David Stronach

Biographic Data

ID1019817
NAMEDavid Stronach
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEStronach
SIGNATURESTRONACH D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS117
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX6

  • Media

    Open AccessBruno Jacobs, David StronachOTHERA Companion to the Achaemenid…2021References: 1

  • Achaemenid Dynasty

    Open AccessDavid StronachCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2019

    The Achaemenid Persian Dynasty begins, strictly speaking, with the accession of Darius I (r. 522–486 bce ) and ends, nearly two hundred years later, with Alexander of Macedon's conquest of Iran in 330. It is traditional, however, to refer to Cyrus II (r. 559–530), who descends from a separate royal line, as the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Accordingly, this entry will not only examine important aspects of the reign of Darius I, as well as ke…

  • Mid-Parthian Pottery from Building V at Shahr-i Qumis

    Ruth Stronach, David Stronach et al.ARTICLEIran2019References: 13

    This paper introduces the pottery of mid-Parthian date from Building V at Shahr-i Qumis, a major Parthian settlement that dates, at least in part, from the second and the first centuries BC, and which lies some thirty km to the west of Damghan. A little over two thousand years ago the local water supply appears to have been adequate to support a site that was notable for its monumental mud-brick architecture as well as for its pottery, which incl…

  • Cyrus and the Kingship of Anshan: Further Perspectives

    David StronachARTICLEIran2013Cited by: 1References: 8

    In the text of his Babylonian cylinder Cyrus the Great indicates that the kernel of his personal title includes the phrase “king of the city of Anshan” and that each of his predecessors was known as a “great king, king of the city of Anshan”. In one view that has been current for most of the past decade these titles should be read literally, and serious consideration should be given to the possibility that Cyrus founded an Anshanite empire rather…

  • Apadana

    Open AccessDavid StronachCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The word apadana denoting a tall, squareshaped audience hall, occurs in only four Old Persian texts.

  • Ecbatana (Hamadan)

    Open AccessDavid StronachCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    An agreeable summer climate, plentiful water supplies, and a strategic location on the east‐west highroad linking the Iranian Plateau with Mesopotamia have combined to make Hamadan one of Iran's most enduring cities.

  • Alternative Explanations for Anomalous 14 C Ages on Human Skeletons Associated with the 612 BCE Destruction of Nineveh

    Open AccessR E Taylor, Will C Beaumont et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2010Cited by: 4References: 15

    Three factors—contamination, a dietary reservoir effect, and a regional δ 14 C anomaly—are considered as possible contributing explanations for an almost 2-century offset between the historically documented age of 612 BCE and the calibrated ages of 9 14 C determinations obtained on 3 human skeletons directly associated stratigraphically with an archaeologically—and historically—defined 612 BCE event at the ancient site of Nineveh in northern Meso…

  • Erebuni 2007

    David Stronach, Felix TER-MARTIROSOV et al.ARTICLEIranica Antiqua2009

  • Obituaries

    Charles Melville, Carole Hillenbrand et al.ARTICLEIran2009References: 4

  • Obituaries

    Robert Hillenbrand, David Bivar et al.ARTICLEIran2006

  • The Arjan Tomb

    David StronachARTICLEIranica Antiqua2005

  • Iran, ancient

    Dominique Collon, Judith Pullar et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Icons of dominion

    David StronachARTICLEIranica Antiqua2002

  • The 1994 Excavations of the Daghestan-American Archaeological Expedition to Velikent in Southern Daghestan, Russia

    Magomed G Gadzhiev, Philip L Kohl et al.ARTICLEIran1995

    Magomed G. Gadzhiev, Philip L. Kohl, Rabadan G. Magomedov, David Stronach, The 1994 Excavations of the Daghestan-American Archaeological Expedition to Velikent in Southern Daghestan, Russia, Iran, Vol. 33 (1995), pp. 139-147

  • Parterres and stone watercourses at Pasargadae: Notes on the Achaemenid contribution to garden design

    David StronachARTICLEThe Journal of Garden History1994Cited by: 3References: 1

    Until only a few years ago it was a still prevalent opinion that the celebrated garden carpets of sixteenth-century Safavid Iran provided the oldest extant evidence for the form of the early Persian garden.1 From the appearance of such carpets it was already clear that Safavid gardens included numerous water channels, multiple parterres, and a centrally placed garden pavilion which often stood within a rectangular pool on the long axis of the pla…

  • Preliminary Report on the 1993 Excavations at Horom, Armenia

    Ruben S Badaljan, Philip L Kohl et al.ARTICLEIran1994Cited by: 8

    Article sur les fouilles internationales menees en Armenie et en Georgie en 1993. Dans le premier pays il s'agit de recherches pluriannuelles qui ont permis d'etudier l'occupation d'Arartu sur le site d'Horom. Les fouilles georgiennes sont moins consequantes mais ont permis de relever des occupations paleolithique, du Bronze et du Fer

  • Preliminary Report on the 1992 Excavations at Horom, Armenia

    Ruben S Badaljan, Christopher Edens et al.ARTICLEIran1993Cited by: 7

    Rapport preliminaires de fouilles conjointes americano-armeniennes, menees depuis 1990 en Armenie du nord-ouest. Apres un expose des prospections, les AA. parlent d'un site d'habitat fortifie qui a livre des occupations du Bronze ancien au Fer

  • Early Achaemenid Coinage

    David StronachARTICLEIranica Antiqua1989

    Etude iconographique du monnayage achemenide qui represente le roi en archer comme defenseur de l'ordre etabli, en relation avec le role cosmique du souverain

  • Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture

    David Stronach, Lionel BierARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1989Cited by: 6

  • On the Evolution of the Early Iranian Fire Temple

    David StronachCHAPTERPapers in Honour of Professor…1985

  • The Cambridge History of Iran

    Open AccessI M Diakonoff, J HANSMAN et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of Iran1985

    The second volume describes the formation, in the sixth century BC, of the earliest multi-national empire, its administration, its confrontation with Greece, and its eventual dissolution under the impact of Alexander's conquest of Iran in 331 BC. This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire Middle East, and embraced figures of the stature of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes. The sources for this period are more diverse than for any ot…

  • Standing Stones in the Atrek Region: The Ḥālat Nabī Cemetery

    David Stronach, William R RoyceARTICLEIran1981

    (1981). Standing Stones in the Atrek Region: The Ḥālat Nabī Cemetery. Iran: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 147-150

  • Pasargadae. A Report on the Excavations Conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963

    Louis Levine, Louis D Levine et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1980

  • Survey of Excavations in Iran: 1978

    David Stronach, Wolfram Kleiss et al.ARTICLEIran1979Cited by: 1

    David Stronach, Wolfram Kleiss, Michael Rosenberg, D. Huff, Charles Burney, Hossein Bakhtiari, David Stronach, Judith Pullar, Rosalind Howell, E. J. Keall, Survey of Excavations in Iran: 1978, Iran, Vol. 17 (1979), pp. 143-159

  • Pasargadae: A Report on the Excavations Conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963

    Michael M Eisman, David StronachARTICLEThe American Historical Review1979Cited by: 19

    A report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963