Early Sassanian Inscriptions, Seals and CoinsTrübner, 1868 - 137 pages |
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... British Museum , and the Royal Asiatic Society pos- sesses parallel reproductions . It is from the latter that the illustrative Photograph has been derived . the identificatory legends of which almost uniformly followed the Eastern 2 ...
... British Museum , and the Royal Asiatic Society pos- sesses parallel reproductions . It is from the latter that the illustrative Photograph has been derived . the identificatory legends of which almost uniformly followed the Eastern 2 ...
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... -139 B.c. ) , upon the Cuneiform tablets of terra - cotta in the British Museum , deciphered by Oppert , " Expédition en Mésopotamie , ” ii . 357 . roll , is designed to portray a man writing with SASSANIAN INSCRIPTIONS .
... -139 B.c. ) , upon the Cuneiform tablets of terra - cotta in the British Museum , deciphered by Oppert , " Expédition en Mésopotamie , ” ii . 357 . roll , is designed to portray a man writing with SASSANIAN INSCRIPTIONS .
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... British Museum . The writings themselves have been consumed by the fire which destroyed the building or had perished from decay . In the stamped clay , however , may still be seen the holes for the string or strips of skin by which the ...
... British Museum . The writings themselves have been consumed by the fire which destroyed the building or had perished from decay . In the stamped clay , however , may still be seen the holes for the string or strips of skin by which the ...
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... British Museum , with a Parthian Ds and a Sassaniana on the obverse field . See also Numismatic Chronicle , xvii . 169 ; Lindsay , pl . xi . Arsaces XXX . J. caligraphy was singularly repetitive , starting from a given SASSANIAN ...
... British Museum , with a Parthian Ds and a Sassaniana on the obverse field . See also Numismatic Chronicle , xvii . 169 ; Lindsay , pl . xi . Arsaces XXX . J. caligraphy was singularly repetitive , starting from a given SASSANIAN ...
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... British Government in those mountains . It is then to the en- hanced freedom of penmanship incident to the employment of birch - bark that I am disposed to attribute the leading peculiari- ties of this style of writing . The material in ...
... British Government in those mountains . It is then to the en- hanced freedom of penmanship incident to the employment of birch - bark that I am disposed to attribute the leading peculiari- ties of this style of writing . The material in ...
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