David Fleming
BA in the Archaeology of Western Asia (Mesopotamia), U London, Institute of Archaeology (1976); MA with Distinction in the Archaeology of Iran, U London, School of Oriental and African Studies (1977); DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) in Oriental Studies with a dissertation on Iranian archaeology, U Oxford, Corpus Christi College (1982); MBA Cornell U, Johnson Graduate School of Management (1987). Has excavated in Britain, Bermuda, Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Peru. Has worked in international financial institutions in New York since 1987.
Supervisors: BA, Professor David Oates; MA, Professor ADH Bivar; DPhil, Dr PRS Moorey.
Supervisors: BA, Professor David Oates; MA, Professor ADH Bivar; DPhil, Dr PRS Moorey.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Oriental Studies for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Oxford
D.C.G. Fleming
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Trinity term, 1982
This dissertation studies the pottery produce on the Iranian plateau and neighbouring regions in the period of the political domination of western Asia by the Achaemenid Persian empire, and considers whether there were any unified pottery usages in that period that could be attributed to Achaemenid influence. Chapter 1 sets the geographical and chronological scene, and explains the theory and the methods used. Chapter 2 examines the ceramic background in the Iron Age III Zagros Mountains. Chapter 3 considers the pottery of the Achaemenid/Iron Age IV of the Iranian plateau. Chapter 4 compares this to the pottery produced at the same time in southern Mesopotamia. Chapter 5 contains a detailed discussion of appropriate ceramics from Afghanistan, Swat, and the Upper Indus. Chapter 6 concludes that there was no single unified pottery style that could be associated with the spread of the Achaemenid empire in western Asia, and also that the distribution of pottery in the eastern Achaemenid empire bore no relation to the spatial arrangement of the empire’s provinces. Previously unpublished pottery from southern Mesopotamia, Kandahar, and sites in Swat is included.
Originally published as “Arithmétique,” Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:673–675 (Paris, 1751).