Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, Volume 2, No. 1, June 2024, Pages 1-97.

The second issue of Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History is now published and freely accessible online. This issue features a diverse range of articles that explore ancient Mesopotamian astrology concerning Elam, cultural exchanges between pre-Islamic Iran and ancient Georgia, Achaemenid onomasticon, language contact between the Parthians and Romans, and the role of the Sasanian power in the fall of the Roman Empire.

This issue presents the following articles:

• One Person, Several Names: Median or Old Persian? (Amir Zamani, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
• Causality or Correlation: The Decline of Rome Due to the Sasanians (Nathan Decety, University of Chicago)
• Ancient Georgia and pre-Islamic Iran: Issues of Cultural Relations in the Light of Glyptic Data (Helen Giunashvili, Ilia State University; Ketevan R. Ramishvili, Georgian National Museum)
• Mesopotamian Astrology about Elam: An Introductory Overview (Enrique Quintana Cifuentes, CEPOAT, Universidad de Murcia)
• The Language of the Parthians Living in the Roman Empire (Berta González Saavedra and Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Complutense University of Madrid)

The next thematic issue, “Ancient Iran and the South Caucasus,” will be published in December 2024.

To read the latest issue, visit the website at: https://www.hunara.org.