Rika Gyselen
Articles by Rika Gyselen
- KUST
KUST, literally “direction, side” (MacKenzie, p. 52), in Middle Persian epigraphic sources has two well-differentiated technical uses in the administrative…
- FISCAL SYSTEM i. ACHAEMENID, ii. SASANIAN
FISCAL SYSTEM in Persia. i. ACHAEMENID PERIOD There probably was no clear distinction between state and royal incomes in the…
- ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR
ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR (Ērān, glory of Šāpūr), Sasanian province (šahrestān) containing Susa and probably created by Šāpūr II (r. 309-379). Though Susa…
- ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD
ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD (Ērān, glory of Yazdegerd), Sasanian province probably created by Yazdegerd II (438-457). The city cannot be identified with any…
- ĒRĀN-ŠĀD-KAWĀD
ĒRĀN-ŠĀD-KAWĀD, name of a Sasanian town occurring in post-Sasanian sources only. Ḥamza Eṣfahānī situated this Sasanian foundation between Ḥolwān and…
- ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀ
ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀD (Kawād[has] arranged Ērān), name of a Sasanian province (šahrestān) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531) in his reorganisation of…
- ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD
ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD (Kawād [has] made Ērān peaceful), name of a Sasanian province (šahr) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531). It was…
- SPĀHBED
SPĀHBED, Sasanian title that denoted a high military rank and meant ‘chief of an army, general’; cf. New Pers. sepāhbad,…