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The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary (2023)
Thesis
Grassi, C. The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive study of chapter 56 and 57 of the Yasna, a text known as Srōš Yašt, that is the Avestan hymn dedicated to the god Sraōša. The thesis includes a new critical edition of the text, based on 31 liturgi... Read More about The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary.

A Sasanian silver bowl (2009)
Book Chapter
De Blois, F. (2009). A Sasanian silver bowl. In W. Sundermann, & N. Sims-Williams (Eds.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (13-16). Harrassowitz

Theodore bar Koni’s Historical and Cosmogonic passages on the Manichaeans (2006)
Book Chapter
Hunter, E. C. D. (2006). Theodore bar Koni’s Historical and Cosmogonic passages on the Manichaeans. In F. De Blois, & N. Sims-Williams (Eds.), Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol.II. From Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Brepols

Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples (2002)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2002). N. Sims-Williams (Ed.). Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262856.001.0001

The recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed in this book by a group of linguists and archaeologists. In the last few years, the materials available for the stu... Read More about Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples.

Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions (2002)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2002). Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions. In N. Sims-Williams (Ed.), Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples (225-242). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262856.003.0011

During the last ten years the corpus of Bactrian texts has increased dramatically. The dates of the Bactrian documents range from 342 to 781 a.d., a span of more than four centuries extending through the Kushano-Sasanian, Kidarite, Hephthalite, and T... Read More about Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions.

Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and the Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 2, Parthian economic documents from Nisa, Texts I, (2001)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2001). I. M. Diakonoff, V. A. Livshits, D. N. MacKenzie, A. N. Bader, & N. Sims-Williams (Eds.). Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and the Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 2, Parthian economic documents from Nisa, Texts I,. SOAS University of London