Providing a Comparative Geo-referenced Database for Religious Artefacts in Ai Khanoum and Taxila’s Sirkap Mound [PDF]
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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Il papiro di Ai Khanoum, frammento di Senocrate e di Aristotele: alcune proposte testuali ed esegetiche. [PDF]
In 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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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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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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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).
Silvia Fazzo
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Bertille Lyonnet. Questions on the Date of the Hellenistic Pottery from Central Asia (Ai Khanoum, Marakanda and Koktepe) [PDF]
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 ...
Johanna Lhuillier
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Ai Khanoum and Greek Domination in Central Asia
Ai Khanoum is probably the most important and the best-known of the Greek settlements founded in Bactria by the Seleucid kings. The site was excavated between 1964 and 1978, but its chronology remains unclear. The purpose of this article is to give a more accurate view of its history, taking into account the results of recent research.
Laurianne Martinez-Sève
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Western, Eastern, both, or neither? Translocalism as alternative approach to syncretism and hybridity in Hellenistic Bactria [PDF]
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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Studying the Archaeological and Historical Developments of the Ancient City of Ai-Khanoum
The ancient city of Ai-Khanum is a cultural heritage of the Greco-Bactrian era, established in the 4th century BCE in the historic region of Taloqan, now part of modern Afghanistan, by Alexander the Great. Rediscovered by archaeologists in the mid-20th century, this historical monument has largely been overlooked in scholarly research and is considered
Gulabuddin SAMADI
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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]
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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