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ḎAḴĪRA-YE ḴᵛĀRAZMŠĀHĪ
ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
early 13th-century Persian encyclopedia of medical knowledge compiled by Sayyed Esmāʿīl b. Ḥosayn Jorjānī.
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DAḴMA
Cross-Reference
in Zoroastrian practice, enclosure or structure for the exposure of the dead. See CORPSE.
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DALMĀ TEPE
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
The excavations revealed a mass of handmade, chaff-tempered pottery with fine grit inclusions, fired to orange or pink, frequently with a gray core. A few sherds have smoothed, undecorated surfaces and have been labeled “Dalma plain ware.”
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DALQAK
Farrokh Gaffary
buffoon, court jester, also sometimes known as masḵara.
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DAL’VERZIN TEPE
G. A. Pugachenkova
a large site in southern Uzbekistan located not far from the bank of the Surkhandarya river near Denau, a small city approximately 60 km northeast of Termez; it has yielded valuable data on the civilization and arts of northern Bactria and Tokharistan.
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DAM (1)
Cross-Reference
See BAND.
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DAM (2)
Klaus Fischer
archeological site in Afghanistan, 30°55’ N, 62°01’ E, located approximately 20 km east of the Helmand delta.
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DĀM PEZEŠKĪ
Mansour Shaki, Ḥasan Tājbaḵš, and Ṣādeq Sajjādī
veterinary medicine.
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DĀM-DĀRĪ
Jean-Pierre Digard
animal husbandry. In general, livestock raising in the Persian-speaking world is dominated by small animals, with a large proportion of goats, which in certain provinces of Persia itself are even more numerous than sheep. Cattle and equines, especially donkeys, are far less important.
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DĀMĀD, MĪR(-E), SAYYED MOḤAMMAD BĀQER
Andrew J. Newman
b. Mīr Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥosaynī Astarābādī (d. 1041/1631), leading Twelver Shiʿite theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet of 17th-century Persia.