Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 5/2014

CONTENTS   ARTICLES Edward Lipiński (Brussels, Belgium) Median *ganza- as loanword   Bogdan Burliga (University of Gdańsk, Poland) ἀλγηδόνες ὀμμάτων   Sabine Müller (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Alexanders indischer Schnee, achaimenidische Wassersouvenirs und mental mind mapping   Víctor Alonso Troncoso (University of La Coruña, Spain) The Zoology of Kingship: from Alexander the Great to the Epigoni (336 – c. 250 BC)   Leonardo Gregoratti (Durham University, UK) The Mardians: a Note   Martin Schottky (Germany) Vorarbeiten zu einer Königsliste Kaukasisch-Iberiens. 3. Pharasmanes II. und Xepharnug   Ehsan Shavarebi (Tehran University, Iran) Historical Aspects, Iconographical Factors, Numismatic Issues, Technical Elements: How to Obtain a Convincing Chronology for the Rock Reliefs of Ardashīr I?   Ahmadali Asadi, Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Kouhpar, Javad Neyestani, Alireza Hojabri Nobari (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. Persepolis, Iran) A Recent Late Sasanian Discovery North of the Persian Gulf. A Report on the First Season of Excavations at Tomb-e Pargan in Hormozgan, Iran   Hamidreza Pashazanous, Ehsan Afkande (Tehran University, Iran) The Last Sasanians in Eastern Iran and China   Habib Borjian (Columbia University, USA) A Persian View of the Steppe Iranians   REVIEW ARTICLE   Marek Jan Olbrycht (Rzeszów University, Poland) The Diadem in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods   RECEPTION AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP   Jadwiga Pstrusińska (University of Warsaw, Poland) On the Origin of Iranian-Speaking Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Light of Human Population Genetics   Alexander A. Sinitsyn (Saratov / Saint Petersburg, Russia) Professor John Kinloch Anderson’s Ninetieth Birthday   REVIEWS   Jeffrey D. Lerner (USA) Eduard V. Rtveladze, Velikiī indiīskiī put’: iz istorii vazhneīshikh torgovykh dorog Evrazii, Sankt-Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriīa 2012   Michał Marciak (Poland) Benedikt Eckhardt (Ed.), Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Groups, Normativity, and Rituals, (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism – 155), Leiden – Boston: Brill 2012   Martin Schottky (Germany) Kamilla Twardowska Et Al. (Eds), Within the Circle of Ancient Ideas and Virtues: Studies in Honour of Professor Maria Dzielska, Kraków: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze „Historia Iagellonica“, 2014   Abbreviations   Addresses of Authors