Providing a Comparative Geo-referenced Database for Religious Artefacts in Ai Khanoum and Taxila’s Sirkap Mound [PDF]
Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023 The cities of Taxila in Pakistan, and Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan, are emblematic of the post-Alexandrian and post-Mauryan political landscapes of the broader South and Central Asian regions. While both have been thoroughly excavated, there has been little
Christos Nikolaou
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Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019 Afganistan’nın kuzeydoğusunda yer alan Ai Khanoum kentinin erken tarihi hakkındaki bilgiler oldukça sınırlıdır. Büyük İskender’in Pers İmparatorluğu hâkimiyetine son vermesiyle doğunun kapıları Greklere açıldı.
Özlem Albayrak
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Il papiro di Ai Khanoum, frammento di Senocrate e di Aristotele: alcune proposte testuali ed esegetiche. [PDF]
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento OcidentalIn questo contributo intendo ricostruire lo stato dell’arte concernente il papiro di Ai Khanoum, rinvenuto in Afghanistan nel 1977, che riporta il frammento di un dialogo di argomento platonico, risalente alla seconda metà del III sec.
Davide Pasanisi
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Western, Eastern, both, or neither? Translocalism as alternative approach to syncretism and hybridity in Hellenistic Bactria [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2023 Ideas of Hellenistic Central Asia as a cultural melting pot, resulting from the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures after Alexander the Great, continue to have considerable scholarly and popular appeal.
Milinda Hoo
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Heródoto, 2019 O presente artigo trata das representações historiográficas da Báctria helenística nas Lições de História Antiga de Barthold Niebuhr, ministradas na Universidade de Bonn na década de 1820 e publicadas em alemão e inglês na década de 1850.
Fábio Augusto Morales +1 more
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Una versione progredita della teoria delle idee nel papiro di Ai Khanoum: una scoperta nella scoperta [PDF]
Elenchos, 2020 Abstract The paper firstly focuses on a rare vox, that is, the verb μετίσχω, as a new finding in two different sources: the Π text of Methaphysics Lambda 1075b19 and the “Ai Khanoum philosophical papyrus” (not only at column II.9, but arguably at II.11 and IV.8–9 as well).
Fazzo, Silvia
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Deconstructing the ‘Greekness’ of Bactrian pottery. On the Greek‑Mediterranean influences on the local pottery production in Bactria during the Hellenistic period [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 It is often assumed that the Hellenistic pottery production in Bactria was highly influenced by Mediterranean ceramic shapes, a process, which was mainly caused by the settling of Greek immigrants.
Kristina Junker
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Bertille Lyonnet. Questions on the Date of the Hellenistic Pottery from Central Asia (Ai Khanoum, Marakanda and Koktepe) [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2016 Cet article offre une version actualisee d’un article publie par l’A. en francais dans un ouvrage edite en Ouzbekistan (« D’Ai Khanoum a Koktepe. Questions sur la datation absolue de la ceramique hellenistique d’Asie centralе », in : K. Abdullaev, ed., The traditions of East and West in the Antique cultures of Central Asia, Papers in Honor of Paul ...
Lhuillier, Johanna
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann +3 more
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The Hellenistic Far East in Historical Fiction. Ancient History, Modern Ideologies [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 It has become a truism that it is impossible to reconstruct a narrative history of Central Asia in the period after Alexander. Scant literary or epigraphic sources, and the pitfalls of reconstructing dynastic histories from coins, make scholars wary of ...
Rachel Mairs
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