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...

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...

Der Band verbucht insgesamt 54 Namen der Hebräischen Bibel (einschließlich der Abschnitte in Aramäisch), für die eine iranische Deutung sicher oder plausibel ist; ferner werden 17 Namen kritisch diskutiert, für die in der Forschung unterschiedliche iranische Herleitungen vorgeschlagen wurden, die jedoch abzulehnen sind. Mit dem Band liegt somit ein verlässliches Referenzwerk vor, durch das die Einträge dieser Namen in Ferdinand Justis „Iranischem Namenbuch“ (1895) und die Analyse von Isidor...

This volume of the “Iranisches Personennamenbuch” (Lexicon of Iranian personal names) presents for the first time a full collection of the personal names attested in Egyptian (Hieroglyphic as well as Demotic) sources, that are of Iranian origin. Those names became known in Egypt mainly during the two periods of Achaemenid rule over this land (between 526 and ca. 400 BCE and in the last years before Alexander’s campaign respectively). They are discussed in detail from the Egyptologist’s and the...

After decades of relative neglect, the Tocharian languages are assuming an increasingly prominent role in Indo-European studies. The enormous progress in Tocharian historical phonology and morphology since the 1960s has called into question the longstanding perception of this branch as an aberrant offshoot, of little importance for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. Recent studies, particularly of the verb but also of the noun, phonology, and lexicon, have uncovered a number of probable...

This is the first issue of the new multi-volume publication on the subject of Multilingualism and the History of Knowledge, edited by Jens E. Braarvig, Markham J. Geller, Velizar Sadovski and Gebhard J. Selz and published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, uniting a number of papers on cross-linguistic and cross-religious cultural relations in Central Asia. Historical-comparative and contrastive-typological studies of the phenomenon of Multilingualism have been continuously increasing in the...

Manfred Mayrhofer, emeritus professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Vienna, who after having been for more than forty years a very active and prolific member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has passed away on 31 October 2011, was one of the most important Indo-European and Indo-Iranian scholars of our time. In the present small book Mayrhofer’s life and œuvre is described and appreciated in succinct form by his first pupil. The main part of the volume is 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...

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 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...