CTESIPHON (Ṭīsfūn), ancient city on the Tigris adjacent to the... #Parthian #Sasanian #Iranica
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| Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras for over eight hundred years. |
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CTESIPHON (Ṭīsfūn), ancient city on the Tigris adjacent to the Hellenistic city of Seleucia, ca. 35 km south of the later site of Baghdad. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown (for the forms, see Honigmann, cols. 1102-03; Markwart, Provincial Capitals, pp. 60-61). In the Greek sources it appears as Ktēsiphôn, in Latin Ctesiphon/Ctesifon from the Greek and T(h)esifon or Et(h)esifon, reproducing local forms. In the Aramaic Talmud (ʾ)qṭyspwn (in Syriac qṭyspwn) occurs. From Iranian texts of the Sasanian period Manichean Parthian tyspwn (or *tysfwn; Henning, pp. 943-44), Pahlavi tyspwn, and Christian Sogdian tyspwn (Sims-Williams, pp. 144, 147-49; Yoshida) are attested. In Arabic texts the name is usually Ṭaysafūn. According to Yāqūt (III, p. 570, IV, p. 446), quoting Ḥamza, the original form was Ṭūsfūn or Tūsfūn, which was arabicized as Ṭaysafūn...
Jens Kröger (born April 21, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German art historian specializing in the field of Islamic art.
Growing up in Cairo and Tehran , Kröger first studied art history and classical archeology in Hamburg after graduating from high school in 1964 and went to Berlin in 1966 , where he studied art history, Islamic studies and Near Eastern archeology . In 1978 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Sassanian stucco . From 1985 to 2007 he was curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.
- Annette Hagedorn, Avinoam Shalem (Hrsg.): Facts and Artefacts. Art in the Islamic World. Festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday. Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15782-8.
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