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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adrian David Hugh Bivar, FRAS was a British numismatist and archaeologist, who was Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialized in Sasanian seals and rock reliefs, Kushanoo-Sasanian coins and chronology, Mithraic iconography, Arsacid history and pre-Islamic folklore. His written works include book chapters written for the Fischer Weltgeschichte and The Cambridge History of Iran .
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- A Hoard of Ingot-Currency of the Median Period from Nūsh-i Jān, near Malayir (1971) (100)
- The Arabic Literature of Nigeria to 1804: a Provisional Account (1962) (92)
- THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRAN UNDER THE ARSACIDS (1983) (75)
- Cavalry equipment and tactics on the Euphrates frontier (1972) (45)
- Old Kanuri Capitals (1962) (41)
- The Kaniṣka Dating From Surkh Kotal (1963) (37)
- The sequence of Menander's drachmae (1970) (33)
- The Wathīqat Ahl Al-Sūdān: a Manifesto of the Fulani Jihād (1961) (32)
- Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Stamp Seals. II: The Sassanian Dynasty (1970) (23)
- A Rosette Phialē Inscribed in Aramaic (1961) (18)
- The Death of Eucratides in Medieval Tradition (1950) (15)
- Arabic Documents Of Northern Nigeria (1959) (13)
- The personalities of Mithra in archaeology and literature (2000) (12)
- THE HISTORY OF EASTERN IRAN (1983) (9)
- Hariti and the chronology of the Kusanas. (1970) (8)
- Survey of Excavations in Iran, 1969-70 (1969) (6)
- The Walls of Tammīs̱ẖa (1966) (5)
- A Parthian amulet (1967) (5)
- The inscriptions at Shīmbār (1964) (5)
- Lyonnesse: The Evolution of a Fable (1953) (5)
- Excavations at Ghubayrā, 1971: First Interim Report (1974) (5)
- Mithraism : A religion for the ancient medes (2005) (4)
- MITHRAIC IMAGES OF BACTRIA: ARE THEY RELATED TO ROMAN MITHRAISM? (1979) (4)
- History of civilization of central Asia. Vol. I: Earliest times to 700 BC: Edited by A.H. Dani and V.M. Masson. pp. 535. UNESCO, Paris, 1994. FF200. ISBN 92 3 1027190 (1995) (4)
- An encyclopaedia of Indian archaeology. Vol. I. Subjects. Vol. II. Gazetteer of explored and excavated sites in India . Edited by A. Ghosh. pp. xvi, 413 56 figs.; 470, 15 figs. Leiden, etc., E.J. Brill, 1990. Dlf. 400, US $228.57 (1992) (4)
- The Sassanian Dynasty (1969) (3)
- Central Asian Textiles and Their Contexts in the Early Middle Ages (2006) (3)
- The First Parthian Ostracon from Iran (1970) (3)
- Tree Rings for Kanishka (1989) (2)
- Seljūqid Ziyārats of Sar-i pul (Afghanistan) (1966) (2)
- Appendix: The Sasanian coin from Qūmis (1970) (2)
- The Second Parthian Ostracon from Qūmis (Qūmis Commentaries No. 3) (1981) (2)
- Nigerian panoply : arms and armour of the Northern region (1964) (2)
- Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th–18th Centuries. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue . By Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani. pp. 445. London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1982. £60. (1984) (2)
- Mesopotamia and Iran in the Parthian and Sasanian Periods: Rejection and Revival c. 238 B.C. – A.D. 642. Edited by John Curtis. pp. 104, illus. London, British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 2000. (2001) (2)
- Seal-Impressions of Parthian Qūmis (Qūmis Commentaries no. 4) (1982) (2)
- The Stevensweert Kantharos: Its Metrology and Eastern Connexions (1964) (2)
- Zar-Dheri: An Unrecorded Gandhara Stupa and a Possible Provenance (1996) (1)
- PH. Gignoux (ed.) Transition periods in Iranian history: Actes du Symposium de Fribourg-en-Brisgau (22–24 Mai 1985) . (Studia ranica, Cahier 5.) 263 pp. Leuven: E. Peeters, 1987. (1989) (1)
- A current position on some central and South Asian chronologies (2000) (1)
- Papers on the date of Kaniṣka . Edited by A. L. Basham. (Australian National University Centre of Oriental Studies, Oriental Monograph Series, Vol. IV.) pp. xiv, 478, 6 pl., 1 folding chart. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1968. (1971) (1)
- The inscription of Sālār Khalīl in Afghanistan (1977) (1)
- Babylon or Persis (1998) (1)
- An Iranian Sarapis (1988) (1)
- The Quranic art of calligraphy and illumination . By Martin Lings. pp. 241, 114 pl. [London], World of Islam Festival Trust, 1976. £20. (1979) (1)
- David Stronach: Pasargadae: a report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. xiv, 326 pp., 192 pl. and 8 foldout diagrams. Oxford: Clarendon press, [1978] £25. (1979) (1)
- The role of allegory in the Persian Epic (2000) (1)
- 'Fire-altar' subjects in the art of Gandhara (2005) (1)
- South Asia (1999) (1)
- The Indus Lands (1988) (1)
- Michael H. Dodgeon and Samuel N. C. Lieu: The Roman eastern frontìer and the Persian Wars A.D. 226–363: a documentary history . xxviii, 430 pp. London and New York: Routledge, [1992]. £50. (1994) (1)
- The Saljūq sign-manual represented on a sgraffiato potsherd (1979) (1)
- Rarotongan Sentence Structures (1963) (1)
- Fire-Altars of the Sassanian Period at Balkh (1954) (1)
- The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in Transition . By Thomas J. Barfield. pp. xxii, 182. Austin, University of Texas Press, [1981]. £14.60. (1983) (1)
- Parthian ostraca from the Syrian Jazira (1996) (1)
- Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World . By Antony Welch, pp. 216. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1979. (1979) (1)
- D. A. Ol'derogge (ed.): Strany i narody Vostoka. Vyp. x. Srednyaya i tsentral'naya Aziya: geografiya, étnografiya, istoriya . (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Geograficheskoye Obshchestvo SSSR. Vostochnaya Komissiya.) 292 pp. + errata sheet. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1971. Rbls. 1.80. (1972) (0)
- The Ancient World (1999) (0)
- Carl Nylander: lonians in Pasargadae: studies in Old Persian architecture. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations, 1.) 176 pp. Uppsala: [Uppsala Universitet], 1970. (Distributors: Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm. Sw. kr. 54.) (1973) (0)
- ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ. A Noteworthy Use for a Persian Gold Phiale (1999) (0)
- The President's Speech Awarding the Denis Sinor Medal for Inner Asian Studies to Sir Harold Bailey (1994) (0)
- Ann Perkins: The art of Dura-Europos . xiii, 130 pp., 32 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. £7.50. (1974) (0)
- Siraf xv: the coins and monumental inscriptions . By Nicholas M. Lowick. pp. vi, 117, 30 pl., 1 map. London, The British Institute of Persian Studies, 1985. (1987) (0)
- Yasin Hamid Safadi: Islamic calligraphy . 144 pp. [London]: Thames and Hudson, 1978. £3.95. (1979) (0)
- Kenneth M. Mackenzie and Samuel Lachman: Countermarks of the Ottoman empire, 1880–1922 . 56 pp. Sanderstead: Hawkins Publications, [ c 1974]. (Distributed by B. A. Seaby Ltd., London, W.1. £4.50.) (1976) (0)
- Persian inscriptions down to the early Safavid period (1977) (0)
- The Kuṣāṇa Trilingual (1976) (0)
- Gordon Whitteridge: Charles Masson of Afghanistan: explorer, archaeologist, numismatist and intelligence agent , x, 181pp. + errata slip. Warminster, Wiltshire: Aris and Philips, 1986. £18. (1988) (0)
- Annual report of the Department of Archaeology, Gujarat State: 1971–2 . pp. 16, 21 pls. Ahmadabad, Director of Government Printing and Stationery, Gujarat State, [1973?]. Rs. 2.15. (1975) (0)
- Jeffrey D. Lerner: The impact of Seleucid decline on the eastern Iranian plateau: the foundations of Arsacid Parthia and Graeco-Bactria . (Historia Einzelschriften 123.) 139 pp., 2 plates Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. DM68. (2000) (0)
- Malcolm A. R. Colledge, The Parthians (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. LIX.) London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. Pp. 243, 76 photos and 48 text-figures. 42s. (1969) (0)
- Monuments of Central Asia: A guide to the Archaeology, Art and Architecture of Turkestan . By Edgar Knobloch. pp. x, 246, 97 illus, 28 in colour, on numerous plates. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 2001. (2002) (0)
- Manūchihrī's Māzandarān ode: an English version (1990) (0)
- An historial geography of Iran . By W. Barthold, translated by Svat Soucek, edited with and introduction by C. E. Bosworth. (Modern Classics in Near Eastern Studies.) pp. xv, 286, 2 maps. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £34.70. (1986) (0)
- P. H. L. Eggermont: Alexander's campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan and the siege of the Brahmin town of Harmatelia . (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 3.) xxiv, 233 pp. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1975. Bel. fr. 850. (1977) (0)
- An Anthropologist's History (1961) (0)
- Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encylopaedia Iranica. Vol, I, Fascicle I : ĀB–'ABD-AL-ḤAMĪD. 112 PP. London,etc.: Routledge and Kehan Paul, [1982]. £18. (1984) (0)
- Coins, art and chronology: essays on the pre-Islamic history of the Indo–Iranian border-lands . Edited by Michael Alram and Deborah E. Salter. pp. viii, 498. Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissensachaften, 1999. (2000) (0)
- John Curtis: Nush'i Jan III: the small finds . vii, 71 pp., 23 figs., 14 plates. London: British Institute of Persian Studies, 1984. £12. (1986) (0)
- Naghar and Īryāb: Two Little-Known Islamic Sites of the North-West Frontier of Afghanistan and Pakistan (1986) (0)
- Heidemarie Koch: A hoard of coins from eastern Parthia . (American Numismatic Society: Numismatic Notes and Monographs, no. 165.) x, 64 pp., 12 plates. New York: American Numismatic Society; Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990. $35. (1992) (0)
- Edgar Knobloch: Beyond the Oxus: archaeology, art and architecture of Central Asia. 256 pp. London: Ernest Benn Ltd.; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. £2.90. (1973) (0)
- Professor Sir Harold Bailey, FBA (1996) (0)
- Tamara Talbot Rice: Ancient arts of Central Asia . (The World of Art Library. History of Art.) 288 pp. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. 35s. (1966) (0)
- Monogram counts from the Kabul collection (1992) (0)
- Recent archaeological discoveries in India . By B. K. Thapar. pp. xiv, 159, 12 pl. 7 maps + errata slip. Paris and Tokyo, UNESCO and Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, The Toyo Bunko, 1985. FFr 110, ¥2,500 or $17.50. (1988) (0)
- H. Heras: HERAS: Indological studies. Edited by Bernard Anderson and John Correia-Afonso, S. J . xiv, 207 pp., front New Delhi: Promilla and Co. [and] the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, 1990. Rs. 250.00. (1991) (0)
- The Ancient World (1997) (0)
- The art of Afghanistan . By Jeannine Auboyer. Photographs by Dominique Darbois. Translated by Peter Kneebone. pp. 72, 140 pl., map. Feltham, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1968. 50s. (1969) (0)
- W. E. Begley: Monumental Islamic calligraphy from India. 144 pp. Villa Park, Illinois: Islamic Foundation, 1985. (Distributed by University of Washington Press, $17.85, paper $10.95.) (1988) (0)
- Studies on Roman and Islamic ' Amman : excavations of Mrs C (1995) (0)
- The Gandhara style and the evolution of Buddhist Art . By Madeline Hallade, translated by Diana Imber. pp. xvi, 266, 203 pl. (24 in colour), 5 figs., maps. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968. £9 9s. (1969) (0)
- Bhaskar Chattopadhyay: The age of the Kushāṇas—a numismatic study . xxxiii, 289 pp., 5 plates. Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1967. Rs. 48. (1969) (0)
- André Godard: The art of Iran. Translated from the French by Michael Heron, edited by Michael Rogers . 358 pp., 166 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1965. 84s. (1966) (0)
- Islam in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fifth International African Seminar, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, January 1964. (1967) (0)
- Ludvik Kalus: Catalogue des cachets, bulles et talismanes islamiques. xv, 109 pp., 16 Plates. Paris: Bibliothque Nationale, 1981. (1982) (0)
- Ahmad Hasan Dani: Peshawar, historic city of the Frontier . [vi], v, 253 pp., 29 plates, 3 maps. Peshawar: Khyber Mail Press, 1969. Rs. 15. (1972) (0)
- George C. Miles: The coinage of the Arab Amirs of Crete . (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 160.) x, 87 pp., 9 plates. New York: American Numismatic Society, 1970. (1972) (0)
- Ahmad Hasan Dani: The historic city of Taxila . xvi, 190 pp., 40 pi. Paris: UNESCO; Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultur l Studies, Toyo Bunko, 1986. (1989) (0)
- B. N. Mukherjee: Nanā on lion: a study in Kushāṇa numismatic art . xv, 159 pp., 15 plates. Calcutta: Asiatic Society, [ C 1969]. Rs. 35. (1971) (0)
- Iranica Antiqua , Volumen I. Sous la Direction de R. Ghirshman and L. Vanden Berghe. pp. 204 + 38 plates + 3 maps. E. J. Brill, Leyden. 1961. 35 guilders. (1963) (0)
- Robert Elgood(ed.): Islamic arms and armour , xii, 252 pp. London: Scolar Press, 1979. £75. (1981) (0)
- The Miller of Manhanīq (1995) (0)
- Āpapāta (Qūmis commentaries no. 2) (1972) (0)
- Seton Lloyd (ed.): The art of the ancient Near East . 303 pp. [London]: Thames and Hudson, [1961]. 30s. (1962) (0)
- Ahmad Muhammad 'Al Al-Hkim: al-Zakhrif al-mi'mriyya wa-tatawwuruha fmantaqat Wd Haif: jnib hadth min al-fann al-Nb. (University of Khartoum. Sudan Unit. Occasional Papers, No. 1.) iv, 43, i pp., 28 plates. Khartoum: University of Khartoum, 1965. (1967) (0)
- Dr John Dennis Duncanson, O.B.E. (1998) (0)
- Karin Bartl and Stefan R. Hauser (ed).: Continuity and change in northern Mesopotamia from the Hellenistic to the early Islamic Period (Berliner Beiträge zum Vordern Orient, Bd. 17.) xi, 452 pp., 8 plates. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1996. DM 79. (1998) (0)
- Mediaeval Muslim Horsemanship: A Fourteenth-Century Arabic Cavalry Manual . By G. Rex Smith, pp. 36. London, British Library Board, 1979. Price £1.50. (1979) (0)
- S. K. Maity: Early Indian coins and currency system , xii, 136 pp. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1970. Rs. 20. (1973) (0)
- Malcolm A. R. Colledge: Parthian art . (Elek Archaeology and Anthropology.) xvi, 200 pp., 32 plates. London: Paul Elek, 1977. £12.50. (1978) (0)
- Studies in Indian History and Civilization. By Budiha Prakash. pp. 444. Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. (P.) Ltd. Agra, 1962. Rs. 15. (1964) (0)
- Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Part III, Pahlavi Inscriptions, Vol. VI: Seals and Coins, Portfolio 1, Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian Seals and Kushano-Sasanian Coins: Sasanian Seals in the British Museum (1968) (0)
- Denis Sinor Gold Medal for Inner Asian Studies (1993) (0)
- Guitty Azarpay: Sogdian painting: the pictorial epic in Oriental art. xxii, 212 pp., 30 Plates. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1981. £40, $75. (1983) (0)
- N. N. Ambraseys and C. F. Finkel: The seismicity of Turkey and adjacent areas: a historical review , 1500–1800. pp. 240. Istanbul: Eren, 1995. (1998) (0)
- John E. Mitchinee: Studies in the Indus Valley inscriptions , x, 86 pp. New Delhi, etc.: Mohan Primlani, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., 1978. Rs. 60. (1980) (0)
- The Portraits and career of Mohammed Ali, son of Kazem-Beg: Scottish missionaries and Russian orientalism (1994) (0)
- Serge Veuve: Fouilles d' Aï Khanoum. VI. Le gymnase: architecture, céramique, sculpture, xvi, 127 pp., Pl. 53 and XIII large plans in end-pocket. Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 1987. (1990) (0)
- South Asia (1999) (0)
- Erich F. Schmidt: Persepolis. III. The royal tombs and other monuments . (University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. LXX.) xxiv, 174 pp., front., 116 plates, map. ” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. $75, £33.75. (1973) (0)
- David Dichter and Nathan S. Popkin: The North-West Frontier of West Pakistan: a study in regional geography. xii, 231 pp., 21 plates. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1967. 63s. (1968) (0)
- Christopher J. Brunner: Sasanian stamp seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . 149 pp. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. (1980) (0)
- John Curtis: Ancient Persia , pp. 72. London: British Museum Publications, 1989. £4.95. (1991) (0)
- Ariel Berman: Islamic coins: exhibition winter 1976 . 155 pp. Jerusalem: L. A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, [1976]. (1978) (0)
- Occurrence of Tho Whooper Swan (Cygnus Cygnus (Linn.)) and Greater European Bustard (Otis Tank Linn.) in Tho Punjab (1947) (0)
- The Inscriptions of Uruzgan (1954) (0)
- Benjamin Rowland and Frances Mortimer Rice: Art in Afghanistan: objects from the Kabul Museum, [xi], 93 pp., 191 plates. London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1971. £10. (1973) (0)
- Ernst Herzfeld: The Persian Empire: studies in geography and ethnography of the ancient Near East. Edited from the posthumous papers by Gerold Walser . xxiii, 392 pp., map. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1968. DM 100. (1971) (0)
- Richard N. Frye: The heritage of Persia . (The Weidenfeld and Nicolson History of Civilisation.) xvii, 317 pp., 64 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1963]. 50s. (1964) (0)
- Sylvia A. Matheson: Persia: an archaeological guide . (Archaeological Guides.) 330 pp., 24 plates. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. £6.50 (cloth), £2.50 (paper). (1974) (0)
- Mortimer Wheeler: Flames over persepolis: turning-point in history.180 pp. London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1968] 55s. (1969) (0)
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta : Volume V: Index (2017) (0)
- Ashkaya Kumar Maitreya Museum. Catalogue, Part I . (sculptures, terra cotta objects, paintings, folk arts, coins etc.). pp. x, 82, 4 pl. Darjeeling, West Bengal, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohanpur, 1981. Rs 7.50 (£1.00 or $2.00). (1985) (0)
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