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Nota introduttiva sul tema della identità iranica / Gherardo Gnoli -- Preliminary notes on the collection of Sasanian bullae held in Khoy / Darioosh Akbarzadeh, Carlo G. Cereti and Fabrizio Sinisi -- Su alcuni aspetti della storia del neopersiano : nascita ed evoluzione della diglossia / Luca Alfieri e Chiara Barbati -- Legal implications of conversion in Zoroastrianism / Alberto Cantera -- The wise men at Alexander's Court in Persian medieval romances : an Iranian view of ancient cultural heritage / Mario Casari -- Uruk and Aratta (between pre-eminence and friendship) / Franco D'Agostino -- The idea of Ērānšahr : Jewish, Christian and Manichaean views in late antiquity / Touraj Daryaee -- Iranian Identities / Bert G. Fragner -- The Western Scythian identity : a territorial and archaeological "puzzle" / Bruno Genito -- La société iranienne du 7e siecle AD d'apres la collection de Berkeley / Philippe Gignoux -- Iranian word play in the scroll of Esther / Thamar E. Gindin -- Les inscriptions persanes dans I'epigraphie monumentale de la ville de Ghazni (Afghanistan) aux 6e-7e/12e-13e siecle / Roberta Giunta -- Sceaux sassanides : abreviations et identités / Rika Gyselen, avec la collaboration de François Thierry -- Legal constructions of identity in the Sasanian period / Maria Macuch -- Shiraz eternelle / M.I. Mochiri -- The "Persian" identity in religious controversies : again on the case of the "divided loyalty" in Sasanian Iran / Antonio C.D. Panaino -- Sanʻatizâde's Dāmgostārān and Majmaʻ-e Divānegān : a new identity in the horizon? / Claus V. Pedersen -- The medieval Armenian perception of transiency of earthly gardens and its Persian parallels / Hamlet Petrosyan -- Mythology as a mean of identity in Sasanian royal imagery / Andrea Piras -- Spuren iranischer Identität in Firdausīs Šāhnāme / Nosratollah Rastegar -- Elusive identities in pre-Achaemenid Iran : the Medes and the Median language / Adriano V. Rossi -- Human identity and classes of people in the Pahlavi books / Shaul Shaked -- The Pahlavi script as a medium of Iranian identity : some palaeographical notes / Dieter Weber

Abstract
This paper focuses on the worship of Anāhitā in Western Asia examining some of the ideas put forward by James R. Russel in his volume on Zoroastrianism in Armenia in the light of more recent discussions about the role played by the goddess in Armenian religion before the conversion of the country to Christianity. While the evidence from more ancient periods has also been briefly presented, specific attention is given to Anāhīd's worship in the Sasanian period and to the devotion of Narseh to this divinity. Finally, Middle Persian personal names containing the theonym Anāhīd are briefly introduced and discussed, showing that this important divinity is underrepresented in Sasanian and post-Sasanian onomastics.