Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period HB

John Curtis was Keeper of the Middle East Department at the British Museum 1989-2011. He is now Chief Executive Officer of the Iran Heritage Foundation, President of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and a Trustee of the Honor Frost Foundation. He specialises in the archaeology and history of Iraq and Iran c. 1000-330 BC on which he has written or edited twenty-three books and more than 100 articles. He directed excavations at eight different sites in Iraq on behalf of the British Museum between 1982 and 1989, including the important Assyrian sites of Khirbet Qasrij, Khirbet Khatuniyeh, Nimrud and Balawat.

Editor's Note
Introduction
- John Curtis
Terence Mitchell's Published Works

1. Five Unpublished Persepolis Relief Fragments in the Ashmolean Museum
- Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2. Where Did the Persian Kings Live in Babylon?
- John Curtis, Curator Emeritus, British Museum; Director, Iran Heritage Foundation
3. The Use of Seals in Babylonia under the Achaemenids
- Christopher Walker, Curator Emeritus, British Museum
4. An Iranian in the Court of King Nebuchadnezzar
- Alan Millard, Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool
5. Biblical Archaeology in the Persian Period
- Terence Mitchell, lately Curator Emeritus, British Museum
6. The Textual Connections between the Cyrus Cylinder and the Bible, with Particular Reference to Isaiah
- Shahrokh Razmjou, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran
7. Interpreting Sasanian Beards: Significant Images in an Interconnected World
- Prudence Harper, Curator Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art
8. Sasanian-Zoroastrian Intellectual Life in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD
- Mahnaz Moazami, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica, University of Columbia

Index of selected place-names and personal names