Historical -- Some aspects of political history : early Arsacid kings and the Seleucids / Jérôme Gaslain -- The Arsacids and Commagene / Rahim Shayegan -- Dynastic connections in the Arsacid empire and the origins of the house of Sasan / Marek Jan Olbrycht -- From terror to tactical usage : elephants in the Partho-sasanian period / Touraj Daryaee -- Remarks on the location of the province of Parthia in the Sasanian period / Mehrdad Ghodrat-Dizaji -- The birth of the Sasanian monarchy in western sources / Andrea Gariboldi -- Kirder and the re-organisation of Persian Mazdeism / Antonio Panaino -- Linguistic -- The Parthian language in early Sasanian times / Rika Gyselen -- From Aramaic to Pahlavi : epigraphic observations based on the Persis coin series / Khodadad Rezakhani -- Parthian studies : two new notes / Daryoosh Akbarzadeh -- Archaeological -- A note on architectural traditions in Arsacid Parthia : the round hall at Nisa / Antonio Invernizzi -- Women, dance and the hunt : splendour and pleasures of court life in Arsacid and early sasanian art / Barbara Kaim -- Numismatics -- Quantifying monetary production : ecbatana and media in Parthian times / Pierre-Yves Boillet -- The coinages of Paradan and Sind in the context of Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian numismatics / Nikolaus Schindel.