The great Iranian divide: between aniconic West and anthropomorphic East
The Avesta and the Rig Veda, our earliest sources for the Indo-Iranian religious tradition, contain ideas and elements with both aniconic and iconic potential. The cultic iconography in Western and Eastern Iran developed in a remarkably different manner. While the Achaemenian and Sasanian cults were...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-398 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iran (Antiquity)
/ Kushana, Dynastie : 200 BC-300
/ Sogdians
/ Zoroastrianism
/ Religious art
/ Iconic element
/ Anthropomorphism
/ Image prohibition
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BC Ancient Orient; religion KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Sasanian
B Aniconism B Iran B Sogdian B Achaemenian B Zoroastrianism B Anthropomorphism B Kushan |
