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05/01/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
A lion's head and torso, with inlaid garnet eyes, open roaring mouth, and bulging veins, leaps out from the curved body of this large Parthian silver rhyton

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 4: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Transformations

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture examines Arsacid luxury material beyond Iran both as object and idea. As under the Achaemenids before and Sasanians after, these charismatic objects potentially entangled or “assembled” aspects of identities of those outside the empire at a range of societal levels, including those who had dealings with the empire and those who encountered them even in negative and in reaction.
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