Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780197275023
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan: Letters and Buddhist texts
Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780197275023
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781874780908
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Studies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN: 9783700181842
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; many of them bear dates in the so-called "Bactrian era", which is also known from a few inscriptions, such as the Tochi valley inscriptions in Pakistan, but whose starting-point is controversial. The Bactrian documents have the potential to transform our knowledge of the history of the region during the 4th to 8th centuries CE, a period for which we have few contemporary records, but before they can be fully exploited as historical sources it is necessary to establish their relative and absolute chronology. The present volume aims to fulfil this need. In Part 1 we consider the dated documents, discussing the nature of the Bactrian calendar and the epoch of the Bactrian era, and concluding with a conspectus in which all the attested dates are converted to Julian dates on the basis of the facts and arguments presented. In Part 2 we turn to the equally important undated documents, systematically weighing up all types of evidence, whether historical, prosopographical, palaeographical, linguistic or orthographic, which may have a bearing on their dating. Part 3 provides a handy check-list of our conclusions, while the Appendices provide additional and supporting material including editions of the Tochi valley inscriptions and of a Pahlavi letter which was purchased together with the Bactrian documents. This book will be required reading for scholars and students of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic history of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. It will also be a useful resource for those interested in the languages, religions and numismatics of the region.
Studies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783700183198
Category : Bactrian language
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780197275023
Category : Avestan language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan
Author: Warwick BallPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192573357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Since its publication in 1982, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan has become the main reference work for the archaeology of Afghanistan, and the standard sites and monuments record for the region; archaeological sites are now referred to under their Gazetteer catalogue number as routine in academic literature, and the volume has become a key text for developing research in the area. This revised and updated edition has been significantly expanded to incorporate new field-work and discoveries, as well as older field-work more recently published, and presents new cases of synthesis and unpublished material from private archives. New discoveries include the Rabatak inscription detailing the genealogy of the Kushan kings, a huge archive of Bactrian documents, Aramaic documents from Balkh on the last days of the Persian empire, a new Greek inscription from Kandahar, two tons of coins from Mir Zakah, a Sasanian relief of Shapur at Rag-i Bibi, a Buddhist monastic 'city' at Kharwar, new discoveries of Buddhist art at Mes Aynak and Tepe Narenj, and a newly revealed city at the Minaret of Jam. With over 1500 catalogue entries, supplemented with concordance material, site plans, drawings, and detailed maps prepared from satellite imagery, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan: Revised Edition is the most comprehensive reference work on the archaeology and monuments of the region ever undertaken. Cataloguing all recorded sites and monuments from the earliest times to the Timurid period, this volume will be an invaluable contribution to the renewed interest in Afghanistan's cultural heritage and an essential resource for students and researchers.
Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents
Author: Hossein SheikhPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900451998X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with the legal practice in Greater Khorasan between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.
Archaeology of Afghanistan
Author: Allchin Raymond AllchinPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Afghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped and sometimes conflicted. Its landscape embraces environments from the high mountains of the Hindu Kush to the Oxus basin and the great deserts of Sistan; trade routes from China to the Mediterranean, and from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea cross the country. It has seen the development of early agriculture, the spread of Bronze Age civilisation of Central Asia, the conquests of the Persians and of Alexander of Macedon, the spread of Buddhism and then Islam, and the empires of the Kushans, Ghaznavids, Ghurids and Timurids centred there, with ramifications across southern Asia. All of which has resulted in some of the most important, diverse and spectacular historical remains in Asia.First published in 1978, this was the first book in English to provide a complete survey of the immensely rich archaeological remains of Afghanistan. The contributors, all acknowledged scholars in their field, have worked in the country, on projects ranging from prehistoric surveys to the study of Islamic architecture. It has now been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to incorporate the latest discoveries and research.
Archaeology of Afghanistan
Author: Raymond AllchinPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
First published in 1978, this was the first book in English to provide a complete survey of the immensely rich archaeological remains of Afghanistan. It has now been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to incorporate the latest discoveries and research.
![Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum: Parthian. 1. Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa. Plates 1-5, Texts 1- v. 5. Saka documents. Port. 1-6. v. 3. Sogdian. [no.] II. Sogdian and other Iranian inscriptions of the Upper Indus, II. [no.] IV. Sogdian epigraphy of central Asia and Semirech'e. v. 5. Khotanese manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in the British Library. v. 6. Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. 1. Legal and economic documents. 1. Legal and Economic Developments (rev. ed., 2012). 2. Letters and Buddhist texts. 3. Plates PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/bxq50AEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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