Name Index
Akhetaten, city of
91–94
Amanus mountain range (ancient Ḫamānu)
50, 50–53, 63n95, 361, 362
Amarna
85–94, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 106
Ambarderesi stream
16, 16
Amurru, Sea of
54, 58
Arsameia on the Euphrates (Gerger)
250–251
Aššur
54–59, 152, 229
Assyria
48, 51, 54, 57, 151–152, 190, 203, 354, 361–362
Atalur, Mt. (Lallar, Mt.)
51, 53, 61, 63
Babylon
222, 238–240, 243–246, 361–362, 388, 395–397, 408
Babylonia
238, 243, 370, 405
Bagastāna. see Bīsotūn
Bamiyan
22–23
Birkleyn
53, 55, 58
Bishapur
256, 257
Bīsotūn (Bisitun, Bagastāna)
Arsacid reliefs
126, 227–231, 240–243, 241, 246, 257, 264–266
Darius I relief
126, 210, 229, 232, 234–246, 251, 264–266, 288
diademed mounted lancers
252
in Herodotus, Histories
186, 190, 207, 209, 210–211, 214
in illuminations of Jalayirid and Timurid periods
261, 262, 282, 292–295
in illuminations of Khusrau va Shirin saga
261, 262, 277, 285, 288–295
in Zakariya Qazvini, The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence
288–293, 290, 294
Sasanian reliefs
126, 233, 257–258, 264
Tarāš-e Farhād
232, 258–261, 259, 260
waqf inscription
240–241, 263
“Weary Herakles”
227, 237, 238, 240, 242–243, 264
Blue Nile
97
Bolkar Dağ
151, 152
Bosporus
189, 193t, 196, 205, 209
Brisa, Wadi Sharabin
353, 357–363, 359, 360, 365, 367–369
Bubastis
191t, 192
Canopus
407, 422
Cataract, First (Khebu)
94–106, 95
Chilminar. see Persepolis, Chilminar informal name of
Commagene
250–251, 296–298, 304–308
Dayenu
58
Dibni Çay (Dibni Su), head of the Tigris
4, 13, 15–16, 15, 53–59, 58, 63, 126–127, 144, 145, 264
Dur-Katlimu, stele of Adad-Nerari III
151
Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad)
62
Elephantine
236
Elymaïs
227, 240, 242, 246
Emirgazi
116, 118, 120t
Ereğli
152
Ethiopia
193t, 192, 197–198, 200, 204, 208
Euboea
194t, 195, 209
Euphrates
lost stelae of Tuthmosis I and III
83
source of
57
Fars
272, 273, 280, 293, 299–308, 328, 334
Fıraktın
116, 120t, 122, 178
Ganj-nāma
234, 236
Giza
177, 177, 180
Haç Dağı (Staurin, Mt.)
164–165, 168, 170–171, 175, 181
Hagr el-Merwa
76, 76–85, 78, 80, 103, 106
Haran
389
Hatti, land of
69, 124
Hattusa
9, 115, 118n8, 122–124, 131, 153
Hegra (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ)
4, 29
Herakleia. see Hubušna
Herat
293, 302, 317, 325
Hermon, Mt.
348, 353, 363
Hormuz
304, 307
Hubušna (Hupisna; Kubistra/Herakleia; present-day Ereğli)
152
Imgur-Enlil. see Balawat
India
186, 208, 264, 393
Indus River
205, 208
Ionia
191t, 191, 200–201, 208–209
Isfahan
Allahverdi Khan’s construction project in
306
paintings from
275, 277, 279–285, 301, 303, 310–334, 311, 319, 321, 327, 332
Shah ʿAbbas I redevelopment of
272–275, 276, 277–279, 317
spolia from Persepolis
304–305, 307–310, 312–315, 322, 333–334
Istakhr. see Persepolis, Istakhr in Persian texts
İvriz
4, 16, 17, 16–18, 148, 149
Izeh Valley (Mālamīr)
246–247, 248
Jagiran River
243
Judea (Judah)
142, 346, 354
Kaʿba-ye Zardošt (Naqš-e Rostam)
229, 233, 253
Kalhu. see Nimrud
Kara Su. see Saluara River
Karabel
4, 5, 8, 116, 121t, 173, 200–201, 206, 368
Karabur
4, 7, 148n56
Karadağ
116, 121t, 150
Karakuyu-Torbali
116, 120t, 202n45
Kelishin
4, 24, 25
Kerman
273, 273, 301, 317
Kermanshah
273, 274, 285
Ṭāq-e Bostān
Khanes
251–252
Khebu (First Cataract)
94–106, 95
Kızıldağ
4, 7, 114, 116, 120t, 121t, 128–154, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134
Ḵong-e Āždar
246–250, 248, 265
Konosso Island (Sawaba)
94–107, 96–99, 101–105, 107
Konya plain
114, 123, 128, 136, 172, 173n26
Kubistra. see Hubušna
Kūl-e Farah
246–247, 249, 265–266
Kūrangūn
230, 265–266
Kurdistan
24–25, 25, 26, 229, 250, 251
Kurt Dağ. see Atalur, Mt
Kush
103, 208
Lachish
142, 143, 143
Lallar, Mt. (Atalur, Mt.)
51, 53, 61, 63
Lebanon, Mt.
50, 63
Lydia
126, 193t, 194, 208
Mālamīr (Izeh Valley)
246–247, 248
Malthai
4, 26
Mashhad
317, 318, 322, 323
Memphis
93, 191t, 192, 205
Merquly fortress
250
Moeris Lake
191t, 192
Muli, Mt.
151–152
Muška (Phrygia)
150, 153
Myrmex reef (Euboea)
194t, 195, 209
Nahr el-Kalb
Assyrian inscription
11, 356
in Herodotus, Histories
188, 211–212
redeploying antiquities
173
stelae of Ramses II
11, 69, 71, 356
succession of reliefs
4, 12, 69, 71, 127, 214, 227, 356
Nairi, Sea of
48–49, 54, 58, 63
Naqš-e Rostam (Naqsh-e Rustam)
Achaemenid pavilion and tower
230, 233
Achaemenid rock-cut tombs
230, 232, 233, 253, 265, 312
Darius I rock-cut tomb
231, 232–234, 236
Elamite water sanctuary
230, 256
Kaʿba-ye Zardošt inscriptions
227, 231, 251
“Kayanid” identity of
253, 265
relief of Narseh
228n14, 256
relief of Šābuhr I
228
relief of Wahrām II
231, 255, 254–256
Sasanian rock reliefs
228, 233, 255, 256
succession of reliefs
126, 233, 255, 254–256
throne-platform supporters
312
Navkur Plain
251
Nile River
76, 93, 381, 384, 418.
Catararact, First
Nimrud (Kalhu)
Fort Shalmaneser
47
northwestern Palace
60n89, 139, 141, 146n51
Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
58n89
royal court
47
Shalmaneser III statue
151–152
Tiglath-pileser
III relief, Central palace, 142
Nineveh
49, 142, 251
Nisantaş (Hattusa)
8, 116n8
Nubia
79, 103, 105, 107, 208
Palestine, Syrian
193t, 197, 208, 211–213
Paramagrun, Mt.
250
Pārsa
228–231, 234, 236, 240, 251, 252, 265–266
Pasargadae
231, 296n44
Persepolis
Achaemenid inscriptions
229, 234
Achaemenid palaces
234, 253, 265, 297, 312–316, 313, 314
Achaemenid reliefs
257, 265, 272, 282, 297, 299, 312–316, 313, 314
Achaemenid tombs
232
Chilminar, informal name of
296, 298, 304–305, 308
European travelers’ accounts
282, 296, 304–305, 307–308, 329–331, 330
Hundred Columned Hall
234, 312, 314
Istakhr in Persian texts
296, 298, 301, 303, 308, 320, 323
“Kayanid” identity of
265
Palace of Darius
232, 296, 298, 300, 309, 323
performance at
274, 296, 299–301
post Achaemenid graffiti and inscriptions
274, 282, 298–302, 308, 310
Safavid period
273–274, 280, 282, 295, 301–310, 312–315, 333–334
“sphinxes”
177
spoliation of
274, 298, 304–305, 307–310, 312–315, 322–325, 333–334
Taḵt-e Jamšid medieval name of
258
throne-platform supporters
312–316, 313, 314
Phrygia
126, 150, 178, 193t.
Muška; Priz(wa)nda
Prizu(wa)nda
150
Qasr-e Abu Nasr
298n47, 309
Qazvin
302, 312n100
Que, cities of
56
Rabbana fortress
250
Saluara River (Kara Su)
50, 53, 63n95
Sam’al (Zinçirli)
50, 140, 146, 148, 151
Samos
193t, 194, 196, 250
Sarāb-e Qandīl, relief of Wahrām II
228n14
Sar Mashhad relief
322, 323
Sardis
202, 208
Sar-e Pol-e Zohāb
243–246, 244, 245, 252
Sawaba (Konosso Island)
94–107, 96–99, 101–105
Scythia
193t, 196, 197, 200, 204, 205, 207, 208, 212
Serieaica. See see Seiris, land of, Serieaica
Seiris, land of
in Book of Sothis
385, 387, 394
in Josephus
350, 387, 404, 408
Serieaica
416
translated as Syria
410, 416, 420–421
Šekāft-e Salmān
246
Sela‘ of Edom, reliefs of Nabonidus
351
Shir es-Sanam
356
Shiraz
293, 298, 302, 304, 305–307, 309, 317
Sippar
382, 394, 406
Sipylos, Mt.
178, 180
Sophene
250
Staurin, Mt. (Haç Dağı)
164–165, 168, 170–171, 175, 181
Susa
61n92, 201, 202, 231, 232, 265
Tabala
151–153
Tabriz
261, 273, 278, 292, 301
Taḵt-e Jamšid. see Persepolis
Ṭāq-e Bostān/Taq-e Bustan
ayvān of Khusrau II
258–259, 258, 261, 285–288, 286
coronation of King Ardashir II
24, 27
free-standing royal statue
285–289, 287
illustrated in Persian manuscript as Bīsotūn
173, 261, 274, 285, 289–295, 333
Qājār graffiti
263
Qājār reliefs
263
relief of Šābuhr III
257, 258
waqf inscriptions
263
Tarāš-e Farhād (Bīsotūn)
232, 258–261, 259, 260
Tarhuntassa
123–125, 131, 153
Tearus River
193t, 196, 209
Thermopylae
194, 194t, 196
Thrace
196, 197, 208
Tigris River
15–16, 57, 144, 145.
Dibni Çay
Tikrakka
62–63, 62
Tunni, Mt.
151–152
Turkmen Karahöyük
136–137, 146, 150
Tušpa (Citadel of Van)
230n18, 234–236, 235
Tyre
192t, 194, 212
Van, Citadel of (Tušpa)
230n18, 234–236, 235
Van Lake
4, 22
Wadi es-Saba
356–357, 357, 358, 366
Yazılıkaya
116, 117, 119t
Zagros mountains
24, 154, 285, 323n124
Zinçirli (Sam’al)
50, 140, 146, 148, 151