A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set

1 Adle, C. (2006). Qanats of Bam: an archaeological perspective: irrigation system in Bam, its birth and evolution from the prehistoric period up to modern times. In M. Honari, A. Salamat, A. Salih, et al. (eds.), Qanats of Bam: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Tehran: UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, pp. 33–85.

2 Azadi, A, Ascalone, E., Peyronel, L. (2012). The first season (2009) of archaeological research by the Iranian‐Italian joint expedition at Qaleh Kutchek, Halil Valley (Jiroft, Kerman Province, SE Iran). In R. Matthews, J. Curtis (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 12 April – 16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London: Volume 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 277–302.

3 Azarnoush, M., Helwing, B. (2005). Recent archaeological research in Iran: prehistory to the Iron Age. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan, 37, pp. 189–246.

4 Ball, W. (2019). Archaeeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Revised edition, Oxford : Oxford University Press.

5 Boucharlat, R. (2001). Les galeries de captage dans la péninsule d’Oman au premier millénaire avant J.‐C.: questions sur leurs relations avec les galeries du plateau iranien. In P. Briant (ed.), Irrigation et drainage dans l’Antiquité: qanāts et canalisations souterraines en Iran, en Égypte et en Grèce. Persika 2. Paris: Thotm, pp. 157–183.

6 Boucharlat, R. (2017). Ancient qanāt and falaj, polycentric and multi period innovations: Iran and the United Arab Emirates as case‐studies. In A.N. Angelakis, E. Chiotis, S. Eslamian, and H. Weingartner (eds.), Underground Aqueducts Handbook. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 279–301.

7 Bowman, R.A. (1970). Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis Oriental Institute Publications 91. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

8 Callieri, P. (1997). Seals and Sealings from the North‐West of the Indian Subcontinent and Afghanistan (4th Century BC – 11th Century AD). Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli.

9 Fisher, M.T., Stolper, M.W. (2015). Achaemenid Elamite administrative tablets, 3. Fragments from Old Kandahar, Afghanistan. ARTA 2015.001, pp. 1–26.

10 Franke‐Vogt, U. (2001). The Southern Indus Valley during the later 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.: the Dark Age. In R. Eichmann, H. Parzinger (eds.), Migration und Kulturtransfer: Der Wandel vorder‐ und zentralasiatischer Kulturen im Umbruch vom 2. und 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend. Bonn: R. Habelt, pp. 247–303.

11 Genito, B. (1990). The most frequent pottery types at Dahan‐e Gholaman (Sistan) and their spatial variability. In M. Taddei, P. Callieri (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 1987: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Eouope, Held in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Teil 2. Serie Orientale Roma 66/2. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, pp. 587–604.

12 Genito, B. (2012). An “Achaemenid” capital of the Imperial Periphery: Zrānka/Drangiana/Sistan. In G.P. Basello, A.V. Rossi (eds.), Dariosh Studies I: Persepolis and Its Settlements: Territorial System and Ideology in the Achaemenid State. Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Series Minor 78. Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 365–385.

13 Gnoli, G. (1993). Dahan e olāmān. Encyclopaedia Iranica, 6, pp. 582–585.

14 Helms, S.W. (1997). Excavations at Old Kandahar in Afghanistan in 1976–1978: Stratigraphy, Pottery and Other Finds. BAR International Series 686. Oxford: Archaeopress.

15 Lamberg‐Karlovsky, C.C., Magee, P. (1999). The Iron Age platforms at Tepe Yahya. Iranica Antiqua, 34, pp. 41–52.

16 Magee, P. (2004). Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967–1975: The Iron Age Settlement. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

17 Magee, P. (2005). The chronology and environmental background of Iron Age settlement in southeastern Iran and the question of the origin of the Qanat irrigation system. Iranica Antiqua, 40, pp. 217–231.

18 Magee, P., Petrie, C. (2010). West of the Indus – East of the Empire: the archaeology of the Pre‐Achaemenid and Achaemenid periods in Baluchistan and the North‐West Frontier Province, Pakistan. In J. Curtis, J. Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 502–522.

19 Magee, P., Petrie, C., Knox, R., Khan, F., and Thomas, K. (2005). The Achaemenid empire in South Asia and recent excavations in Akra in northern Pakistan. American Journal of Archaeology, 109 (4), pp. 711–741.

20 Marshall, Sir J. (1951). Taxila, 3 volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

21 McNicoll, A., Ball, W. (1996). Excavations at Kandahar 1974 and 1975. BAR International Series 641. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum.

22 Mohammadkhani, K. (2012). Une nouvelle construction monumentale achéménide à Dahaneh‐e Gholaman, Sistan, Iran. ARTA 2012.001, pp. 1–18.

23 Potts, D.T. (1990). The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Vol. I: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

24 Sajjadi, S.M.S. (2007). Wall painting from Dahaneh‐ye Gholaman (Sistan). Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 13, pp. 129–154.

25 Sarianidi, V. (1977). Bactrian center of ancient art. Mesopotamia, 12, pp. 97–110.

26 Scerrato, U. (1966). Excavations at Dahan‐e Ghulaman (Seistan‐Iran): first preliminary report (1962–1963). East and West, 16, pp. 9–30.

27 Stein, M.A. (1931). An Archaeological Tour in Gedrosia. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch.

28 Stein, M.A. (1937). Archaeological Reconnaissances in North‐Western India and South‐Eastern Iran: Carried Out and Recorded with the Support of Harvard University. London: Macmillan.

29 Vogelsang, W.J. (1992). The Rise and Organisation of the Achaemenid Empire: The Eastern Iranian Evidence. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East 3. Leiden: Brill.

30 Wheeler, Sir M. (1962). Chārsada: A Metropolis of the North West Frontier. London: Oxford University Press.

31 Wilkinson, T.J., Boucharlat, R., Ertsen, M.W., et al. (2012). From human niche construction to imperial power: long‐term trends in ancient Iranian water systems. Water History, 4 (2), pp. 155–176.

1 Avanzini, A. (ed.) (2010). Eastern Arabia in the First Millennium BC. Arabia Antiqua 6. Archaeological Studies. Roma: “L’Erma” di Breitschneider. Contains several up‐to‐date papers on first millennium BCE archeology in southeastern Arabia.

2 Ball, W. (2019). Archaeeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Revised edition, Oxford : Oxford University Press.

3 Boucharlat, R. (2003). Water draining galleries in the Iron Age Oman Peninsula and the “Iranian qanat”. In D. Potts, H. Al Naboodah, and P. Hellyer (eds.), The Emirates in Antiquity: Proceedings of the 1st Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, April 2001. London: Trident Press, pp. 162–172. Raises the issue of new irrigation techniques allowing the resettlement of the region in this period.

4 Callieri, P. (2004). s.v. India iii. Political and historical relations: Achaemenid period. Encyclopaedia Iranica, 13 (1), pp. 10–13; and more recently some pages in Henkelman, W.F.M. (2012). The Achaemenid heartland: an archaeological‐historical perspective. In D.T. Potts (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 931–962. Provide a historical and archeological overview of the eastern satrapies.

5 Franke‐Vogt, U. (2001). The Southern Indus Valley during the later 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.: the Dark Age. In R. Eichmann, H. Parzinger (eds.), Migration und Kulturtransfer: Der Wandel vorder‐ und zentralasiatischer Kulturen im Umbruch vom 2. und 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend. Bonn: R. Habelt, pp. 247–303; Magee, P., Petrie, C. (2010). West of the Indus – East of the Empire: the archaeology of the pre‐Achaemenid and Achaemenid periods in Baluchistan and the North‐West Frontier Province, Pakistan. In J. Curtis, J. Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 502–522. Discuss archeological data in northwestern and western Pakistan, to the Indus river, particularly ceramic chronology.