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Pottery in Hellenistic tradition from ancient Bactria: The Kurganzol fortress (Uzbekistan, Central Asia)

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Abstract Kurganzol is one of the fortresses founded in ancient Bactria during the conquest of Alexander the Great. An archaeometric characterisation was conducted on 20 pottery sherds recovered in the earliest settlement dated to the late-4th BC. The aim is to examine both the composition and variation of the raw materials used and the production ...
V. Martínez Ferreras   +5 more
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Hellenistic settlement of Bactria: the question of the typology of the archaeological materials

OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii", 2020
This article, based on archaeological materials, attempts to develop a typology of settlements of Bactria of the Hellenistic epochs. Analysis of these data with a certain degree of probability allows us to distinguish the following types of settlements: city -state, city, fortress, fortification wall, private estate.
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Tableware in the Hellenistic Tradition from the City of Kampyr Tepe in Ancient Bactria (Uzbekistan)

Archaeometry, 2015
Slipped and unslipped wares from Kampyr Tepe dated to the Hellenistic–Seleucid and Greco‐Bactrian periods stylistically resemble tableware from the Greek tradition. Since two pottery workshops have been recovered at the site, the aim is to shed light on the provenance and the production and consumption patterns of the tableware, as well as on the ...
V. Martínez Ferreras   +5 more
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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CITIES AND VILLAGES OF NORTH-WESTERN BACTRIA DURING THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD

2023
This article analyzes the historical geography of the towns and villages of Old Termez, Kampirtepa, Suragana in the Hellenistic period of North-western Bactria. It is based on the fact that the city of Alexandria Oxiana is correctly located in the area of Old Termez, not the monument of ...
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Thundering Zeus. The Making of Hellenistic Bactria. Frank L. Holt.

Buddhist Studies Review, 2002
Thundering Zeus. The Making of Hellenistic Bactria. Frank L. Holt. (Hellenistic Culture and Society XXXII), University of California Press, Berkeley and London 1999. xviii, 221 pp. ISBN 0-520-21140-5.
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When Socrates met the Buddha: Greek and Indian Dialectic in Hellenistic Bactria and India

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2007
If with all these openings there had been no exchange whatever between East and West in their literary productions, it would have been strange, to say no more; and though, as I repeat, we have no tangible evidence of anything like translations, whether oriental or occidental, at that time …Those words come from one of Max Müller's last essays ...
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Greek Power in Hellenistic Bactria:

2020
Laurianne, Martinez-Sève   +1 more
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Hellas Eschate : the interactions of Greek and non-Greek populations in Bactria-Sogdiana during the Hellenistic period

2009
This study deals with the syncretism between Greek and non-Greek peoples as evidenced by their architectural, artistic, literary and epigraphic remains. The sites under investigation were in the eastern part of the Greek world, particularly Ai Khanoum, Takht-i-Sangin, Dilberdjin, and Kandahar.
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