ABSTRACT
In the volume of Papers on Iranian Subjects, published in 1914 in honour of the Jubilee of the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Madressa, Dr. J. M. Unvala has given a valuable collection of evidence for determining the nature of the religion of the Parthians. He there touches on the origin of the Parthian people as being possibly Turanian. This question being outside the course of Dr. Unvala’s argument is not worked out, but it does suggest a wider question, which is becoming more important with the progress of archæological discoveries in Asia Minor and Iran. This is the problem of non-Iranian influences on the Iranians in the pre-Zoroastrian epoch.
