Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period

Editor's Note Introduction - John Curtis Terence Mitchell's Published Works 1. Five Unpublished Persepolis Relief Fragments in the Ashmolean Museum - Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2. Where Did the Persian Kings Live in Babylon? - John Curtis, Curator Emeritus, British Museum; Director, Iran Heritage Foundation 3. The Use of Seals in Babylonia under the Achaemenids - Christopher Walker, Curator Emeritus, British Museum 4. An Iranian in the Court of King Nebuchadnezzar - Alan Millard, Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool 5. Biblical Archaeology in the Persian Period - Terence Mitchell, lately Curator Emeritus, British Museum 6. The Textual Connections between the Cyrus Cylinder and the Bible, with Particular Reference to Isaiah - Shahrokh Razmjou, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran 7. Interpreting Sasanian Beards: Significant Images in an Interconnected World - Prudence Harper, Curator Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art 8. Sasanian-Zoroastrian Intellectual Life in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD - Mahnaz Moazami, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica, University of Columbia Index of selected place-names and personal names