Open Access Journal: Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies

[First posted in AWOL 3 April 2018, updated 13 August 2026]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
University of Sistan and Balouchestan
ISSN 2251-743X

The Archaeological Sciences Research Centre (ASRC) of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan (USB) was founded in 2009, with the aim to ensure interaction between archaeology and scientific disciplines engaged in studies of the past. The centre is the first and only Archaeological Sciences Research Centre in the whole country. Research in archaeological science has greatly influenced modern archaeology. Archaeologists gain significant insight and interpretation of data using techniques borrowed from physical and biological sciences and earth sciences. It has the potential to alter our understanding of the past.
For this reason, the ASRC of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan aims to support scientific methods in
archaeology in order to have a better understanding of past societies. The Iranian Journal of Archaeological
Studies (IJAS), is the first Iranian English Language peer reviewed journal in archaeology and interdisciplinary studies, also aims to publish articles relating to the archaeology of Iran and neighboring areas, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Central Asia, the southern part of the Oman Sea and the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. The Editorial Board of IJAS includes scholars from multiple countries and of multiple disciplines.

Volume & Issue: Volume 16, Issue 1, 2026, Pages 1-110 

Number of Articles: 7

Cultural Resilience in Conditions of Uncertainty: Technological, Environmental, Social, and Epistemic Dimensions

Pages 1-4

Mehdi Mortazavi

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Mineralogical Characterization and Firing Technology of Ancient Ceramics through XRD: A Case Study from Jalandhar District, Punjab (India)

Pages 5-16

Rahul Kumar; Narender Parmar; Jitendra Kumar Pattanaik

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Bioarchaeological Analysis of Qoli Darvish (Iran): Reflections on Climate and Subsistence Economy in the Qom Plain during the Third and Second Millennia BCE

Pages 17-38

Siamak Sarlak; Marjan Mashkour; Mehdi Mortazavi; Fariba Mosapour Negari; Zohreh Shirazi; Sheyda Ashrafi

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Proto-Elamite Culture in Light of the Newly Analysed Proto-Elamite Tablet from the State Hermitage Museum

Pages 39-44

Eray Karaketir

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The Western Cemetery of Qareh Tepe, Segzabad: New Iron Age Evidence from Iran’s Central Plateau

Pages 45-72

Mostafa Dehpahlavan; Saman Babazadeh; Mahdi Jahed; Amar Tazik

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Study and Analysis of Excavation Findings from Site No. 19 in the Cham-e Shir Dam Area, Gachsaran County (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran)

Pages 73-90

Hossein Sepidnameh; Ebrahim Raiygani; Akbar Azizi

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From Persepolis to Ctesiphon: Investigating Continuity in Ancient Iranian Architecture Through the Arch of Ctesiphon

Pages 91-110

Mahdi Motamedmanesh

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Volume 15 (2025)

Volume 14 (2024)

Volume 13 (2023)

Volume 12 (2022)

Volume 11 (2021)

Volume 10 (2020)

Volume 9 (2019)

Volume 8 (2018)

Volume 7 (2017)

Volume 6 (2016)

Volume 5 (2015)

Volume 4 (2014)

Volume 3 (2013)

Volume 2 (2012)

Volume 1 (2011)

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Open Access Journal: Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History

 [First posted in AWOL 27 December 2023, updated 13 August 2026]

 

Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History

 

Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, published by Casa Editrice Persiani in Bologna, Italy, is an Open Access journal publishing scholarly articles under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Hunara invites scholars to submit their manuscripts for review and publication. Hunara also accepts proposals for special issues. Please fill out the "Special Issue Proposal Form" and submit it at hunara@persianieditore.com if you are interested in editing a special issue.

We are now accepting manuscripts for the special issue "Nature in Ancient Iranian Arts and Texts". Read more here.

 Vol. 4:1 (2026)

First pages

Abstract

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The Indo-European Verb ^*peh₂- “to Protect, Guard, Pasture” in Native and Borrowed Layers of Armenian

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https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2026.248056

Hrach Martirosyan, Varduhi Badalyan

Abstract The Indo-European verbal root ^*peh₂- “to protect, guard; to graze, tend (livestock)” is represented in Armenian through native developments such as ^*ph₂-tēr “father” > hayr, ^*h₃eu̯i-peh₂- “sheep-herder” > hoviw (instrumental hovu-a-w), ^*peh2-i̯e- > hayim “to look, gaze on, observe, watch”, and ^*peh₂-tro- > hawr-an “flock, sheepfold”. It is also reflected in numerous words and personal names borrowed from Iranian sources, e.g. apat “inhabited/cultivated place”, darapan “porter, doorkeeper”, hpatak “subject, vassal”, šahap “vice-roy, governor, mayor”, pa(r)hem “to guard, preserve, keep”, pahapan “keeper, guard, watchman”, etc. This article attempts to present the corpus of such words in a concise form, supplemented with etymological notes. Special attention is devoted, on the one hand, to terms for pahanord, pahapan, pahpanak, grapanak—amulets or magical protective objects—and, on the other hand, to the etymology of pay/payn, the name of a protective spirit.

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The Origin of the Legend of Zoroaster in Mabug

Pages 23-36

https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2026.248065

Arezoo Rasouli (Taleghani), Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani

Abstract The Silk Road, as the most famous trade route in the ancient world, has always attracted considerable attention from researchers. Economics and commerce are the main subjects of most research on the Silk Road. However, along this long route, not only were goods and wealth exchanged, but culture, language, and even religion among different peoples also interacted and influenced each other. In the third volume of A History of Zoroastrianism, Mary Boyce and Franz Grenet refer to the myth of Zoroaster among the priests of the Temple of Atargatis at Mabug. According to this legend, Zoroaster, with the help of a Thracian magician named Orpheus, succeeds in repelling an evil and annoying spirit that lives in the forests around Mabug. While Boyce and Grenet trace the origins of this legend to the period of Achaemenid rule in Syria, the most important document in this regard is The Apology of Pseudo-Meliton from the sixth or seventh century AD; that is, almost a thousand years after the fall of the Achaemenids. In addition, another source that can be considered the influence of Zoroastrian beliefs in Mabug is De Dea Syria by Lucian of Samosata, which was written in the second century AD, almost five hundred years after the fall of the Achaemenids. This time gap seriously challenges Boyce and Grenet’s view. On the other hand, considering that the Silk Road flourished and passed through Mabug at the time when both sources were composed, and also due to the proximity of this city to the Iranian border, the present study shows that the origin of this legend should be traced via the Silk Road.

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The Ringing Gorge: On the Etymology of the Toponym Zangezur in the Light of Sasanian Sigillography, and the Historical Onomastics of Historical Armenia and Adjacent Regions

Pages 37-48

https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2026.248054

Eduard Khurshudian

Abstract This article presents a comprehensive reconstruction of the origin of the toponym Zangezur, based on evidence from Sasanian sigillography, Armenian toponymy, historical hydronymy, and comparative-historical linguistics. The point of departure is a Sasanian administrative bulla of the sixth century CE, in which the toponym Marz-ī Zangāvan is attested for the first time as an independent Sasanian administrative-territorial unit. This form constitutes the earliest known written attestation of the component Zang- in the South Caucasus region.
The article proposes a new interpretation of the toponym Marz-ī Zangāvan. On the basis of historical-geographical and toponymic evidence, it is argued that Zangāvan originally functioned as a hydronym—the name of the largest river of historical Zangezur, known in the Armenian tradition as the Vorotan. Historical sources attest several names for this river system (Vorotan, Vorot, Orot, Barkušat (var. Bargušad), Bazarçay (^*Basarçay), Rut, Urud, etc.), testifying to the long coexistence of diverse linguistic traditions in the naming of this waterway. Among the Iranian parallels, particular significance attaches to the hydronym Āb-e Zangāvan (also known as Rūdkhāneh-ye Čam Zangavān or Rūd-e Pīvanān) in Ilam Province, Western Iran, demonstrating that the form Zangāvan genuinely functioned in the Iranian tradition as a river name.
The second part of the study is devoted to the reconstruction of the Armenian proto-form Zang-i jor (“the gorge of sound”/“ringing gorge”) and the analysis of its subsequent Persian administrative adaptation ^*Zang-e zūr, as well as the later Turkic adaptation Zəngəzur (var. Zangazur-which is a Persian distorted or reinterpreted form!). The proposed reconstruction is the first to unite evidence from sigillography, historical hydronymy, Armenian word-formation patterns, and Persian and Turkic administrative traditions into a unified explanatory system for the origin of the toponym.

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An Etymological Study of Twenty Words Related to Crafts in the Hanashuri, Sarmaki, and Dohuki Dialects in Southern Iran

Pages 49-67

https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2026.590528.1008

Sohrab Gholami, Jalal Rahimian, Farrokh Hajiyani, Katayun Namiranian

Abstract Hanashur, Sarmak, and Dohuk are villages in the Tasuj Rural District, in Dashti County, Bushehr Province. The Hanashuri, Sarmaki, and Dohuki dialects are varieties of the standard Persian language in Bushehr Province, south of Iran. This study is an etymological analysis of twenty words related to crafts spoken in the dialects in question. To conduct this research, ten speakers over fifty years of age and two young, literate speakers were interviewed. Their speech was recorded phonetically, and a linguistic corpus was developed using field and descriptive-analytical methods and desk research. These methods, combined with IPA transcription, were employed to collect and analyse the data. This study offers the etymology of twenty endangered words. Evidence shows that these varieties are from the southwestern Iranian language family and are remnants of one of the ancient Persian languages; they are related to other modern Iranian languages and dialects across the ancient, middle, and new historical periods. The vocabularies of these dialects have historically undergone phonetic changes, phonological processes (especially shift and deletion), and morphological and semantic changes. Furthermore, these dialects are more similar to Middle Persian in terms of word similarity and roots, while in terms of the absence of ergative features in their grammar, they resemble Old Persian.

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Movses Khorenatsi on the Wives of Astyages

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https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2026.248543

Hovhannes Khorikyan, Gagik Hambaryan

Abstract Scholars have long recognized the considerable importance of Armenian sources—particularly the accounts of Movses Khorenatsi—for the study of the ancient history of Media and Iran. Armenian sources take on particular significance when systematically compared with evidence preserved in the works of ancient Greek and Latin authors. In this respect, Khorenatsi’s accounts are at times comparable to those in classical sources, while in other instances they reveal historical realities concerning Armenian–Median and Armenian–Iranian relations. The present article focuses on Khorenatsi’s accounts of Anoysh and Tigranuhi, the women associated with Astyages, king of Media.

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Open Access Journal: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities

 [First posted in AWOL 1 May 2025, updated 13 August 2026]

 

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities 

E-ISSN :2531-7288

ISSN: 0394-9001

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, founded in 1964, is an international peer-reviewed Journal published by Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza University Press). Since 1989, MnS has been edited by the History of Medicine and Bioethics Unit of the Department of  Molecular Medicine.

MnS publishes original research papers, critical reviews and short communications devoted to all aspects of History of Medicine and Biomedicine, History of Healthcare and Health Professions, History of Bioethics and Medical Humanities.

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2026)

Published: 2026-08-05

Articles

• Headache in Ancient Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

  Stefania Fortuna, Christina Savino

  5-24

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• A Singular Perspective on Certain Pharmaceutical Practices in Early 18th-century Italy: the Travel Accounts of Jean-Baptiste Labat

  Paulina Oszajca , François Ledermann

  25-46

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• “I am Happy to have Found a New Reaction”: a Century After the Death of Camillo Golgi, the Letter Announcing the Development of the “Black Reaction”

  Paolo Mazzarello, Maria Carla Garbarino

  47-58

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• Toward a Revision of Metrodora’s Treatise: Evidence from Newly Examined Manuscripts

  Elias Valiakos

  59-98

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• Traumatic Injuries, Death, and Funeral Treatment of Andrea Fortebracci da Montone (1368-1424) in the Writings of Ancient Chroniclers

  Luca Ventura, Mirko Traversari, Federico Bruno, Benedetta Risolo, Alessandro Ricci, Achille Giuliani

  99-116

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• The investigation on the remains of Christina of Sweden (1626-1689): rereading the report of the Swedish anthropologist Carl Herman Hjortsjö (1914-1978) for a new perspective in the Queen’s historiography

  Fabiola Zurlini, Silvia Iorio, Vera Nigrisoli Wärnhjelm

  117-128

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• Hands Over Handbooks: The Making of Medical Expertise in Antiquity

  Gabriele Torcoletti

  129-160

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• “Health versus Economy”: the Recurrence of a False Dilemma in Times of Crisis. The Case of the 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru

  Ernesto Ortiz, Jorge Lossio

  161-174

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• Violence, Survival, and Infection: A Paleopathological Case Study from the Roman Necropolis of Marinelle Vecchie (2nd–3rd Century CE)

  Sandra Guglielmi , Giovanni Villone

  175-192

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• The Collections of historical and pedagogical ethno-anthropological busts of the University Museum of Chieti

  Jacopo Cilli, Arianna Di Felice, Flavio Stocco, Antonietta Di Fabrizio , Assunta Paolucci , Maria Del Cimmuto , Roberta De Quarto, Luigi Capasso , Ruggero D’Anastasio

  193-202

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• Fortification Spectra in Migraine Aura: Historical Origins of the Vauban Eponym

  Francesco Brigo

  203-210

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• Fashion survivors or survivors through fashion? How infectious diseases shaped fashion through the ages

  Omar Simonetti, Sara Sincovich , Caterina Di Cecco, Giulia Colin, Emanuela Sozio, Luca Fontanini, Stefano Di Bella, Mariano Martini, Giorgio Riello

  211-226

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Open Access Journal: Heródoto - Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas

[First posted in AWOL 2 April 2018, updated 13 August 2026]

Heródoto - Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas
ISSN: 2448-2609

Heródoto – Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas, originou-se do interesse de investigação de estudiosos do mundo clássico que o pensam a partir de suas conexões com os mundos africano e asiático conhecidos na Antiguidade. Desenvolveu-se em parceria com pesquisadores do mundo contemporâneo de História da África, da Arte Africana e da Ásia, que consideram o mundo antigo como presença posterior, determinada e reformulada pelas múltiplas visões de diferentes historicidades que lhe sucederam. Sabidamente, ao longo da história do pensamento ocidental, as conexões e integrações entre gregos e romanos e povos da África e da Ásia foram frequentemente negligenciadas como objeto de estudo. Ao voltar seus interesses para essas frentes, reconhecendo-lhes sua importância capital, a revista Heródoto parte da convicção de que as relações entre o mundo clássico e a afro-Ásia constituíram uma espécie de pano de fundo para a longa história Ocidental e Oriental. Com o intuito de contribuir com os trabalhos já realizados nesse campo, dois são os objetivos das pesquisas desenvolvidas pelo grupo:1) Evidenciar as influências mútuas e não hierarquizadas entre as culturas greco-romanas e afro-asiáticas - considerando, para além das relações de aceitação e dominação, instâncias como assimilação, ajustamento, conflito, negociação e resistência ante os contatos. 2) Apontar para as influências exercidas pelas teorias do eurocentrismo, do afrocentrismo e do asianismo na produção historiográfica acerca do mundo antigo.

v. 10 n. 2 (2025): GTHA - RS 

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22683

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Entrevistas / Interviews

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  A Consolidação do Grupo de Trabalho em História Antiga - Seção Rio Grande do Sul, 24 Anos de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão - Entrevista com o Prof. Dr. Fábio Vergara Cerqueira (UFPel)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22688

  Fábio Vergara Cerqueira, Milena Rosa Araújo Ogawa

  08-31

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  A Consolidação do Grupo de Trabalho em História Antiga – Seção Rio Grande do Sul, 24 anos de ensino, pesquisa e extensão

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22689

  Milena Rosa Araújo Ogawa

  32-39

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Dossiê / Dossier

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  Cinema e ensino de História Antiga Possibilidades

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22692

  José Maria Gomes de Souza Neto

  40-63

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  Seguindo os passos e as vozes femininas Espaços, corpos e funções no suporte cerâmico

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22693

  María Cecilia Colombani

  64-82

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  A Permanente intrusa A recriação do feminino no teatro trágico

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22694

  Jussemar Weiss Gonçalves

  83-100

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• Entre disciplinas: Letras Clássicas, História Antiga e os Estudos Clássicos no Brasil

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22695

  Leni Ribeiro Leite

  101-112

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• Seria Heliogábalo uma mulher trans? Considerações a partir da reclassificação de uma moeda romana por um museu inglês

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22697

  Semíramis Corsi Silva

  113-138

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Artigos / Articles

• Conquistadores, colonizadores e escravizadores As varias raízes da Lacônia espartana

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22720

  Gabriel Cabral Bernardo

  139-161

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• O Longo caminho dos deuses Dioniso/Baco

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22729

  Filomena Barata

  162-186

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• Ático e o papel da economia de crédito na vida política da República Romana (I AEC)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22730

  Margarida Maria de Carvalho, Rafaela Manha da Costa

  187-209

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• A Arqueologia da etnia e da raça no mundo romano O caso do judeu negro Moisés

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22731

  Márcio Teixeira-Bastos, Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari

  210-237

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• Masculinidade e sexualidade em Gladiador II A construção de Macrinus como antagonista

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22732

  Natália Ferreira de Campos, Victor Henrique da Silva Menezes

  238-259

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Resenhas / Reviews

• GRIG, L. POPULAR CULTURE AND THE END OF ANTIQUITY IN SOUTHERN GAUL, C. 400–550. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024. 260p. ISBN: 9781108491440

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22733

  Marcio Monteneri

  260-264

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Notas de Pesquisa/Research Notes

• Nota de uma pesquisa dionisíaca Fontes e historiografia de Dioniso nos textos antigos e sua recepção nos poetas do neogrego

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2025.v10.22734

  João Estevam Lima de Almeida

  265-285

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Vol. 9, No. 1 (2024)

Antiguidade, nacionalismos e identidades complexas na historiografia ocidental: da historiografia acadêmica à cultura de massas na Europa e na América Latina Antigüedad, nacionalismos e identidades complejas en la historiografía occidental: de la historiorafía académica a la cultura de massas en Europa y América Latina (1870-2020)

Publicado: 2025-02-18

Edição completa

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  Glaydson José da Silva, Filipe Noé da Silva

  07

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Apresentação / Foreword

• Nota introdutória ao dossiê ANIHO

  Antonio Duplá

  08-10

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Entrevistas / Interviews

• Projeto ANIHO – Antiguidade, Nacionalimos e identidades Complexas na Historiografia Ocidental Da Historiografia Acadêmica à Cultura de Massas na Europa e na América Latina (1870-2020)

  Antonio Duplá

  11-26

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Dossiê / Dossier

• Revisitando uma polêmica secular na historiografia basca A recepção dos textos clássicos no debate sobre os limites da antiga Cantábria

  Jonatan Pérez Mostazo

  27-51

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• A Contribuição da Antiguidade na construção da Catalunha moderna (1814-1936) A recepção dos textos clássicos no debate sobre os limites da antiga Cantábria

  Jordi Cortadella Morral

  52-77

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• A Correspondência de Pierre Paris (1859-1931) Estado dos locais de uma investigação

  Grégory Reimond

  78-101

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• Urales contra os filósofos A história do pensamento grego segundo um tanoeiro anarquista

  Tomás Aguilera Durán

  102-126

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• Da civilização romana à civilização latina Metamorfose do mito de Roma na Itália, de 1911 a 1952

  Anna Maria Liberati

  127-159

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• Migrações germânicas Recepção e autopercepção na República Federal da Alemanha

  Martin Lindner, Nils Steffensen

  160-185

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• A Recepção da figura de Viriato no Portugal contemporâneo Entre a artes e as letras (Um primeiro tentâme)

  Ana Cristina Martins

  186-211

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• Religião, nação e História Antiga Uma abordagem à obra de Agustín Rivera

  Héctor A. Vega Rodríguez

  212-236

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• A Antiguidade Clássica na diplomacia cultural da Guatemala durante a presidência de Manuel Estrada Cabrera O caso dos Álbuns de Minerva

  Ricardo Del Molino García

  237-266

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• Somos de pedra A linguagem da alegoria clássica nas estátuas cívicas de Buenos Aires (1890-1915)

  Eleonora Dell'Elicine

  267-288

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• O Culto e a destruição das estátuas antigas nas sociedades árabe-islâmicas contemporâneas Historiografia, identidade e patrimônio

  Jorge Elices Ocón

  289-318

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• Reutilização e reinterpretação do clássico no protesto social A revolta social chilena de 2019

  Carolina Valenzuela Matus

  319-342

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Artigos / Articles

• A Comunicação. Mitologia nos museus. Problematização

  Filomena Barata

  343-363

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Documentos / Documents

• Gesta apud Zenophilum: Autos de um processo judicial preservados em uma coletânea sobre as origens da controvérsia donatista (Século IV d.C) Edição crítica, tradução e comentários

  Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira

  364-445

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Open Access Journal: Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts

[First posted in AWOL 18 March 2021, updates 12 August 2026]

 

Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts

eISSN: 2751-4722

Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts aims to publish high quality research on Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri in a timely manner. New text editions of documentary, literary and subliterary papyri or corrections to previously published texts are especially sought. General studies based on papyrological evidence that relate to any aspect of Greco-Roman society in Egypt are also welcome. Articles can be in English, French, German and Italian.

Pylon (ancient Greek πυλών or "gateway") is the OJS journal of the Papyrological Publishing Platform (P3), a collaborative project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and led by Heidelberg University's Institute for Papyrology and University Library and Duke University's Collaborative for Classics Computing in the United States. The goal of P3 is to facilitate data transfer between scholarly journals and the papyrological data repository papyri.info, as it converts transcriptions of ancient texts to EpiDoc for easy transfer to papyri.info. The journal is perceived as a central gateway for this, hence its name.

Although Pylon is primarily an online journal that publishes XML, it also provides PDFs of all articles for download. These are generated automatically from the XML, and are not subject to traditional formatting.

More information about the journal is available here. Details concerning the submission process can be found under submissions; questions can also be directed to any of the editors.

Vol. 9 (2026)

Articles

• Zwei neue Papyri aus der Hamburger Papyrussammlung

  Eleni Avdoulou, Ilias Sourlas

• A Petition to the Prefect of Egypt Clodius Culcianus: Locating the Lower Cynopolite Nome and a Hitherto Unknown Tripolis of Egypt

  Constantinos Balamoshev

• A Heracleopolite Sale of Barley on Delivery

  Nikolaos Gonis, Sophie Kovarik

• O. Leid. 681: Α Letter Attesting the Latin Loanword expungere

  Nikolaos Kolveris

• Une recette médicale pour soigner la rate

  Sandra Lippert

• Wax-tablet Schoolbook in the British Library

  Julia Lougovaya

• Two Roman Tax Receipts from Uppsala

  Mareike-Beatrice Stanke, Kacper Żochowski

• Two Lists of Payments

  Aleksandra Świdurska

Notes and Corrections

• Notes on Papyri, Ostraca and Inked Tortoise Shell from Qasr Ibrim, Didymoi, Berenike and Quseir

  Rodney Ast

• New Readings in the Karanis Papyri at Columbia University

  Roger S. Bagnall

• Note a due ostraca da Gheriat el-Garbia

  Andrea Bernini

• Corrections to the Addresses of Some Late Antique Letters

  Sophie Kovarik

Vol. 8 (2025)

Published: 2025-12-12

Articles

• Four Unpublished Papyri from Hamburg

  Constantinos Balamoshev

• A Coptic Order for the Village Headmen of Tin (Girga)

  Lincoln H. Blumell

• Alkimos and Soterichos, Secretaries of the Grapheion of Herakleia

  W. Graham Claytor

• Oath of an Estate Farmer

  W. Graham Claytor

• Copres, a Village Tesserarius of Pharbaithos in the Arsinoite Nome

  Dan Deac

• Irrwege und theōría. Einige Bemerkungen zu Karneiskos, Philistas 2, PHerc. 1027 col. XIV Capasso

  Jan E. Heßler

• A New Order for Delivery of Oil from the Archive of Theon

  Maria Nowak

• From the Ptolemaic to the Roman Period: the Black Hole from a Typological Perspective

  Paul Schubert

Notes and Corrections

• Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri (BOEP) 13 (August 28, 2025)

  Rodney Ast, Lajos Berkes, James M.S. Cowey, Holger Essler, Julia Lougovaya

• Inspectors’ Annotations in Episkepsis Registers

  Elena Chepel

• Notes on Papyri from Roman Egypt III

  W. Graham Claytor 

Vol. 7 (2025)

Articles

• P. Hamb. graec. 489: Fragment eines Ehevertrages aus Oxyrhynchοs

  Eleni Avdoulou

• An Arabic Private Letter from the Eighth Century

  Lajos Berkes

• A Late Antique Receipt for Grain from the Hermopolite Nome

  Lincoln H. Blumell

• Ein mögliches Beispiel für das Kolumnenmaß in der antiken Stichometrie

  Holger Essler

• An 8th-Century Heracleopolite Compromissum

  Sophie Kovarik

• More on the Homeric Papyri from Karanis

  C. Michael Sampson

• Three Homeric Descripta from Karanis

  C. Michael Sampson, T. Mae Sawatzky, Colin Shields

• Wohnen im spätantiken Arsinoe: ein neuer Mietvertrag

  Micha Teufel

• Two Acknowledgements of Debt for Seed Advances (P.Hamb.Arab. Inv. 80-81)

  Naïm Vanthieghem

 

Vol. 6 (2024)

Articles

• Domine ivimus? CIIP I.2 787 Reconsidered

  Tommi Alho, Timo Korkiakangas

• The Archive of Gelasios

  Roger S. Bagnall

• A Property Declaration from Theadelphia

  W. Graham Claytor

• Macedonias and Other Toponoyms from the Panopolite Nome

  Dan Deac

• Another Instance of Τherapeuteria in the Papyri?

  Nikos Litinas

Notes and Corrections

• Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri (BOEP) 12 (September 12, 2024)

  Rodney Ast, Lajos Berkes, James M.S. Cowey, Holger Essler, Julia Lougovaya

• Critical Notes on Published Documentary Papyri and Ostraca

  Constantinos Balamoshev

• Reflections on Six Private Letters: P.Ross.Georg. 3 1, 9–11, 15, and 18

  Elena Chepel

 

Vol. 5 (2024)

Articles

• An Inscription from the Reign of Probus: Reflections on the Port of Berenike in the Third Century CE

  Rodney Ast

• Edition of the Homeric Fragment P.Oxy. 4 758 descr. (Ε 583‒596)

  Andrea Bernini

• Another Receipt for the Poll Tax from Elephantine

  Lincoln H. Blumell

• Wilckens Briefwechsel mit Eduard Schwartz zur Edition von P.Würzb. 1

  Holger Essler

• Zenon Papyri and Others: Letters of C.C. Edgar to H.I. Bell, 1919–1935

  Nikolaos Gonis, Anna Szajbély

• School Tablet with Divisions and Demonstrations in the Chester Beatty Library

  Julia Lougovaya

• Selling an Inheritance for an Under-age Owner in 7th Century Aphrodite

  Maria Nowak, Brian McGing

• Zwei Ilias-Papyri aus Yale

  Moritz Schwemer, Johanna Strauss

Notes and Corrections

• P.Ross.Georg. 2 13 and Other Corrections to Published Papyri

  Lavinia Ferretti

• Notes on Papyri from Roman Egypt II

  W. Graham Claytor

 

Vol. 4 (2023) 

Articles

• A Document in the Bodleian Addressed to the Governor of Arcadia

  Amin Benaissa

• Curatores in Two Papyri from Heidelberg

  W. Graham Claytor, Dan Deac

• Wilckens Arbeit am Editionsband der Würzburger Papyri (P.Würzb.)

  Holger Essler

• An Antinoite Document of 181–183

  Nikolaos Gonis

• Two Ptolemaic Tax Receipts at University College Dublin

  Todd Hickey

• The Lady, the Radish Oil, and the Bishop: Two Letters from the Bodleian Library

  Sophie Kovarik, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

• A Local Will with a “Codicillary” Clause

  Maria Nowak, W. Graham Claytor

• The Location and Size of Prektis in the Hermopolite nome

  Ryosuke Takahashi

Notes and Corrections

• Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri (BOEP) 11 (October 12, 2023)

  Rodney Ast, Lajos Berkes, James M.S. Cowey, Holger Essler, Julia Lougovaya

• Notes on Mathematical and Mensurational Papyri

  Julia Lougovaya

 

Vol. 3 (2023)

Vol. 2 (2022)

Vol. 1 (2022)

 

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