The latest issue of the academic journal Hunara, officially titled Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, was published in July 2025. This issue marks the first volume of the journal’s third year and has been released by Casa Editrice Persiani in Bologna, Italy.

Hunara is an international platform dedicated to the study of ancient Iranian history and art, aiming to present the latest scholarly research in this field. The journal is edited by Helen Giunashvili (Ilia State University, Tbilisi), Matteo Compareti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), and Milad Jahangirfar (University of Art, Tehran).

This new issue, consisting of 136 pages of original research, features articles that explore, on the one hand, visual representations and stylistic analysis in Sasanian art, and on the other, examine Armenian sources on Cyrus the Great and Achaemenid-era relations between Iran, Georgia, and the broader South Caucasus region. The issue also introduces new archaeological evidence on Achaemenid column bases in the Caucasus and includes a study that revisits a Middle Elamite text, contributing to a deeper understanding of Elamite history.

Articles featured in this issue include:

• Skupniewicz, “The Scene of Bear Hunt on the Sasanian Silver Plate from the Wyvern Collection. On Segmented Image-Building in Sasanian Art”
• Khorikyan, “Cyrus the Great in Armenian Sources and Armenia”
• Kapanadze, “Characteristics of Georgian-Iranian Relations during the Achaemenid Period”
• Gagoshidze and D. Gagoshidze, “Persian-Achaemenid Bell-Shaped Column Bases from the South Caucasus: New Evidence”
• Goldberg, “A Kurigalzu II Reading of VS 24.91 and Early Middle Elamite History”

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