Anahit Perikhanian
Dr. Anahit Perikhanian, one of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian philology as well as the social institutions of Iran and Armenia in the Parthian and Sasanian periods, is Senior Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her most recent book is Materials for an Etymological Dictionary of Classical Armenian:I - Loan words from Middle Iranian Languages (in Russian; Erevan, 1994).