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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
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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
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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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Morphotype broadening of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) from Oxus civilization 4000 BP, Central Asia. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 The region of Transoxiana underwent an early agricultural-demographic transition leading to the earliest proto-urban centers in Central Asia. The agronomic details of this cultural shift are still poorly studied, especially regarding the role that long ...
Chen G +10 more
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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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Journal of Music ArchaeologyAlthough 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
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Innovation Processes in Bronze Age Temples in the Central Asia
Археология евразийских степейThe 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
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The FitzPatrick Lectures ON GREEK MEDICINE IN ROME. [PDF]
Br Med J, 1909 Allbutt TC.
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