Rethinking Sasanian Iconoclasm.
This article presents a detailed reconsideration of the well-established and canonized theory of "Sasanian iconoclasm" postulated by Mary Boyce in 1975. The Sasanians did not develop any prohibition against anthropomorphic representations of the gods, and in the surviving Zoroastrian literature and...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 135; no. 3; pp. 471 - 499 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
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