Abstract

The paper is a concise survey of the age-old problems of the origin, chronology and development of the Zoroastrian “fire temple”, a place of worship in which a fire was kept burning continuously as a visible embodiment of the divinity Ātar. The author starts with consideration of a selection of sources relative to the matter at hand, highlighting the fact that such structures remain unmentioned both in the Avesta and in the Achaemenid sources. She subsequently dwells on some architectonic det...

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