Bam is situated in a desert environment on the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau. The origins of Bam can be traced back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries BC). Its heyday was from ...

covering four important monarchies of this period (the Ptolemies, Hiero's Syracusan kingdom, the Seleucids, and the Pontic kingdom). The approaches of the papers draw on a variety of papyrological, ...