Sculpture in the Parthian Empire: A Study in Chronology, Volume 1A study on the chronology of the sculpture, primarily large-scale, of the Parthian Empire. The catalogue describes individual sculptural monuments and enumerates results and proposals of previous research. The text volume attempts to date the monuments according to their style and other criteria (such as iconographical traits, historical identifications or the contents of accompanying inscriptions and technical details). The study deals with sculptures from the central part of the Parthian Empire, defined as the area from around the Euphrates in the west (including a few monuments from Edesa and ancient Armenia) to the eastern frontiers of Iran, and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Parthyene, the southern part of Soviet Turkmenistan, in the north. However, some ivory reliefs found at Olbia and normally included in studies on Parthian art are also treated here. |
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VOLUME | 9 |
Middle Parthian Sculpture c 1150 AD | 27 |
SubParthian Sculpture at Hatra the 230s AD | 71 |
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1st century BC 2nd century AD Achaemenid Allat ANW cat.no Artabanus IV artistic Atargatis beard Bisutun body bust chest coiffure coins Colledge Commagene contrapposto diadem Downey drapery folds dress Dura-Europos Early Parthian period Elymais-Susiana feature feet female Finik foreshortened frontal Ghirshman 1976 Gotarzes Graeco-Roman Greek Group 1 reliefs hair hairstyle Hatra Hellenistic Heracles Hung-i Nauruzi inscription inspiration Iran Iranian Kawami legs Mathiesen Mithradates Mithradates II monuments Palmyra parallel Parthian art Parthian Empire Parthian kings Parthian sculpture Parthisk portrait probably profile view Relief ANW relief at Bisutun reliefs at Tang-i rendering rider rock relief cat.no Safar and Mustafa Sanatruq Sasanian Schlumberger sculptures securely dated seen Seleucia Sellwood Shami statue Shimbar side stance standing male figure statuette stele stele cat.no style stylistic Susa Tang-i Sarvak Tang-i Sarvak cat.nos Temple thian tiara traits trousers tunic turned U-folds Vanden Berghe Vologases Vologases IV wear western Zeus