Domiziana Rossi
Biographic Data
| ID | 9050143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Domiziana Rossi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Domiziana |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossi |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3608-4731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Soundscapes of Eranshahr
Aspects of the sensory experience of past environments, such as tastes, smells, textures (including of food), sounds, and other sensory stimuli, cannot be fully reconstructed and appreciated with archaeological evidence alone. Interpreting the importance of sounds from archaeological evidence presents challenges due to the ephemeral nature of sound and biases inherent in historical sources. The recreation of soundscapes, closely associated with s…
From the Fire Temple to the Mosque
This paper is an analysis of the change in urban spaces in the former Sasanian empire after the Arab-Muslim conquest. How events shaped the population’s life is reflected by how urban society shaped the spaces within the city. Paradigmatic of this is the case of religious spaces. In a syncretic empire such as the Sasanian Ērānšahr (224–650 CE), places of worship were not limited to fire altars and temples, there were also churches and synagogues …
St John Simpson. “Heavy metal and the beauty industry
In this short but concise and very informative paper, Simpson illustrates the history of use of cosmetic in the Middle East. This overview does not stop to list the results of various isotopic analysis carried out on the different pigments found, but it also examines different tradition of storing cosmetics. Past is closely entwined with the present as some cosmetic flasks are among the items identified and returned by the British Museum while mo…
Carlo G. Cereti. “Are the provincial capitals of Ērānšahr really Provincial Capitals?”
This paper contributes to our understanding of Sasanian concepts and the simple but effective methodology could be used in other similar studies to analyse other Middle Persian terms, for instance ahr
Jens Kröger. “Sasanian Stucco”
This overview of Sasanian stuccoes includes sites divided chronologically – without losing sight of the regional premises. The iconographic repertoire found in the sites hitherto found had been then catalogued in ornamental, plant, figural, animal, and monograms. Noteworthy is the paragraph on the transmission of the Sasanian iconographic and architectural decorations. Although just a few motifs influenced Byzantine decorative language, several w…
Carlo G. Cereti. “From Middle to New Persian
After the Arab-Muslim conquest (c. 650 CE), what we know of Middle Persian literacy in the territory known as rnahr is still little documented. Precisely, there is little evidence about linguistic developments during the first two centuries but for an extract allegedly written by ibn al-Muqaffa. Most of scholars' debate on this passage is based on the studied evidence -mainly, the inscriptions found on the south western part of the Sasanian empir…
Ehsan Shavarebi, Sajad Amiri Bavandpour. “A Note on the Temple of Anāhīd-Ardašīr at Estakhr and the Martyrdom of Abbot Baršebyā”
After publishing “The Temples of Anāhīd at Estakhr (Southern Iran): Historical Documents and Archaeological Evidence” (2018) in Juraj Belaj et al. (ed.). Sacralization of Landscape and Sacred Places, (Zbornik Instituta za Arheologiju Serta Instituti ArchaeologiciKknjiga, 10), Zabreb p. 179-194), Shavarebi was contacted by Amiri Bavandpour who offered an important piece of information about the Anāhīd temples at Estakhr. These two temples are ment…
Rémy Boucharlat. « Découvertes récentes de stucs en Iran sassanide et problèmes d’interprétation »
This overview on Sasanian stuccoes includes the Parthian sites hinting at a transmission of iconographies (i.e., Qaleh-I Zohak and Qaleh-I Yazdgird), and also sites with uncertain chronological attribution. On the one hand, it underlines the lack of Sasanian sites within the Iranian plateau, and on the other hand, how the majority of stuccoes was found in the western territories. Noteworthy is the examination and the illustrations of some archaeo…
Josef Wiesehöfer. “Women of the Sassanid Dynasty (224-651 CE)”
Although there is much evidence on Sasanian kings, we know little about their wives – not even the two attested ruling queens of the dynasty. Foreign and non-contemporary narratives often help to reconstruct this female world, with all the related problematics. Wiesehöfer divides royal women into three ‘chronological’ paragraphs, based on primary (i.e., rock reliefs, seals, inscriptions, coins, silver vessels), foreign (including internal sources…
Michael R. Jackson Bonner. The Last Empire of Iran
M. R. Jackson Bonner states that his narrative of Sasanian political history has been written for a general audience by avoiding academic debates and historiographical digressions. This much needed handbook consists of nine chapters in which Sasanian history is assessed within the context of all its neighbours; from the Iberian territories, to the Armenian struggles, the Chinese embassies, the relationships with the nomads of Hira, political deve…
Mohammadreza Nemati, Mehdi Mousavinia, Eberhard Sauer, Carlo G. Cereti. “Largest Ancient Fortress of South-West Asia and the Western World? Recent Fieldwork at Sasanian Qaleh Iraj at Pishva, Iran”
The vastness of the monument known as Qaleh Iraj (1.6 x 1.3 km!), close by the modern Tehran, raised many questions on its chronology and function. Was it the ancient Ray, the four-corner city of Varena, a park for royal hunt, or a fort? In this paper, the results of surveys, excavations, satellite imagery, and textual analysis are combined to provide answers. In terms of domestic architecture, just a clay floor on a cobblestone bedding had been …
Andrea Squitieri. “The Sasanian Cemetery of Gird-I Bazar in the Peshdar Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
In the site of Gird-i Bazar in the Sulaymaniyah province, a Sasanian cemetery was found installed over, and partly damaging, the older Iron Age structures. Although Zoroastrians notoriously exposed the bodies and then placed the bones into astodans, inhumations are not uncommon in such a multi-cultural empire. After mentioning the Sasanian cemeteries found in the same region and underlining the presence of a large Christian community in Adiabene,…
Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi. “The Gravity of New City Formations
At the start of the paper, Mofidi-Nasrabadi correctly points out the lack of information on cities of Susiana, such as Gondishapur and Eyvan-e Karkheh. After a summarized and useful overview of the textual mentions of Gondishapur, Mofidi-Nasrabadi proceeds in a re-evaluation of the archaeological data. The first premise to this methodological approach is that the urbanisation process of a new city results in the depopulation of the surrounding vi…
Parsa Ghasemi, Reza Noruzi, Aziz Rezaei, Mosayeb Amiri, Ebrahim Ghezelbash. “Čāhārbāzār. Preliminary Report on the Identification of a Large Archaeological Site in Farāšband, in the Sasanian Province …
A large possibly Sasanian archaeological site, knowns as Čāhārbāzār, was identified 11 km east of Farāšband, in the Bani-Qatār plain of Bačun. Thanks to an approach combining field survey with analysis of remote sensing of aerial photo and satellite imagery, further study had been carried out adding a piece of our knowledge on archaeology of Fars. Previously this site was believed to be a caravanserai and a kušk, but this groundbreaking research …
Ali Hozhabri. “Proposing a Function for Char-Ghapi, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran
One of the buildings of the Qasr-e Shirin complex, known as Char-Ghapi, is analysed in this paper by Hozhabri. After a summary of the literature on this chahar-taghi, correlated by an amazing set of images and a thorough and detailed description of the building, the author compares features of fire-temples and churches built during Sasanian period. It turns out that the Char-Ghapi has more characteristics in common with churches than fire-temples…
St John Simpson. “Ard Maysan and the Land behind Basrah in Late Antiquity”
The economic function of the wetlands and marshes of the Ard Maysan region is laid out through a multi-disciplinary approach. Ethnographic comparisons, historical and archaeological evidence, and the presence of three crucial Sasanian urban centres confirm the existence of relationships between a diverse range of communities. Still unclear is the development of Sasanian maritime trade and this re-assessment of the significance of the region hints…
Giulio Maresca. “Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-Western Iran during the Sasanian Period
Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and their function in the facilitation of irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific Sasanian administrative centralisation. The author stresses the continuity of investments in infrastructures, from the Arsacids to the Islamic period via the Sasanians. It is presented that members of elite governing classes as well as private entrepreneurs provid…
Touraj Daryaee. “From Zoroastrian to Islamic Iran
this dating is still uncertain, surely from Khusrow II's reign to the coming of Hajjab b. Yusuf's reforms Christians acquired more and more power
A Road to Fīrūzābād
A serpentine path created by the river Tang-āb through the Zagros Mountains has always been the only access from north to the city of Ardašīr-Xwarrah, located at five kilometers west from the modern Fīrūzābād, in Iran. This inaccessibility prompted the king of Fārs Ardašīr to found his stronghold against the Arsacid power here. This path endured the fall of the Sasanian Empire throughout Islamic times as a crossroads of the routes connecting the …
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A Road to Fīrūzābād
A serpentine path created by the river Tang-āb through the Zagros Mountains has always been the only access from north to the city of Ardašīr-Xwarrah, located at five kilometers west from the modern Fīrūzābād, in Iran. This inaccessibility prompted the king of Fārs Ardašīr to found his stronghold against the Arsacid power here. This path endured the fall of the Sasanian Empire throughout Islamic times as a crossroads of the routes connecting the …
Carlo G. Cereti. “Are the provincial capitals of Ērānšahr really Provincial Capitals?”
This paper contributes to our understanding of Sasanian concepts and the simple but effective methodology could be used in other similar studies to analyse other Middle Persian terms, for instance ahr
Jens Kröger. “Sasanian Stucco”
This overview of Sasanian stuccoes includes sites divided chronologically – without losing sight of the regional premises. The iconographic repertoire found in the sites hitherto found had been then catalogued in ornamental, plant, figural, animal, and monograms. Noteworthy is the paragraph on the transmission of the Sasanian iconographic and architectural decorations. Although just a few motifs influenced Byzantine decorative language, several w…
Carlo G. Cereti. “From Middle to New Persian
After the Arab-Muslim conquest (c. 650 CE), what we know of Middle Persian literacy in the territory known as rnahr is still little documented. Precisely, there is little evidence about linguistic developments during the first two centuries but for an extract allegedly written by ibn al-Muqaffa. Most of scholars' debate on this passage is based on the studied evidence -mainly, the inscriptions found on the south western part of the Sasanian empir…
Ehsan Shavarebi, Sajad Amiri Bavandpour. “A Note on the Temple of Anāhīd-Ardašīr at Estakhr and the Martyrdom of Abbot Baršebyā”
After publishing “The Temples of Anāhīd at Estakhr (Southern Iran): Historical Documents and Archaeological Evidence” (2018) in Juraj Belaj et al. (ed.). Sacralization of Landscape and Sacred Places, (Zbornik Instituta za Arheologiju Serta Instituti ArchaeologiciKknjiga, 10), Zabreb p. 179-194), Shavarebi was contacted by Amiri Bavandpour who offered an important piece of information about the Anāhīd temples at Estakhr. These two temples are ment…
Rémy Boucharlat. « Découvertes récentes de stucs en Iran sassanide et problèmes d’interprétation »
This overview on Sasanian stuccoes includes the Parthian sites hinting at a transmission of iconographies (i.e., Qaleh-I Zohak and Qaleh-I Yazdgird), and also sites with uncertain chronological attribution. On the one hand, it underlines the lack of Sasanian sites within the Iranian plateau, and on the other hand, how the majority of stuccoes was found in the western territories. Noteworthy is the examination and the illustrations of some archaeo…
Josef Wiesehöfer. “Women of the Sassanid Dynasty (224-651 CE)”
Although there is much evidence on Sasanian kings, we know little about their wives – not even the two attested ruling queens of the dynasty. Foreign and non-contemporary narratives often help to reconstruct this female world, with all the related problematics. Wiesehöfer divides royal women into three ‘chronological’ paragraphs, based on primary (i.e., rock reliefs, seals, inscriptions, coins, silver vessels), foreign (including internal sources…
Michael R. Jackson Bonner. The Last Empire of Iran
M. R. Jackson Bonner states that his narrative of Sasanian political history has been written for a general audience by avoiding academic debates and historiographical digressions. This much needed handbook consists of nine chapters in which Sasanian history is assessed within the context of all its neighbours; from the Iberian territories, to the Armenian struggles, the Chinese embassies, the relationships with the nomads of Hira, political deve…
Mohammadreza Nemati, Mehdi Mousavinia, Eberhard Sauer, Carlo G. Cereti. “Largest Ancient Fortress of South-West Asia and the Western World? Recent Fieldwork at Sasanian Qaleh Iraj at Pishva, Iran”
The vastness of the monument known as Qaleh Iraj (1.6 x 1.3 km!), close by the modern Tehran, raised many questions on its chronology and function. Was it the ancient Ray, the four-corner city of Varena, a park for royal hunt, or a fort? In this paper, the results of surveys, excavations, satellite imagery, and textual analysis are combined to provide answers. In terms of domestic architecture, just a clay floor on a cobblestone bedding had been …
Andrea Squitieri. “The Sasanian Cemetery of Gird-I Bazar in the Peshdar Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan)”
In the site of Gird-i Bazar in the Sulaymaniyah province, a Sasanian cemetery was found installed over, and partly damaging, the older Iron Age structures. Although Zoroastrians notoriously exposed the bodies and then placed the bones into astodans, inhumations are not uncommon in such a multi-cultural empire. After mentioning the Sasanian cemeteries found in the same region and underlining the presence of a large Christian community in Adiabene,…
Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi. “The Gravity of New City Formations
At the start of the paper, Mofidi-Nasrabadi correctly points out the lack of information on cities of Susiana, such as Gondishapur and Eyvan-e Karkheh. After a summarized and useful overview of the textual mentions of Gondishapur, Mofidi-Nasrabadi proceeds in a re-evaluation of the archaeological data. The first premise to this methodological approach is that the urbanisation process of a new city results in the depopulation of the surrounding vi…
Parsa Ghasemi, Reza Noruzi, Aziz Rezaei, Mosayeb Amiri, Ebrahim Ghezelbash. “Čāhārbāzār. Preliminary Report on the Identification of a Large Archaeological Site in Farāšband, in the Sasanian Province …
A large possibly Sasanian archaeological site, knowns as Čāhārbāzār, was identified 11 km east of Farāšband, in the Bani-Qatār plain of Bačun. Thanks to an approach combining field survey with analysis of remote sensing of aerial photo and satellite imagery, further study had been carried out adding a piece of our knowledge on archaeology of Fars. Previously this site was believed to be a caravanserai and a kušk, but this groundbreaking research …
Ali Hozhabri. “Proposing a Function for Char-Ghapi, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran
One of the buildings of the Qasr-e Shirin complex, known as Char-Ghapi, is analysed in this paper by Hozhabri. After a summary of the literature on this chahar-taghi, correlated by an amazing set of images and a thorough and detailed description of the building, the author compares features of fire-temples and churches built during Sasanian period. It turns out that the Char-Ghapi has more characteristics in common with churches than fire-temples…
St John Simpson. “Ard Maysan and the Land behind Basrah in Late Antiquity”
The economic function of the wetlands and marshes of the Ard Maysan region is laid out through a multi-disciplinary approach. Ethnographic comparisons, historical and archaeological evidence, and the presence of three crucial Sasanian urban centres confirm the existence of relationships between a diverse range of communities. Still unclear is the development of Sasanian maritime trade and this re-assessment of the significance of the region hints…
Giulio Maresca. “Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-Western Iran during the Sasanian Period
Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and their function in the facilitation of irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific Sasanian administrative centralisation. The author stresses the continuity of investments in infrastructures, from the Arsacids to the Islamic period via the Sasanians. It is presented that members of elite governing classes as well as private entrepreneurs provid…
Touraj Daryaee. “From Zoroastrian to Islamic Iran
this dating is still uncertain, surely from Khusrow II's reign to the coming of Hajjab b. Yusuf's reforms Christians acquired more and more power
St John Simpson. “Heavy metal and the beauty industry
In this short but concise and very informative paper, Simpson illustrates the history of use of cosmetic in the Middle East. This overview does not stop to list the results of various isotopic analysis carried out on the different pigments found, but it also examines different tradition of storing cosmetics. Past is closely entwined with the present as some cosmetic flasks are among the items identified and returned by the British Museum while mo…
From the Fire Temple to the Mosque
This paper is an analysis of the change in urban spaces in the former Sasanian empire after the Arab-Muslim conquest. How events shaped the population’s life is reflected by how urban society shaped the spaces within the city. Paradigmatic of this is the case of religious spaces. In a syncretic empire such as the Sasanian Ērānšahr (224–650 CE), places of worship were not limited to fire altars and temples, there were also churches and synagogues …
Soundscapes of Eranshahr
Aspects of the sensory experience of past environments, such as tastes, smells, textures (including of food), sounds, and other sensory stimuli, cannot be fully reconstructed and appreciated with archaeological evidence alone. Interpreting the importance of sounds from archaeological evidence presents challenges due to the ephemeral nature of sound and biases inherent in historical sources. The recreation of soundscapes, closely associated with s…
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