Friday 6 March, 5.30pm, François de Blois, University College, London, Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism. François de Blois has published widely on Semitic and Iranian languages and on the history of religions in the Near East in pre-modern times. Notably, he contributed to the multi-volume work Persian Literature, which had been initiated by C.A. Storey and published by the Royal Asiatic Society. He served as Professor of Iranian Studies at Hamburg University from 2002 to 2003. Currently he is a research fellow at University College London where he is engaged in …
Lecture by Vesta Curtis
Friday 20th February, 5.30pm at the Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge Vesta Curtis, British Museum The power and purpose of iconography in Ancient Iran Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis is Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum. She is responsible for the Museum’s collection of pre-Islamic Iranian coins (from the third century BC until the middle of the seventh century AD), which includes both Parthian period and Sasanian coins. She is Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, The Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP), and Joint Editor of the …
Lecture by Dr Gabor Kosa
Friday 23rd January, 5.30pm Gabor Kosa, ELTE University, Budapest Judgement after Death: the Manichaean cosmology painting The first part of this talk will explore the role of visuality in Manichaeism, as well as the relationship between Mānī’s Picture-book and the newly identified Chinese ʻCosmology painting’. The second part summarizes the most fundamental Manichaean notions of the post-mortem judgement of the human soul. The third part will offer a novel interpretation of the judgement scene in the Cosmology painting, comparing it with the iconography of the ʻTen Kings of Hell’ tradition. …
AIIT Lecture Programme – Lent Term 2015
LENT TERM 2015: IRAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY *** 23 January: Gabor Kosa, ELTE University (Budapest) Judgement after death: the Manichaean cosmology painting *** 6 February: Special Talk for Friends of AIIT Sam Lieu, Macquarie University (Australia) Between Parthia and Rome – Palmyra and Dura Europos (This event is open to Friends of the Trust only: please book in advance. To book or to become a Friend, please contact the Administrator on info@indiran.org or 01223 356841.) *** 20 February: Vesta Curtis, British Museum The power and purpose of iconography in ancient …
Allchin Memoirs Review in Antiquity Journal, December 2014
Raymond and Bridget Allchin’s early memoirs, From Oxus to Mysore in 1951: the start of a great partnership in Indian scholarship, have been reviewed in the New Book Chronicle in the new issue of Antiquity (December 2014, vol. 88, issue 342), available online and in print Publication details: RAYMOND ALLCHIN & BRIDGET ALLCHIN. From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951: the start of a great partnership in Indian scholarship. xx+316 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. 2012. Kilkerran: Hardinge Simpole; 978-1-84382-221-9 paperback £14.95.