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Iconographic and Linguistic Interpretations of the Sasanian Clay Bullae in the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum, Mumbai (2025)
Journal Article
Hintze, A., & Moradi, Y. (2025). Iconographic and Linguistic Interpretations of the Sasanian Clay Bullae in the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum, Mumbai. Religions, 16, 1-32, 1359. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111359

This article presents the first comprehensive study of six unprovenanced Sasanian clay bullae from Iran, held at the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Mumbai. Bearing impressions from personal, official, and administrative seals, the seal impressi... Read More about Iconographic and Linguistic Interpretations of the Sasanian Clay Bullae in the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum, Mumbai.

Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān (2025)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2025). Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān. Iranian Studies, 58(1), 19-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2024.54

This article examines five Sasanian bullae from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp with seal impressions depicting Aphrodite and Eros, and Aphrodite Anadyomene, from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp. The original seal with Aphrodite and Eros likely dates... Read More about Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān.

Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran (2024)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2024). Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran. Iran and the Caucasus, 28(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02802002

This paper discusses a Sasanian sealstone discovered in 2014 at the archaeological site of Yarim Tepe in Khorasan, northeastern Iran. Although a surface find, the fact that this sealstone is provenanced is significant because this sets it apart from... Read More about Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran.

Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān (2023)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2023). Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Reflets d'époques sassanide et post-sassanide (224-760) (30, pp. 153-176). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient.

This article addresses, for the first time, seal impressions of four bullae, discovered by Yousef Moradi at the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān, showing Jewish and Christian iconography in the context of the economic and administrative activit... Read More about Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān.

A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context (2020)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2020). A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Persia, 552 BCE-758 CE : primary sources, old and new (28, pp. 111-134). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient. http://gecmo.resorientales.com/Tree/Tab_mat_Vol_28.html

The fragment of the bulla under discussion here (inv.no. 10917) is one of 824 clay bullae recovered from the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān during archaeological excavations conducted in 2002–2008 by an Iranian team under the direction of You... Read More about A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context.

The Sasanian Fire Temple of Gach Dawar in Western Iran: New Evidence (2020)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y. (2020). The Sasanian Fire Temple of Gach Dawar in Western Iran: New Evidence. Iran, 58, 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2019.1566761

In 1978 a Canadian archaeological mission conducted one season of excavation at the fire temple of Gach Dawar with the main focus of the operation on four ancillary rooms added to the exterior of the main Chahar Taq. The programme was terminated in 1... Read More about The Sasanian Fire Temple of Gach Dawar in Western Iran: New Evidence.

A Sasanian Figured Relief Plaque from Taq-e Bostan (2019)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y. (2019). A Sasanian Figured Relief Plaque from Taq-e Bostan. Parthica: Incontri di culture nel mondo antico, 21, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.19272/201903501012

The present paper brings to light a new Sasanian or Sasanian-inspired relief from Taq-e Bostan, which has been escaped from the attention of scholarly discourse for two decades now. This figured relief plaque was likely to have been applied to archit... Read More about A Sasanian Figured Relief Plaque from Taq-e Bostan.

Epigraphical and Iconographical Analysis of a Parthian Bas-relief from Javanroud, Western Iran with a Note on the Inscriptions by Seiro Haruta (2019)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y. (2019). Epigraphical and Iconographical Analysis of a Parthian Bas-relief from Javanroud, Western Iran with a Note on the Inscriptions by Seiro Haruta. Parthica: Incontri di culture nel mondo antico, 21, 153-158. https://doi.org/10.19272/201903501010

The bas-relief of Javanroud, a free-standing roughly rectangular stone, displays three standing figures performing a ceremony. The figures are dressed in Parthian fashion each with a short-sleeved tunic, and a pair of loose-fitting trousers with curv... Read More about Epigraphical and Iconographical Analysis of a Parthian Bas-relief from Javanroud, Western Iran with a Note on the Inscriptions by Seiro Haruta.

On the Sasanian Fire Temples: New Evidence from the Čahār-Tāq of Mil-e-Milagah (2016)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y. (2016). On the Sasanian Fire Temples: New Evidence from the Čahār-Tāq of Mil-e-Milagah. Parthica: Incontri di culture nel mondo antico, 18, 73-95. https://doi.org/10.19272/201603501005

The Čahār-Taq of Mil-e Milagah consists of four corner piers that had once been connected to each other by a vault, and whose inner area was roofed by a dome, which rested on squinches. The inner area of the Čahār-Taq contains a great number of insta... Read More about On the Sasanian Fire Temples: New Evidence from the Čahār-Tāq of Mil-e-Milagah.