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Contributors to Elam and Persia 00-Elam_Persia.book Page viii Friday, December 10, 2010 4:54 PM Contributors to Elam and Persia Javier Álvarez-Mon Javier Álvarez-Mon, a native of Spain, holds degrees in art history, religion, and Near East- ern art and archaeology from the École du Louvre (Paris), the Graduate Theological Union and Jesuit School of Theology (Berkeley), and the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interest concentrates on the ancient Iranian civilizations of Elam and early Achaeme- nid Persia. As a 2003 Fulbright-Hays scholar, he compiled a digital catalogue of Elamite antiq- uities held in museums and storage units scattered throughout southwest Iran, the National Museum of Iran (Tehran), and the Louvre Museum (Paris). This catalogue comprises a large percentage of original materials, including those that are the focus of his doctoral dissertation, now published as The Arjan Tomb: At the Crossroads of the Elamite and the Persian Empires (Leu- ven, 2010). Along with the use of traditional methods of analysis, he is interested in fostering the role of modern, digital-based technologies to facilitate the study and preservation of the cultural heritage of ancient Iran. He is currently Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney (Australia). Gian Pietro Basello Gian Pietro Basello is research fellow at the Department of Asian Studies of “L’Orientale” University of Naples. He teaches Elamite civilization as adjunct professor at the University of Bologna in Ravenna. Since 2003, he has been working at the Italian and Iranian joint Project DARIOSH (Digital Achaemenid Royal Inscription Open Schema Hypertext). His primary re- search interests are the Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid sources. His research has focused also on ancient calendars and systems for counting and recording time. The address of his Web site is <www.elamit.net>. Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Carter is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Musa Sabi Term Chair of Ira- nian Studies (2009–2014) in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She began her career working on the Elamites and carried out excavations in Susa (Ex- cavations in the Ville Royale at Susa: The Third Millennium b.c. Occupation; Cahiers de la déléga- tion archéologique française en Iran 11; Paris, 1980) and Anshan (Malyan) (Excavations at Tal-e Malyan, Iran: The Middle Elamite Period; University Museum Monograph no. 75; Philadelphia, 1996). She maintains an active research interest in the social and cultural history of Elam (Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology; University of California Near Eastern Studies Series 24; Berkeley, 1984, with Matthew W. Stolper) although her fieldwork has been in southeastern Turkey since 1989. The paper in Elam and Persia stems from an interest in the archaeology of death in the Ancient Near East. viii 00-Elam_Persia.book Page ix Friday, December 10, 2010 4:54 PM Contributors to Elam and Persia ix Enrique Quintana Cifuentes Enrique Quintana Cifuentes is Letrado de la Administración del Estado y Adjunto de los Servicios jurídicos del Estado en Murcia (Spain). His academic background allowed him to specialize in the study of Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, and Egyptian languages. He is a mem- ber of the Spanish Oriental Association, the Spanish Egyptology Association, and a regular col- laborator with the Instituto del Próximo Oriente (IPOA) at the University of Murcia. One of his primary interests is the advancement of the study of Elamite culture and language. In addi- tion to directing the website of the IPOA, dedicated to the dissemination of textual documen- tation of Elam, he is the author of numerous publications, in particular, two volumes in the collection Estudios Orientales published by the University of Murcia: Historia de Elam: El vecino mesopotámico (no. 1); Textos y fuentes para el estudio de Elam (no. 4). In the same series, two works are currently in press: La lengua elamita: Introducción a las lenguas muertas del Próximo Oriente An- tiguo; Historia General de Mesopotamia. Mark B. Garrison Mark B. Garrison is the Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor in Art History in the De- partment of Art and Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His primary re- search interests are the glyptic arts of ancient Iran and Iraq in the first millennium b.c. He specializes in the glyptic preserved on two large archives from Persepolis—the Persepolis For- tification tablets and the Persepolis Treasury tablets. With Margaret Cool Root, he is author of Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter (Oriental Institute Publications 117; Chicago, 2001). In addition to the documentary work represented in that publication, his research has focused on social aspects of glyptic production in workshops in Persepolis, especially the issues surrounding the impact of individuals of high status and/or ad- ministrative rank on the development of glyptic style and iconography in the early Achaemenid period. His work has also addressed the emergence and development of royal ideology in glyp- tic at Persepolis, religious imagery in Achaemenid art, and the relationship of glyptic of the early Achaemenid period with earlier glyptic traditions in Elam and Mesopotamia. Yousef Hassanzadeh Yousef Hassanzadeh is a researcher in the History Department at the National Museum of Iran. He holds a B.A. in Archaeology from Tehran University. His research interests concen- trate on the social and artistic developments in northwestern Iran during the early first millen- nium b.c. He is particularly interested in the study of the little-known Mannaean culture within the larger political and artistic contexts of the Elamite, Median, Urartian, and Assyrian civilizations. His most recent publications deal with the study of the Mannaean glazed brick- work found in Qalaichi (Boukan) and presently housed at the National Museum of Iran. 00-Elam_Persia.book Page x Friday, December 10, 2010 4:54 PM x Contributors to Elam and Persia Wouter F. M. Henkelman Wouter F. M. Henkelman was trained in Classical Philology at Leiden and in History and Culture of the Achaemenid Empire at Utrecht. He received his doctoral decree (cum laude) in 2006 from the University of Leiden. A revised and expanded version of his doctoral thesis, The Other Gods Who Are: Studies in Iranian-Elamite Acculturation Based on the Persepolis Fortification Texts, was published in 2008 (Achaemenid History 14). He is currently working as researcher and associate lecturer at the Free University of Amsterdam and teaches Achaemenid Elamite at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He is also co-director of the websites achemenet.com and Musée achéménide. His primary research interests are the Elamite Persepolis Fortification texts, on which he has written a series of articles dealing with subjects ranging from the royal table to the status of foreign workers. A recurrent theme in these and other studies is the Elam- ite background of some Achaemenid institutions and traditions. He is currently preparing for publication a corpus of nearly 3,000 Elamite Fortification texts (with translations, commentary, and lexicon) on behalf of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and a new edition of the Elamite version of the Bisotun inscription of Darius the Great. Hekmatolah Mollasalehi Hekmatolah Mollasalehi is assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology at the Uni- versity of Tehran (Iran). His primary research interests are the archaeology of religion and the epistemology of archaeology. Professor Mollasalehi is the author of more than a hundred arti- cles dealing with multiple theoretical issues concerning the science of archaeology. He has pub- lished two books regarding the epistemology of archaeology and the various roles played by museums as phenomena of modern culture. H. Mollasalehi is chief editor of the Journal of Archaeology. D. T. Potts D. T. Potts is the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the Uni- versity of Sydney, Australia. He is interested broadly in the archaeology and early history of Iran, the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, and Central Asia. His pub- lications include Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations (Cornell, 1997), The Ar- chaeology of Elam (Cambridge, 1999), Excavations at Tepe Yahya 1967–1975: The Third Millen- nium (Cambridge, MA, 2001), and edited volumes, including: Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates, with H. Al Naboodah and P. Hellyer (Trident, 2003); The Mamasani Archaeological Project, Stage One: A Report on the First Two Seasons of the ICAR–University of Sydney Expedition to the Mamasani District, Fars Province, Iran, with K. Roustaei (Tehran, 2006); and Memory as History: The Legacy of Alexander in Asia, with H.P. Ray (New Delhi, 2007). Margaret Cool Root Margaret Cool Root is Professor of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of the History of Art and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Ar- 00-Elam_Persia.book Page xi Friday, December 10, 2010 4:54 PM Contributors to Elam and Persia xi chaeology at the University of Michigan. She is also Curator of Ancient Near Eastern and Greek Antiquities for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Her first book, The King and King- ship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (Leiden, 1979), began a career that strives on many fronts to enhance our understanding of the significance and path- ways of the visual as a historical source in the study of empire and power construction. Current work continues to engage with the official visual traditions of the Achaemenids—their intricate dialogues with usable pasts of earlier Near Eastern and Egyptian cultures as well as their dia- logues with Athenian culture of the Classical age. At the same time, her Persepolis Seal Project (now in collaboration for many years with Mark B. Garrison) urges the potentials of archival seal study to nuanced approaches to a true social history of art in the Achaemenid empire that may reach well below levels of officialdom.
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