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• LUKONIN, Vladimir Grigor’evich

  Muhammad Dandamayev and Inna Medvedskaya

  (1932-1984), outstanding Russian scholar in the field of history and history of culture and arts of ancient Iran, from the earliest times until the end of the Sasanian period. He published and introduced to scholarship many artifacts of Iranian culture preserved at the Hermitage Museum, including the unique hoard of Iranian silver drachms of the 3rd century CE and some objects of early Sasanian toreutics.

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• LULUBI

  Ran Zadok

  country of a people who probably originated in southern Kurdistan; the form of the name is identical in both Sumerian and Akkadian, namely Lulubi and Lulubum respectively.

• LURISTAN BRONZES i. THE FIELD RESEARCH

  Bruno Overlaet

  The label “Luristan bronzes”  designates a series of decorated bronze objects in a specific local style dating from the Iron Age (ca. 1300/1250 to 700/650 BCE). These bronzes became known through large-scale illegal excavations starting in the late 1920s, but their cultural context and provenance remained uncertain for a long time and the label is often wrongfully used—usually for commercial reasons—for bronze objects from other regions or periods.

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• LURISTAN BRONZES ii. CHRONOLOGY

  Bruno Overlaet

  OF LURISTAN AS REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS A few stray Luristan bronzes were acquired by European museums as early as the second half of the 19th century. At that time, however, their origin was unknown.

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• LUSCHEY, Heinz

  Wolfram Kleiss

  (1910-1992), German archaeologist and art historian of Iran and the Middle East.

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• LUT

  Cross-Reference

  Persian word meaning “desert.” See DESERT.

• LUṬI

  Willem Floor

  A Persian term with a variety of meanings, with both positive and negative connotations.

• LYSANDER

  Ernst Badian

  (ca. 454-395 BCE), Spartan commander and politician.