004

Parthia and beyond. Cultural Interconnection in the Classical Period. Papers in Honour of Gennadij A. Košelenko

A. INVERNIZZI
Un saluto a Gennadij A. Koselenko										p. 11
V. GAIBOV
G. A. Koselenko’s Bibliography										p. 13
K. ABDULLAEV
New finds of Pre-Kushan and Early Kushan Plastic Art in Northern Bactria and the Khalchayan Reliefs										p. 27
M. ALRAM
The History of the Silk Road as Reflected in Coins										p. 47
G. F. ASSAR
Genealogy and Coinage of the Early Parthian Rulers. I										p. 69
P. CALLIERI
Again on the Chronology of the Tall-e Takht at Pasargadae										p. 95
B. CERASETTI – M. TOSI
Development of the ‘open frontier’ between Iran and Central Asia: the Murghab defensive systems in antiquity and the variants of the Silk Road across the Karakum
E. DABROWA
Les Séleucides et l’Élymaide										p. 107
S.B. DOWNEY
Zeus the Greatest in Syria										p. 117
R.N. FRYE
Parthians in the East										p. 129
A. INVERNIZZI
Thoughts on Parthian Nisa										p. 133
P. LERICHE
La rue principale d’Europos-Doura: nouvelles interprétations										p. 145
C. LIPPOLIS
Nisa-Mithradatkert: l’edificio a nord della Sala Rotonda. Rapporto preliminare delle campagne di scavo 2002-2003										p. 161
L. MARTINEZ-SÈVE
Les figurines de Masjid-i Soleiman et les relations entre Suse et l’Élymaide										p. 179
R. VENCO RICCIARDI
Immagini graffite dall’edificio A di Hatra										p. 203
ST J. SIMPSON,
‘Baubo’ at Merv										p. 227
M. SOMMER
The Desert and the Sown. Imperial Supremacy and Local Culture in Partho-Roman Mesopotamia										p. 235
D. WEBER
The Coin Legend Tanlismaidates and Related Problems										p. 247

VOL. 7 - 2005

Festschrift Józef Wolski

A. INVERNIZZI
A Józef Wolski per i suoi 75 anni										p. 11
E. DABROVA
Bibliography of the scholarly publications of Professor Józef Wolski										p. 13
Z.D. KACHATRJAN
Archaeological Research in Artaxata. Preliminary Report 2003-2004										p. 19
G. F. ASSAR,
Genealogy and Coinage of the Early Parthian Rulers. II. A Revised Stemma										p. 29
E. DABROWA
Les Grecs sous les drapeaux des Arsacides										p. 65
A. INVERNIZZI
Representations of gods in Parthian Nisa										p. 71
R. MENEGAZZI
Le figure femminili ammantate nella coroplastica di Seleucia al Tigri										p. 81
N. MANASSERO
Riflessioni su un rhyton del Miho Museum										p. 93
S. B. DOWNEY
A goddess and a votary or an image and a worshipper? Comments on a Sculptural
Group from Dura-Europos										p. 113
L. DIRVEN
SEMEION, smy’, signum. A note on the Romanization of the Semitic cultic standard										p. 119
B. JACOBS – R. ROLLINGER
Die ‘himmlischen Hände’ der Götter - Zu zwei neuen Datierungs-vorschlägen für die kommagenischen Reliefstelen										p. 137
A. PROVENZALI
La figura infantile nella prima arte gandharica: modelli e corrispondenze significanti										p. 155

Vol. 8 - 2006

Bernard Marvin Goldman 1922-2006										p. 9

Papers presented to David Sellwood

A. INVERNIZZI
A David Sellwood in occasione dei suoi 80 anni										p. 13
G.F. ASSAR
Bibliography of David Sellwood										p. 15
V. MESSINA
Nike on the clay sealings from Seleucia on the Tigris										p. 17
G. F. ASSAR, M. GHASSEM BAGLOO
An Early Parthian ‘Victory’ Coin										p. 25
E. DABROWA
The Conquests of Mithridates I and the Numismatic Evidence										p. 37
A. M. SIMONETTA
Overstrikes, mules, modified dies and retouched coins in the Arsacid coinage: a discussion of their significance										p. 41
G. F. ASSAR
A Revised Parthian Chronology of the period 91-55 BC										p. 55
R. VARDANYAN
Some remarks on the arrangement of the Parthian ‘Dark Age’ coin series										p. 105
S. WINKELMANN
Waffen und Waffenträger auf parthischen Münzen										p. 131
A. KORN
Parthian Month Names and Calendars										p. 153
J. GASLAIN J.-Y. MALEUVRE
Auguste et les Arsacides, ou le prix des enseignes										p. 169
F. KHADEMI NADOOSHAN, F. ARKAN, A. R. ARKAN, M. SAFFARI
Scythian in Eastern border of Parthia: a numismatic evidence										p. 195

Vol. 9 - 2007

A. M. SIMONETTA
The coinage of the Cappadocian kings: a revision and a catalogue of the Simonetta Collection	p. 9
E. V. RTVELADZE
Alessandro in Battriana e Sogdiana	p. 153
M. COMPARETI
The eight pointed rosette: a possible important emblem in Sasanian heraldry	p. 205

Vol. 10 - 2008

A. INVERNIZZI
On the occasion of 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Nisa rhytons	p. 9
V.M. MASSON
The discovery of the parthian rhytons in the royal treasury at Old Nisa	p. 19
E. DABROWA
The political propaganda of the first arsacids and its target (from Arsaces I to Mithradates II)	p. 25
V.N. PILIPKO
The central ensemble of the fortress Mihrdatkirt. Layout and chronology	p. 33
C. LIPPOLIS – V. MESSINA
Preliminary report on the 2007 italian excavations in Parthian Nisa	p. 53
E. PAPPALARDO
The rhyton n. 52 from Old Nisa. An interpretative proposal	p. 63
N. MANASSERO
Têtes coupées on the cornices of the Nisa rhyta. Nothing to do with Dyonisus?
V.A. GAIBOV – G.A. KOSHELENKO
A horseman charging a foot-soldier: a new subject in parthian glyptic art	p. 99
G. PUSCHNIGG
Hellenistic echoes in Parthian Merv: transformation and adaptation in the ceramic repertoire	p. 109
B. KAIM B
The Parthian settlements in the Serakhs oasis	p. 129
K. ABDULLAEV
A bactrian gold buckle with the contest between a hero and a centaur (Herakles and Nessos?)	p. 135

Vol. 11 - 2009

Afghanistan, i tesori ritrovati
Atti del Convegno di Torino (Palazzo Chiablese, 24 ottobre 2007)

Premessa	p. 11
Introduzione alla Giornata	p. 13
Introduzione al Convegno	p. 15
P. CAMBON
Le Musee Guimet et l�Afghanistan	p. 17
S. SAIFI
Testimonianze del Museo di Kabul	p. 29
P. BERNARD
La decouverte et la fouille du site hellenistique d�Ai Khanoum en Afghanistan: comment elles se sont faites	p. 33
A. FILIGENZI
La Missione Archeologica Italiana in Afghanistan dell�IsIAO: cinquant�anni di ricerche, scoperte, incontri	p. 57
G. DE PALMA
Intervento italiano dell�ISCR nella conservazione per il Museo di Kabul	p. 71
A. INVERNIZZI
Arte ellenistica in Asia Centrale	p. 81
F. COARELLI
Ritorno a Begram	p. 95
A. SANTORO
Influssi di cultura indiana	p. 103
V. SHILTZ
L�art nomade a Tillia Tepe	p. 113
P. PIACENTINI
Arte iranica e produzione orafa a Tillia Tepe	p. 119

Vol. 12 - 2010

A. INVERNIZZI
On the occasion of 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Nisa rhytons	p. 9
V.M. MASSON
The discovery of the parthian rhytons in the royal treasury at Old Nisa	p. 19
E. DABROWA
The political propaganda of the first arsacids and its target (from Arsaces I to Mithradates II)	p. 25
V.N. PILIPKO
The central ensemble of the fortress Mihrdatkirt. Layout and chronology	p. 33
C. LIPPOLIS – V. MESSINA
Preliminary report on the 2007 italian excavations in Parthian Nisa	p. 53
E. PAPPALARDO
The rhyton n. 52 from Old Nisa. An interpretative proposal	p. 63
N. MANASSERO
Têtes coupées on the cornices of the Nisa rhyta. Nothing to do with Dyonisus?
V.A. GAIBOV – G.A. KOSHELENKO
A horseman charging a foot-soldier: a new subject in parthian glyptic art	p. 99
G. PUSCHNIGG
Hellenistic echoes in Parthian Merv: transformation and adaptation in the ceramic repertoire	p. 109
B. KAIM B
The Parthian settlements in the Serakhs oasis	p. 129
K. ABDULLAEV
A bactrian gold buckle with the contest between a hero and a centaur (Herakles and Nessos?)	p. 135

Vol. 11 - 2009

Afghanistan, i tesori ritrovati
Atti del Convegno di Torino (Palazzo Chiablese, 24 ottobre 2007)

Premessa	p. 11
Introduzione alla Giornata	p. 13
Introduzione al Convegno	p. 15
P. CAMBON
Le Musee Guimet et l’Afghanistan	p. 17
S. SAIFI
Testimonianze del Museo di Kabul	p. 29
P. BERNARD
La decouverte et la fouille du site hellenistique d’Ai Khanoum en Afghanistan: comment elles se sont faites	p. 33
A. FILIGENZI
La Missione Archeologica Italiana in Afghanistan dell’IsIAO: cinquant’anni di ricerche, scoperte, incontri	p. 57
G. DE PALMA
Intervento italiano dell’ISCR nella conservazione per il Museo di Kabul	p. 71
A. INVERNIZZI
Arte ellenistica in Asia Centrale	p. 81
F. COARELLI
Ritorno a Begram	p. 95
A. SANTORO
Influssi di cultura indiana	p. 103
V. SHILTZ
L’art nomade a Tillia Tepe	p. 113
P. PIACENTINI
Arte iranica e produzione orafa a Tillia Tepe	p. 119

Vol. 12 - 2010

A. INVERNIZZI
On the occasion of 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Nisa rhytons	p. 9
V.M. MASSON
The discovery of the parthian rhytons in the royal treasury at Old Nisa	p. 19
E. DABROWA
The political propaganda of the first arsacids and its target (from Arsaces I to Mithradates II)	p. 25
V.N. PILIPKO
The central ensemble of the fortress Mihrdatkirt. Layout and chronology	p. 33
C. LIPPOLIS – V. MESSINA
Preliminary report on the 2007 italian excavations in Parthian Nisa	p. 53
E. PAPPALARDO
The rhyton n. 52 from Old Nisa. An interpretative proposal	p. 63
N. MANASSERO
Têtes coupées on the cornices of the Nisa rhyta. Nothing to do with Dyonisus?
V.A. GAIBOV – G.A. KOSHELENKO
A horseman charging a foot-soldier: a new subject in parthian glyptic art	p. 99
G. PUSCHNIGG
Hellenistic echoes in Parthian Merv: transformation and adaptation in the ceramic repertoire	p. 109
B. KAIM B
The Parthian settlements in the Serakhs oasis	p. 129
K. ABDULLAEV
A bactrian gold buckle with the contest between a hero and a centaur (Herakles and Nessos?)	p. 135