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PROF Almut Hintze's Outputs (4)

The Pahlavi Psalter in its Historical Context (2024)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2024). The Pahlavi Psalter in its Historical Context. In M. Macuch, & A. Zeini (Eds.), Deciphering the Illegible: Festschrift in Honour of Dieter Weber (175-201). Harrassowitz

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.

An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10 (2024)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2024). An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10. In A. Cantera, É. V. Pirart, & C. Redard (Eds.), at̰ hōi aōjī zaraϑuštrō paōuruuīm ¿Habló Zaraϑuštra? Homenaje a Jean Kellens en su 80º anniversario (125-135). Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios

This article discusses various proposal for analysing the enigmatic form auuǝ̄mīrā, which constitutes the last word of the Gathic stanza Yasna 49.10. It is then proposed that the word is best understood as *a-u̯i-mī-ra- ‘undiminishing’. Being a compo... Read More about An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10.

The Conclusion of the Ritual: A Critical Edition of Yasna 62–72 with Linguistic and Ritual Commentary (2024)
Thesis
Damanins, S. The Conclusion of the Ritual: A Critical Edition of Yasna 62–72 with Linguistic and Ritual Commentary. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Written as part of my collaboration at the ERC-funded “The Multimedia Yasna” (MUYA) project, this thesis is concerned with the final ten chapters 62–72 of the Zoroastrian ritual known as Yasna. The work comprises a discussion of the methodology emplo... Read More about The Conclusion of the Ritual: A Critical Edition of Yasna 62–72 with Linguistic and Ritual Commentary.