Selected Publication on Achaemenid Studies

Root 1979  The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art:  Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of

Empire. Acta  Iranica 19. Leiden:  Brill.  

Root 1994  The Persian Empire:  Continuity and Change. Achaemenid History 8. Co-editor with A. Kuhrt and H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg. Leiden:  Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.

Root 2001 Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets: A Catalog in Three Volumes.  Volume I.  Images of Heroic  Encounter. Co-author with M. B. Garrison.  Oriental Institute Publications 117. Chicago: Oriental Institute.  

Root 2002 Medes and Persians.  Reflections on Elusive Empires. Editor and contributor. Ars Orientalis 32.  

Root 1985  "The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis: Reassessing a Programmatic Relationship." American Journal of Archaeology 89: 103-122.   

Root 1988 "Evidence from Persepolis for the Dating of Persian and Archaic Greek Coinage."  Numismatic Chronicle 148: 1-12.   

Root 1989 "The Persian Archer at Persepolis:  Aspects of Chronology, Style, and Symbolism." In R. Descat, ed., L'Or perse et l'histoire grecque, 33-50. Revue des Études Anciennes 91.

Root 1990  "Circles of Artistic Programming:  Strategies for Studying Creative Process at Persepolis." In A.C. Gunter, ed., Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, 115-139.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Root 1991  "From the Heart:  Powerful Persianisms in the Art of the Western Empire." In H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg and A. Kuhrt, eds., Asia Minor and Egypt: Old Cultures in a New Empire,” 1-29.Achaemenid History 6.  Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.

Root 1997 “Cultural Pluralisms on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets.” In M.-F. Boussac, ed., Recherches récentes sur l’empire achéménide, 229-252.Theme volume: TOPOI Suppl.1.  

Root 1998 “Replicating, Inscribing, Giving:  Ernst Herzfeld and Artaxerxes’ Silver Phiale in the Freer Gallery of Art.” Co-author with A.C. Gunter.  Ars Orientalis  28: 3-40. 

Root 1999 "The Cylinder Seal from Pasargadae: Of Wheels and Wings, Dates and Fate."In R. Boucharlat, J.E Curtis, and E. Haerinck, eds., Neo-Assyrian, Median, Achaemenian and Other Studies in Honor of David Stronach, 271-303.  Iranica Antiqua 34.

Root 2007  “Reading Persepolis in Greek: Gifts of the Yauna.” In C. Tuplin, ed., Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire, 177-225. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.

Root 2008 “Reading Persepolis in Greek Part Two: Marriage Metaphors and Unmanly Virtues.” In S.M.R. Darbandi and A.   Zournatzi, eds., Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 195-221.  Athens: National   Hellenic Research Foundation.

Root 2008 “The Legible Image: How Did Seals and Sealing Matter in Persepolis?.” In P. Briant, W. Henkelman, and M. Stolper, eds., Archives des Fortifications de Persépolis: État des question et perspectives de recherches, 85-150.  Persika 12.  Paris: de Boccard.  

Root 2010  “Palace to Temple – King to Cosmos: Achaemenid Foundation Texts in Iran.” In M. J. Boda and J.R. Novotny, eds., From the Foundations to the Crenellations: Essays on Temple Building in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible, 165-210. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Root 2011  “Elam in the Imperial Imagination: From Nineveh to Persepolis.” In J. Alvarez-Mon and M.B. Garrison, eds., Elam and Persia, 419-474. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Root 2013  "Defining the Divine in Achaemenid Persian Kingship: The View from Bisitun.” In L. Mitchell and C. Melville, eds., Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, 23-65.  Leiden: Brill.

Root 2015  “Achaemenid Imperial Architecture: Performative Porticoes of Persepolis.” In S. Babaie and T. Grigor, eds.,Persian Architecture and Kingship: Displays of Power and Politics in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis, 1-63.  London: I.B. Tauris.