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Cherchez la femme: Power and Female Agency in Bactriaat the dawn of the Hellenistic Age [PDF]
Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies, 2020 Due prominently to the scanty nature of evidence on the ground attesting to an imperial presence which, however, historiographical sources claim to have been real and lasting over time, the satrapy of Bactria (roughly embracing northeastern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan) to this day still struggles to free itself of some ...
Ferrario, Marco
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Terra multiplex et varia natura. On the settlement patterns of Bactria in the Hellenistic Period [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 The proposed study aims to investigate the character of settlement transformation in ancient Bactria (upper Amu Darya basin) during the period following the conquest of Alexander the Great. This transformation is addressed by the comparison of settlement development in the two regions of Bactria, its north -western part in present -day Uzbekistan and ...
Jakub Havlík
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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. Nevertheless, the implementation of new pottery shapes is the result of a local transformation process, that had already begun before the Macedonian ...
Kristina Junker
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The sanctuary of the Temple à redans in Ai Khanum (Hellenistic Bactria): cults and ritual practices [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2023 Jedna z hlavních svatyní ve městě Aj Chanum byla vykopána v letech 1968-1973 pod vedením Paula Bernarda a její studium se blíží ke konci. Cílem tohoto článku je popsat, jak byla svatyně organizována a jaké různé rituály se v jejích zdech slavily. Svatyně se skládala z několika budov stojících kolem nádvoří, které tvořilo jádro posvátného prostoru.
Laurianne Martinez‑Sève
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Heródoto: Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas, 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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Culture of Hellenistic Bactria and the finds of inscriptions of the end of XX – beginning of XXI century [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2020 The article is dedicated to the development of the modern researches of inscriptions which were found on the territory of Hellenistic Bactria (IV–I centuries BC). The emphasis is made on the texts discovered on clay and stone, as well as parchments. There are two important points in this work: the tax receipt on the parchment from the collection of ...
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Strabo about culture of Hellenistic Bactria [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2020 exaly +2 more sources
Numismatic sources as a refl ection of the culture of the Hellenistic Bactria [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2019 exaly +2 more sources
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 forgotten ones. Thracians and Thessalians in Bactria-Sogdiana [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 The presence and pre-eminence of settlers from the Northern Aegean world in early Hellenistic Bactria-Sogdiana have been tacitly accepted by scholars since Robert’s paper in 1968. The present article challenges the idea which backs up this assumption and
Marc Mendoza
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