After Alexander : Central Asia before Islam / edited by Joe Cribb & Georgina Herrmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cribb, Joe.

Herrmann, Georgina.

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 133.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Numismatics.

Asia, Central--History.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

History.

Asia, Central--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Asia, Central.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Numismatics--Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

xvi, 514 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Central Asia: West and East

Nomads and the shaping of Central Asia: from the Early Iron Age to the Kushan Period / Claude Rapin

Nomad migration in Central Asia / Kazim Abdullaev

Regions and territories in Southern Central Asia: what the Surkham Darya Province tells us about Bactria / Sebastian Stride

Bactria, Land of a thousand cities / Pierre Leriche

Ai Khanum reconstructed / Guy Lecuyot

The culture of Parthian Nisa between Steppe and empire / Antonio Invernizzi

Termez in Antiquity / Pierre Leriche & Shakir Pidaev

The arrangement of buildings in the quarters of a Sogdian City / Grigory Semyenov

Ardashir's Eastern campaign and the Numismatic evidence / Michael Alram

The Sasanian relief at Rag-i Bibi (Northern Afghanistan) / Frantz Grenet ...[et al.]

The fortifications at Gobekly-depe / G.A. Koshelenko

The Bullae of Gobekly-depe / Vasif Gaibov

Gorgân and Dehistan: the North-East frontier of the Iranian Empire / Olivier Lecomte

The fortifications of the City of Gyaur Kala, Merv / V.A. Zavyalov

Money as a marker of cultural continuity and change in Central Asia / Joe Cribb

Some questions regarding the numismatics of Pre-Islamic Merv / Natasha Smirnova

Monetary circulation in ancient Tokharistan / Edvard Rtveladze

Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD 800 / Helen Wang

Religion iconography on Ancient Iranian coins / Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

The Fire Temple at Tash-k'irman Tepe, Chorasmia / Alison V.G. Betts & Vadim N. Yagodin

A tower of silence of the Sasanian Period at Bandiyan: some observations about Dakhmas in Zoroastrian religion / Mehdi Rahbar

Buddhism and features of the Buddhist Art of Bactria-Tokharistan / Tigran Mkrtychev.

Notes:

Maps on lining paper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197263846

0197263844

OCLC:

70173198