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This paper offers a new etymology for the divine name attested in Pahlavi as Tīr. Its basis is a calque on the most salient feature of the iconography of the Mesopotamian god Nabû, on whom the Iranian god (*Tiriya) was modeled in the Achaemenid period.
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Bracey, R. (2012), “Policy, Patronage, and the Shrinking Pantheon of the Kushans”, V. Jayaswal (ed.), Glory of the Kushans: Recent Discoveries and Interpretations, New Delhi: 197–217.
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Cammarosano, M. (2016), “Cuneiform Writing Techniques in the Ancient Near East”, Cuneiform.neocities (available online at: https://cuneiform.neocities.org/CWT/CWT, last accessed on August 3rd, 2024).
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Panaino, A. (2024), “Tištar and the ‘good’ Tîr”, Siddham, Studies in Iranian Philology in Honour of Mauro Maggi, Wiesbaden: 345–352.
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Pokorny, J. (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Vol. 1, Bern.
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Schwartz, M. (1985), “The Religion of Achaemenian Iran”, I. Gershevitch (ed.), Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 2: 664–697.
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Schwartz, M. (2010), “On Rashnu’s Scales and the Chinvant’s Bridge, with Etymological Appendices”, Studia Asiatica 11: 99–104.
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Steingass, F. (1882), A Comprehensive Persian Dictionary, Oxford.
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Tavernier, J. (2018), “The Origin and Early History of Tīr”, R. LeBrun/É. van Quickelberghe (eds.), Cosmogonies et Religion, Brepols: 77–98.
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This paper offers a new etymology for the divine name attested in Pahlavi as Tīr. Its basis is a calque on the most salient feature of the iconography of the Mesopotamian god Nabû, on whom the Iranian god (*Tiriya) was modeled in the Achaemenid period.
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