Z~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

list of all the figure and plate images in the Z entries

 

Z~ ENTRIES: CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Entry Image Caption
ZAND DYNASTY Figure 1. Portrait of Karim Khan Zand (© British Library Board, MS Or. 4938; Rieu, Persian Manuscripts, Supp., p. 262).
ZARUDNIĬ, NIKOLAĬ ALEKSEEVICH Figure 1. Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Zarudniĭ.
ZENDA BE GUR Figure 1. Book cover of Zenda be gur.
ZHUKOVSKIĬ, VALENTIN ALEKSEEVICH Figure 1. A portrait of Valentin Alekseevich Zhukovskiĭ.
ZIGGURAT Figure 1. Tepe Sialk, view to the north, undated. Photograph by M. Schicht. After Stöllner, I, p. 205, fig. 7.
ZIGGURAT Figure 2. Choga Zanbil, undated. Photograph courtesy of Georg Gerster.
ZIGGURAT Figure 3. Zabil, reconstruction. Drawing by J.-H. Sixtus. After Ghirshman, 1966, p. 60, fig. 40.
ZIGGURAT Figure 4. Zabil, building phase 1. Drawing by J.-H. Sixtus. After Ghirshman, 1966, p. 41, fig. 27.
ZIGGURAT Figure 5. Choga Zabil, building phase 2. Drawing by J.-H. Sixtus. After Ghirshman, 1966, p. 43, fig. 29.
ZIGGURAT Figure 6. , platform. Drawing by F. Hole and N. Kouchoukos. After Harper, p. 27, fig. 23.
ZIGGURAT Figure 7. Tepe, terrace complexes I and II. Excavation grid by W. Kleiss, first published with wrong orientation in Negahban, plan 2. After the corrected version in Stöllner, I, p. 300, fig. 3.
ZIGGURAT Figure 8. vessel, Jiroft (?), architectural decoration. After Majidzadeh, 2003, p. 71, no. 71.
ZODIAC Figure 1. Illustration of the zodiac in the Bundahišn, TD1, fol. 20 v.
ZODIAC Figure 2. Illustration of the zodiac in the Bundahišn, ed. and tr. M. Bahar, 1990, p. 58.
ZODIAC Figure 3. horoscope of the world, after D. N. MacKenzie, "Zoroastrian Astrology in the ‘Bundahišn’," BSOAS27/3, 1964, p. 514.
ZOROASTER vi. As perceived by later Zoroastrians Figure 1. Zoroaster depicted on a wall-hanging, from a portrait of the prophet popular in the late 19th century.
ZOROASTER vi. Figure 2. Portrayal of Zarathuπtra, found in Karaka’s History of the Parsis, which depicts the prophet in the guise of one of the sculptured figures at Tāq-e Bostān.
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 1. A popular, 20th-century depiction of the Prophet Zarathustra on a stained glass window at the Tata Fire Temple, Bandra, India. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 2. A Vidēvdād manuscript with Avestan scripture, Pahlavi liturgical sade or instructions, Farsi/New Persian headings, and Old Gujarati (written in Devanagari script) ritual sade, 1704. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 3. Mobed seated in front of fire altar and ritual offerings, holding flowers, while performing a Jašan ritual, Dadar, India, 1984. He wears a padān over his mouth to avoid defiling the fire. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 4. Ruins of a fire temple of the Sasanian period, at Firuzabad (q.v.), Fars Province, Iran. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 5. Entrance to the precinct of the Irān Šāh fire temple, Udwada, Gujarat. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 6. Ārāmgāh for Iranian Zoroastrian burials, at Kerman, Iran, built in the 20th century. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 7. A mid-19th-century daḵma for exposure of the dead, at Yazd, Iran. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 8. Iranian Zoroastrian wedding ceremony, officiated by Mobed Mehraban Firouzgary, Tehran, Iran, 2003. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 9. Interior of the Banu Rostam Farrokh fire temple, at Kerman City, built 1924. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 10. Interior of the 20th-century Arbab Rustom Guiv Darbe Mehr fire temple, at Hinsdale, Illinois, built 1983. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).
ZOROASTRIANISM ii. Historical Review: from the Arab Conquest to Modern Times Figure 11. The Kusti bastan ritual of bestowing the sacred cord cord, at a Navjote initiation ceremony, performed at Karachi, Pakistan, 2003. (Copyright ©Jamsheed K. Choksy).

(Cross-Reference)

Originally Published: January 1, 2000

Last Updated: August 28, 2015