Adrian David Hugh Bivar, FRAS (abbreviated A.D.H. Bivar) (1926 - 2015) was a British

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

and archaeologist, who was

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Professor of

Iranian Studies Iranian studies ( '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of the wider field ...

at the

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. He specialized in

Sasanian The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranians"), was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, the length of the Sasanian dynasty's reign ...

seals and

rock relief A rock relief or rock-cut relief is a relief, relief sculpture carved on solid or "living rock" such as a cliff, rather than a detached piece of stone. They are a category of rock art, and sometimes found as part of, or in conjunction ...

s, Kushano-Sasanian coins and chronology,

Mithra Mithra ( ; ) is an ancient Iranian deity ('' yazata'') of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, contracts, and friendship. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth ( ...

ic iconography, Arsacid history and 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. 5-8

Obituary 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 British Iranologists Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-archaeologist-stub