Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1356186322000803
S. Khosravi, S. Alibaigi, Mostafa Doosti, H. Pittman, Naser Aminikhah, Ali Khayani
The Mahidasht region is a vital cultural sphere on the Great Khorasan Road that has provided substantial evidence for administrative activity, which is considered to be an indicator of economic and political complexity in late prehistoric societies. This article discusses a corpus of bureaucratic artefacts from the site of Tapeh Tyalineh in the Kouzaran plain in the north of Mahidasht, including 52 jar sealings and 12 door sealings. The artefacts were found during the recent surveys conducted by two of the authors at Tapeh Tyalineh after reports were received of illegal diggings at the site by villagers who had used its soil to plaster the roofs of their houses and to level and cultivate their farmland. Tyalineh seal impressions are studied here in terms of style and iconography in order to date the corpus of administrative artefacts. Furthermore, applying a functionalist approach, the artefacts are examined to answer questions regarding the nature and function of the site. The results suggest that the corpus dates to the proto-Elamite era. The significance of the door sealings, as the most important artefact type from Tyalineh, is that at least a part of the site was devoted to administrative affairs, which probably involved holding certain commodities in rather small closed-mouthed jars and then securing them behind locked doors. The administrative technology not only at Tyalineh but also at Chogha Maran and Dehsavar in Mahidasht and Godin VI:1 in Kangavar attest to well-established Early Bronze Age administrative and economic institutions along the Khorasan Road in the Central Zagros, which were involved in interregional commercial interactions.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1356186323000111
Andrew Topsfield
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s135618632300010x
Christian Mueller
Preußen-Deutschland und China 1842–1911. Eine kommentierte Quellenedition Edited by Cord Eberspächer, Jürgen Kloosterhuis, Zou Ailian, Hu Zhongliang, Andreas Steen, Xu Kai and Xu Jian (= Veröffentlichungen aus den Archiven Preußischer Kulturbesitz —Quellen; Bd. 74). 592 pp. Berlin, Duncker ad Humblot, 2021.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1356186323000184
Taylor C. Sherman
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1017/s1356186322000244
W. Wen
This article examines the different mechanisms of the circulation of Chinese ceramics in the Middle East during the Abbasid-Chinese ceramic exchange during the eighth–tenth centuries ce. Although trade has been used conveniently to denote the circulation of Chinese wares in the Abbasid Caliphate, it is not the only mechanism that existed. There were also other possible processes of circulation, such as ceramics sent as tributes, diplomatic gifts, and samples, and secondary distribution through looting and pilgrimage. Not all Chinese wares shipped to the Middle East were luxury goods. Different types of Chinese wares had different functions and commercial and aesthetic values in the Middle East. It is an oversimplification to describe the circulation of Chinese wares in the Middle East as merely the result of the luxury goods trade.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1017/S1356186322000827
Emma Kalb
Abstract Across the early modern Islamicate world, the phenomenon of eunuch slavery constitutes a significant aspect of courtly contexts and royal households. Although Mughal historiography has focused on the eunuch primarily in relation to the harem, this article analyses the function of such figures in regulating elite male space, in order to explore how these practices shaped both the representation of courtly life as well as the dynamics animating the Mughal court and the inner palace. As is shown in both textual and visual materials, enslaved, castrated men appear as figures both marking and mediating the perimeters of such spaces. In the process they played an important part in the spatial formation of access, intimacy, and hierarchical relations. However, their formative role in mediating elite social interactions at times entangled eunuchs in political conflict. The article concludes with an examination of a particularly dense archive of evidence from the reign of Aurangzeb dealing with royal princes. This material underlines the sometimes-precarious situation of eunuchs in moments of intrafamilial struggle, a fact which suggests the complicated reality of these kinds of intimate roles not only in Mughal princely households but wherever they took on such proximate positions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1017/s135618632200061x
A. Dastur
The ancient Zoroastrian hymn of worship dedicated to the frauuaṣ̌i-s (affirmative choices) of righteous mortals and divinities refers to an important discourse that takes place between an unnamed Zoroastrian poet-sage and his mysterious rival, named Gaōtəma. The figure of Gaōtəma has intrigued Avestan scholars through the years, but the significance and the implications of Gaōtəma's identity, and of his presence in the hymn, has to date not been seriously studied. This article first examines the context in which Gaōtəma is presented in the hymn. Building upon this, it then evaluates four potential identities for Gaōtəma: Avestan, Turanian, Buddhist, and Vedic. Conducting a multidisciplinary and comparative assessment, the article eventually argues in favour of a Vedic identity for Gaōtəma, specifically that of a poet-sage who was a proponent of the Rig Vedic divinity Indra. This investigation into Gaōtəma's identity concomitantly provides important perspectives on certain aspects of the Zoroastrian religion, and often in a comparative context.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S1356186322000232
Edward Weech
Benjamin Bowen Carter (1771–1831) will not be familiar to many readers, but this ‘scholar-linguist’ was ‘the only American engaged in the serious study of Chinese at the beginning of the nineteenth century’ (p. 297). Yeung Man Shun’s important new study establishes Carter’s place within the annals of American Sinology, while also throwing new light on other important topics, including the more active field of British Chinese Studies in the early 1800s. To this end, Yeung examines hitherto unknown and understudied primary sources from a wide range of collections (including the Royal Asiatic Society), harnessing varied material from the United States, France, Britain, and elsewhere—an especially notable achievement during pandemic conditions. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Carter was the son of a publisher—his father served as a printer’s apprentice to Benjamin Franklin—and he was educated at Rhode Island College (now Brown University). Proficient in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, Carter trained as a physician and operated a medical practice until, in 1798, he signed on as ship’s surgeon for a trading voyage to Canton. This was the first of what would ultimately become five journeys to the Far East (four to Canton and one to Batavia), and the modest but increasing trading privileges which Carter secured on these trips would eventually make his fortune (pp. 32–36). Rhode Island had recently been at the heart of opposition to the British Crown during the American War of Independence, and it would now become prominent in America’s burgeoning trade with the Far East. At this time, all Western trade was conducted through the port of Canton, and it was here that Carter arrived at the end of 1798. The new environment would stimulate Carter’s curiosity about languages, a trait demonstrated during the journey to China when, after going ashore at Botany Bay, he made phonetic transcriptions of the speech of a local man known as Maroot the Elder (circa 1773–1817). These would later become a valuable source for the study of the history of the native languages of Australia (p. 39). If Carter’s trips to China rewarded him financially, they also allowed him the rare opportunity to mingle with Chinese merchants, and sympathetic contacts helped kindle a fascination with the richness and complexity of Chinese culture. Carter’s fifth and final journey, taking place between 1804 and 1806, allowed him to stay in Canton for over a year, and he clearly enjoyed this long period of relative liberty to indulge his interest in Chinese language. Drawing on Carter’s little-studied manuscript and archival collections, Yeung reconstructs Carter’s Chinese language studies, which took place ‘according
本杰明·鲍文·卡特(Benjamin Bowen Carter, 1771-1831)对很多读者来说并不熟悉，但这位“语言学家”是“19世纪初唯一一位认真研究汉语的美国人”(第297页)。杨文顺重要的新研究确立了卡特在美国汉学史册上的地位，同时也为其他重要话题提供了新的视角，包括19世纪早期更为活跃的英国中国研究领域。为此，杨从广泛的收藏(包括皇家亚洲学会)中考察了迄今为止未知的和未充分研究的原始资料，利用了来自美国、法国、英国和其他地方的各种材料——这是在大流行时期特别显着的成就。卡特出生在罗德岛的普罗维登斯，父亲是一位出版商——他的父亲曾是本杰明·富兰克林的印刷学徒——他在罗德岛学院(现在的布朗大学)接受教育。卡特精通拉丁语、希腊语和希伯来语，成为一名内科医生，并经营着一家医疗诊所，直到1798年，他签约成为一艘前往广州的贸易航行船上的外科医生。这是他五次远东之旅中的第一次(四次到广州，一次到巴达维亚)，卡特在这些旅行中获得的贸易特权虽然不多，但却越来越多，最终使他发了财(第32-36页)。在美国独立战争期间，罗德岛是反对英国王室的核心地区，在美国与远东迅速发展的贸易中，它将发挥重要作用。当时，所有的西方贸易都是通过广州港进行的，卡特于1798年底到达这里。新的环境激发了卡特对语言的好奇心，这是他在中国之旅中表现出来的一个特点。在博特尼湾上岸后，他把一个名叫老马鲁特(Maroot The Elder，约1773-1817年)的当地人的演讲语音记录下来。这些后来成为研究澳大利亚本土语言历史的宝贵资料(第39页)。如果说卡特的中国之行给他带来了经济上的回报，那么这也让他有了与中国商人交往的难得机会，而富有同情心的接触点燃了他对中国文化的丰富和复杂的迷恋。卡特的第五次也是最后一次旅行发生在1804年至1806年之间，这使他在广州呆了一年多，他显然很享受这段相对自由的时间，可以放纵自己对汉语的兴趣。根据卡特很少被研究的手稿和档案收藏，杨重建了卡特的中文研究
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Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1017/S1356186322000414
J. Bruning
Abstract Central to this article is an Arabic letter written on papyrus in an Egyptian prison in the late ninth or early tenth century ce. The author complains that he and his companions are being kept in terrible conditions and that they have received insufficient support from outside prison. Interestingly, he indicates that there is a strong inclination among the group to offer themselves as slaves in order to find relief from their crushing living conditions. By doing so, they would have transgressed Islamic law of that time, which forbade the enslavement of free inhabitants of the Realm of Islam. The letter is a unique source for the social history of slavery, especially self-enslavement, in Abbasid society. This article presents, translates, and annotates this letter and offers a detailed study of its contents.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1017/s1356186323000044
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