Morteza Djamali, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Silvia Balatti, Frédéric Guibal, Coralie Santelli. “On the chronology and use of timber in the palaces and palace-like structures of the Sasanian Empire in Persis (SW Iran)”

Many Sasanian monuments and buildings have only general chronology and therefore it is not clear at the reign of which king a building was constructed or used. Furthermore, many of the diagnostic monuments have been dated to the late Sasanian- early Islamic era because of the existence of architectural elements known in the Islamic period. This important paper provides new chronology through the AMS Radiocarbon dating results of five timber fragments (cypress wood) which were used in the cons..