Adrian David Hugh Bivar, Royal Asiatic Society, FRAS (abbreviated A.D.H. Bivar) (1926 - 2015) 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, Kushano-Sasanian coins and chronology, Mithraic iconography, Parthian Empire, Arsacid history and Middle Persian literature, pre-Islamic folklore.
[Encyclopaedia Iranica (2010)]
Iranian Studies in Britain, Pre-Islamic
Retrieved on 2010-04-17. His written works include book chapters written for the ''Fischer Weltgeschichte'' (vol.16, 1966) and ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' (1983).
References
External links
Bibliography of A.D.H. Bivar, in Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol.7, Iranian Studies in Honor of A.D.H. Bivar (1993), pp. 5-8Obituary in Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, Volume 44, 2006 - Issue 1
Academics of SOAS University of London
British numismatists
British archaeologists
Iranologists
Living people
Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
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