• Touraj Daryaee - University of California, Irvine, USA - email

Introduction

• Introduction
• Stefano Pellò

0   Crossings

• Sui confini della poesia
• Gianroberto Scarcia

1   A Marchland of Words

• Additional Considerations about Ved. Síndhu-, Av. Hiṇdu-/Həṇdu
• Antonio Panaino

• Arabic ḥadd in Iranian
  Notes on Some Cases of Grammaticalization
• Ela Filippone

2   Inspecting Perimeters

• If these Walls Could Speak
   The Barrier of Alexander, Wall of Darband and Other Defensive Moats
• Touraj Daryaee

• Cycles and Circumferences
  The Tower of Gonbad-e Kāvus as a Time-Marking Monument
• Simone Cristoforetti

3   Iconography on a Threshold

• Flying over Boundaries
  Auspicious Birds in Sino-Sogdian Funerary Art
• Matteo Compareti

• Vague Traits
  Strategy and Ambiguities in the Decorative Programme of the Aḥmad Šāh I Bahmanī Mausoleum
• Sara Mondini

4   Lines of Transition

• Kashmir and the Mughal Fad of Persian Pastoral Poetry
• Sunil Sharma

• A Linguistic Conversion
  Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl and the Varieties of Persian (ca. 1790)
• Stefano Pellò

5   On the Limes

• A World In-between
  The Pre-Islamic Cultures of the Hindu Kush
• Augusto Cacopardo

• Transregional Intoxications
  Wine in Buddhist Gandhara and Kafiristan
• Max Klimburg

6   Identity and the Others

• Marginalia on the Idea of Boundary and the Discourse on Identity in Iran
• Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti

• Perceptions and Treatments of the Close Other in Northern Iran
• Christian Bromberger

7   Mirrors and Beyond

• Certified Copy
  The Thin Line between Original and Original
• Marco Dalla Gassa

• Crossing Borders
  Iranian Landscapes as Visual Prototypes around the World
• Riccardo Zipoli

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_55
dc.contributor.author	Daryaee Touraj
dc.title	If these Walls Could Speak.  The Barrier of Alexander, Wall of Darband and Other Defensive Moats
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This essay provides a brief discussion of the views of the Sasanians about the limits of their empire from the third to the seventh century CE. The walls created on the boundaries of the empire from the first century of its existence to the final brick in the wall in the sixth provides an image of Iranshahr. The material culture is set aside the literary evidence and their differences and ideological values are highlighted.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/if-these-walls-could-speak/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-100-3/EUR-5-4
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-101-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-100-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Barrier
dc.subject	Barrier
dc.subject	Defensive moat
dc.subject	Defensive moat
dc.subject	Iranshahr
dc.subject	Iranshahr
dc.subject	Sasanians
dc.subject	Sasanians
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