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• PEJMAN-E BAKHTIARI, HOSAYN

  Soheila Saremi

  (1900-1974) poet, lyricist, writer and  translator, who composed highly acclaimed ḡazals, and also played an instrumental role in editing and annotating Neẓāmi Ganjavi’s Panj Ganj or Ḵamseh.

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• PELLIOT, PAUL

  Samuel Lieu

  (1878-1945), French orientalist who particularly contributed to the study of the languages and  history of the diverse religions and cultures of Central Asia.

• PEPPER

  Cross-Reference

  See FELFEL.

• PERICLES

  Ernst Badian

  (ca. 495-429 BCE), Athenian politician and commander in the period after the major victories over the forces of Xerxes I.

• PERIKHANIAN, ANAHIT

  Arthur Ambartsumian

  (1928-2012), scholar of Iranian studies, specializing in Sasanian jurisprudence, history, and society. 

  
  
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• PĒRŌZ

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  Sasanian king (r. 459-84). See FIRUZ.

• PERROT, JEAN

  Rémy Boucharlat

  (1920-2012), French archeologist and the last director of the Délégation Archéologique Française en Iran (1968-83).

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• PERSEPOLIS

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  ruined monuments of the acropolis of the city of Pārsa, the dynastic center of the Achaemenid Persian kings, located in the plain of Marvdašt, some 57 km northeast of Shiraz.

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• PERSEPOLIS ADMINISTRATIVE ARCHIVES

  Annalisa Azzoni, Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Mark B. Garrison, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Matthew W. Stolper

  two groups of clay tablets, fragments, and sealings produced and stored by administrative agencies based at Persepolis.

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• PERSEPOLIS ELAMITE TABLETS

  Muhammad Dandamayev

  administrative records in Elamite inscribed on clay tablets. Parts of two archives of such tablets were discovered in Persepolis in 1933-34 and 1936-38.