Giulio Maresca. “Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-Western Iran during the Sasanian Period: some Archaeological Remarks”

Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and their function in the facilitation of irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific Sasanian administrative centralisation. The author stresses the continuity of investments in infrastructures, from the Arsacids to the Islamic period via the Sasanians. It is presented that members of elite governing classes as well as private entrepreneurs provided these investments – as hinted by the inscrip..