Iranisches Personennamenbuch

This volume of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch (Lexicon of Iranian per¬sonal names) presents a full collection and detailed interpretation of those an¬throponyms attested in 9th 7th c. Neo-Assyrian texts (annals, reports on mili¬tary campaigns, oracle inquiries, letters etc.), which certainly or quite probably are of Iranian origin; but it takes into account those names too, which are remi¬niscent of Iranian names and previously were explained as Iranian by mistake, and those, which are latent...

Ossetic personal names hold a special position within Iranian onomastics. The reason for this lies in the very specific historical development and local linguistic situation that separates Ossetic from other modern Iranian languages. Ossetic, which is represented by two main dialects (Iron / Digor) and is spoken today on both sides of the Caucasus main range, can be traced back – via medieval Alanic – to the Scytho-Sarmatian dialects of antiquity. The isolation from the rest of the Iranian...

The present fascicle continues the Middle Iranian part of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch. It deals with personal names attested in published texts in Sogdian language, an eastern Iranian vernacular which came down to us from the texts composed between first centuries CE and 11th century in Sogdian heartland (today, parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) and along the routes of the Great Silk road, where Sogdians used to vend and settle. More than 1600 items collected in the volume and arranged...

Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of personal names, whose various linguistic origins – Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of course native Bactrian 舑 mirror the variety of peoples and religions which combined to form the unique...

This supplement to "Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique" (IPNB II/2, 1986) records the personal names contained in the sources published from 1986 to 2001. This new fascicle now contains 383 entries, 228 of which are for "new" names. All personal names known so far show the uniformity of Sasanian onomastics across the different types of sources.

This volume of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch (Lexicon of Iranian personal names) presents a full collection of the personal names attested between 150 BCE and 300 CE in Parthian epigraphical sources, inclusive of patronymics and family names as well as the topographical names derived from personal names. Also non-Parthian and even non-Iranian (Semitic, Latin, etc.) personal names are taken into account, as they are part of the onomastic material attested in an Iranian language. The...

This volume of the „Iranisches Personennamenbuch“ (Lexicon of Iranian personal names), based on numerous preliminary studies by the author (among them three volumes of „Iranica Graeca Vetustiora“), presents a full collection and detailed interpretation of those personal names attested in the Greek literature of the classical period (i.e. before Alexander the Great), that are of Iranian origin, have entered Greek via an Iranian language or at least had been regarded as of Iranian provenance...

This volume presents for the first time a full collection of the personal names attested in Iranian sources of Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic and syncretistic world religion (3rd–14th century). This extremely heterogeneous corpus from the Central Asian Turfan oasis (Xinjiang, China) goes back to the golden age of Manichaeism in the Uygur steppe empire and the kingdom of Qočo (8th–11th century) but can be partly traced back to more ancient originals. It comprises ca. 4700 text fragments in...