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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, Jakob Halfmann, Natalie Korobzow, Bobomullo Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The votive plaques in the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures: what they tell about the cults [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2023
This paper proposes a comparison between the votive plaques which were part of the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures, both dating for the main to the Achaemenid period. In a first section the questions of provenance and authenticity are discussed.
Frantz Grenet
doaj  

The Oxus Auloi

Journal of Music Archaeology
Although the aulos was one of the most important musical instruments of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and has a rich history of research, certain significant archaeological finds have only recently become the subject of extensive music-archaeological ...
Olga Sutkowska
doaj   +5 more sources

Western, Eastern, both, or neither? Translocalism as alternative approach to syncretism and hybridity in Hellenistic Bactria [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2023
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
doaj  

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
doaj  

Innovation Processes in Bronze Age Temples in the Central Asia

Археология евразийских степей
The temples and palaces of Bactria and Margiana in the Bronze Age are of special interest in histori-cal science. In the last third of the XX – early XXI centuries, in the archaeology of the Bronze Age in the ...
Abdusamad M. Kurbonov
doaj   +1 more source

Transitions socioculturelles lors de la fin de la civilisation de l’Oxus. Asie centrale, entre les âges du Bronze et du Fer

Les Nouvelles De L'archéologie, 2020
Johanna Lhuillier
exaly  

The Oxus Temple: Localization of the Avestan Vahvi Dāityā

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 2013
exaly  

Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

2019
Élise Luneau
exaly  

Le temple du dieu Oxus à Takht-i Sangin en Bactriane: Temple du feu ou pas?

Studia Iranica, 1994
exaly