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Religious life in Hellenistic Bactria was rich and diverse. Regrettably, the sources for the region, both textual and archaeological, are problematic due to their provenance and distance from the people who lived there.
Ross, Edward Atom Sizeland
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Laurianne Martinez-Sève. Roi et cités en Asie Centrale : un roi indispensable ? [PDF]
, 2016 The relations existing between the Hellenistic kings and the cities they founded in the remote regions of Central Asia are not well known, especially in comparison with the abundant documents regarding the eastern basin of the Mediterranean. This article
Messina, Vitto, Vitto Messina
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The new year's festivals and the shrine of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Sy Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan [PDF]
, 1999 This study examines the customs and origins of three spring festivals at the shrine of 'Ali b. Abi Talib, Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan; namely Nauroz, Janda Bala and Gul-i Surkh.
Lee, Jonathan Leonard
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Specific Characteristics Of Bactria's Hellenism Period
, 2023 Bactria is an ancient center of civilization on the Great Silk Road was located and included the territories of presentday southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and northern Afghanistan.
B, B. B. (Bazarov)
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Demetrius I of Bactria: An Analysis of Hellenistic Royal Power through Numismatic Evidence
, 2016 Literary and archaeological evidence for the Hellenistic Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms is extremely sparse, and scholarship relies heavily on extant royal coins.
Joseph, Frances Ann Marcinkiewicz
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Greek Religion in Bactria [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this thesis is to describe forms of Greek religion in the context of Graeco-Bactrian kingdom. The lack of written sources is typical for the region, my analysis is therefore based on archaeological evidence.
Kolmačka, Tobiáš
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, 2016 In recent years, there have been several major new publications of documentary texts from Bactria, in present-day northern Afghanistan, in the Aramaic, Greek and Bactrian languages.
Mairs, Rachel
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Homeric Scenes in Bactria and India: Two Silver Plates with Bactrian and Middle Persian Inscriptions
, 2018 http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/abst/vol28/SimsWilliams.htmlInternational audienceTwo decorative plates with Bactrian and Middle Persian inscriptions offer new evidence about the cultural transfers from the Mediterranean to Bactria and India in ...
Grenet, Frantz +2 more
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Stasanor of Soloi and the Government of Bactria during the Wars of the Diadochi
, 2017 Stasanor of Soloi was a seasoned Greek Companion of Alexander III and the first satrap of Bactria-Sogdiana who achieved a certain political stability in his office.
Mendoza Sanahuja, Marc
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, 2017 The excavations at Torbulok in the Southwest of Tajikistan put another sanctuary on the map of religious sites of the Hellenistic Far East. Until 2016 more than 550 square meters were excavated with a complex of several terraces, courtyards and smaller ...
Lindström, Gunvor
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