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Mouseion in Ai-Khanoum in Hellenistic culture [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2018 Артем Анатольевич Попов
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Between mirage and “tangible grandeur”: Ai Khanoum, DAFA, and approaches to Baktrian Hellenism
This thesis examines the Graeco-Baktrian site of Ai Khanoum through the lens of the French archaeological delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA), in order to define the context of their interpretations of the excavated evidence and demonstrate the far-reaching influence of those interpretations on the historiography of Hellenistic Central Asia.
Kalogeropoulos, Xenofon
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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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Compte-rendu de Brian Kritt, The Seleucid Mint of Ai Khanoum
, 2017 Olivier Bordeaux
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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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Hoards from Hellenistic to Kushan Central Asia: Towards Some Interpretations [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2023 This article is concerned with the interpretation of diverse examples of hoards (intentional deposits of valuable objects) from Central Asia’s Hellenistic and Kushan periods that are traditionally understood in utilitarian terms. As a means of comparison,
Lauren Morris
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On Types of Certainty: from Buddhism to Islam and Beyond [PDF]
, 2022 Studies the threefold hierarchy of certainty, from its origins in Mahāyāna Buddhism, through Islam, to 17th century China. This tripartite scheme may be traced back to the ancient Buddhist scheme of the threefold wisdom as systematized by Vasubandhu of ...
CHASE, Michael
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De la théorie à la pratique, les travaux de Jean-Claude Gardin en Asie centrale
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2016 The article presents a personal working experience with Jean-Claude Gardin in Afghanistan. It first deals when he was implementing his theories on the codification of potery using the ceramic material from Aï Khanoum, and then, when, heading a survey in ...
Bertille Lyonnet
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Swimming Pools and Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean World of the 4th to 1st Century BC [PDF]
, 2018 While it is debated in scholarship whether the Greeks conceptualized swimming as a sport and leisure activity, the archaeological evidence of swimming pools in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th to 1st century BC speaks for the existence of such a ...
Trümper, Monika
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Heródoto, 2019 This paper deals with the historiographical representation of Hellenistic Bactria in Barthold Niebuhr’s Lectures on Ancient History, based on lectures given at Bonn University in the 1820’s and published in German and English in the 1850’s.
Fábio Augusto Morales +1 more
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