Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh
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silk worms (breeding of) 207<br />
silk 114, 195, 202–3, 207<br />
smuggling 146<br />
society (Armenian) 174, 176<br />
society (Persian) 38<br />
solidus 280<br />
sources 3–4<br />
spices 195<br />
spies (see ‘espionage’)<br />
standards 12, 84<br />
Strata Diocletiana 31<br />
strategic location(s) 154–5, 156<br />
succession (in Persia) 28, 47, 236–7<br />
superstition (see also ‘false doctrines’) 216<br />
supplies 91–2, 196, 252<br />
supreme god 218<br />
symbols 4, 79<br />
Synod of Bēt Lāpāt 36<br />
tabularius 150, 280<br />
tactics 63–9, 91–2<br />
taxes (see also ‘payments’ and ‘tribute’) 133–4, 201<br />
n. 140<br />
technicians 255–7<br />
territorial agreements 120<br />
territorial claims 53–6<br />
territorial terms 144–5<br />
tetrarchy 280<br />
tolerance (see ‘religious tolerance’)<br />
towers (see ‘watch-towers’)<br />
trade 19, 32, 145–6, 154–6, 195–209<br />
trade (local) 129<br />
trade (long distance) 163–4, 199<br />
trade (maritime) 200 n. 136<br />
trade (Persian, intermediate) 112<br />
trade (places of) 129, 145–6<br />
trade (Roman) 112<br />
trade and security (link between) 244<br />
trade policy 195<br />
trade route(s) 153, 164, 195–6, 199, 202,<br />
206<br />
traders (see also ‘merchants’) 196<br />
General index 347<br />
traffic of goods (see also ‘goods, exchange<br />
of ’) 196, 200<br />
Transcaucasian peoples 189<br />
transfer of technology 261<br />
translators (see ‘interpreters’)<br />
transmission of information 221<br />
transport (of goods) 163, 197<br />
trans-shipment (centre) 163–4, 199<br />
Trans-Tigritania 126–9, 131, 133<br />
tribute 39, 81, 98, 110, 113–14, 119, 177, 194<br />
trilingual inscription (see ‘ ˇ Sāpūr Inscription’)<br />
triumph 87, 162–3<br />
triumphal arch 86–8<br />
triumphal reliefs (see ‘rock reliefs’)<br />
vassal kings (see also ‘client kings’) 113, 152, 168,<br />
177, 276, 281<br />
venue (of negotiations) 126, 143 n. 127<br />
visual representation 4, 79, 121–2, 135–6<br />
visual testimonies 66<br />
walls (see ‘fortification’)<br />
watch-towers 31, 101–2, 107 n. 162<br />
West vs. East 1, 2, 70<br />
Western ‘know-how’ 23, 263<br />
Western influence (artistic) 256–8<br />
‘White Huns’ 36, 97<br />
Will of Ardaˇsīr 211<br />
world domination 1, 13–14, 53, 60, 105 n. 147,<br />
106, 118, 130<br />
xvarna 234<br />
xvarrah (see xvarna)<br />
Zarathustrianism (see also ‘Zoroastrianism’)<br />
210 nn. 1 and 3, 281<br />
Zich 139–43, 139 n. 110<br />
Zoroastrian ‘state cult’ 211–13<br />
Zoroastrian Persia 147, 151, 218, 230–1<br />
Zoroastrianism 106, 182, 187, 210–31, 281<br />
Zoroastrianism (kings patrons of) 24, 213–16<br />
Zoroastrians 137, 183
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