Iran. Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Volume XL, 2002.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kleiss, langj�igem Leiter der Au�nstelle Teheran des Deutschen Arch�ogischen Instituts. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Stone Tool Production, Distribution and Use during the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic on the Tehran Plain, Iran, by H. Fazeli, R.E. Donahue and R. A.E. Coningham -- The Ancient Merv Project, Turkmenistan. Preliminary Report on the First Season (2001), by Tim Williams, Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov, et al. -- Tuwah Khoshkeh: A Middle Chalcolithic Mobile Pastoralist Camp-Site in the Islamabad Plain, West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran, by Kamyar Abdi, Gabriel Nikandeh, Ali Azadi, Fereydoun Biglari, Saman Heydari, Dariush Farmani, Akbar Rezaii and Marjan Mashkour -- The Fortification and Palace of Northern Gonur, by V. Sarianidi -- The Ethno-linguistic Character of Northwestern Iran and Kurdistan in the Neo-Assyrian Period, by Ran Zadok -- Sasanian Pottery in Southern Iran and Eastern Arabia, by Derek Kennet -- Paper and Metal: The Irony that Ensues: the Coinage of Mas'ud of Ghazna (421-31/1030-40), by Soheila Amirsoleimani -- A Note on a Unique Islamic Golden Figurine, by Avinoam Shalem -- Reconsidering the Life of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1641): Notes towards an Intellectual Biography, by Sajjad H. Rizvi -- Legations and Gardens and their Subalterns, by John Gurney -- The Poet-Laureate Bahar in the Constitutional Era, by Homa Katouzian -- The Early Iranian Stone "Weights" and an Unpublished Sumerian Foundation Deposit, by Julian Reade -- Safavid Blue and White Bowls and the Chinese Connection, by Yolande Crowe -- SHORTER NOTICES: The Williamson Collection Project: Sasanian and Islamic Pottery from Southern Iran, by Seth M.N. Priestman and Derek Kennet -- Again about Appanage Rulers of Nasrabad, by Michael Fedorov -- The Second Helmeted Head from Old Nisa, by V.N. Pilipko -- Recent Post-Achaemenid Finds from Southern Fars, Iran, by Ali-Reza Asgari Chaverdi -- Pasargadae, by R� Boucharlat and Christophe Benech.