Table of Contents

i-vi — PREFACE — TABLE OF CONTENTS — NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION — LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND BRIEF CITATIONS — LIST OF MAPS — LIST OF TABLES — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — INTRODUCTION — PART I. THE LITERARY SOURCES — 1. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS — 2. CHRONOLOGY — 3. RELIGION AND THE SARBAD?RS — PART II. THE NUMISMATIC SOURCE — 4. THE EPIGRAPHIC REMAINS; DESCRIPTION — 5. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION — PART III. A HISTORY OF THE SARBAD?R DYNASTY — 6. BACKGROUND — 7. THE EARLY PERIOD — 8. THE MIDDLE PERIOD — 9. THE LATE PERIOD — PART IV. ASPECTS OF THE SARBAD?R PERIOD — 10. GEOGRAPHY — 11. PHILOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS — APPENDIX — BIBLIOGRAPHY — INDEX