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Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Khalili Collections
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Khalili Collections this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Accounts categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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language : en
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Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afghanistan categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Bactrian language categories.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan Letters And Buddhist Texts
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan Letters And Buddhist Texts written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afghanistan categories.
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Release Date : 2018
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Afghanistan categories.
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.
New Light On Ancient Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
New Light On Ancient Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Afghanistan categories.
Bactrian is an ancient language of northern Afghanistan, belonging to the family of Indo-European languages and so related to both Persian and Pashto. This lecture gives a historical overview of Bactrian studies and assesses the importance of recently discovered manuscripts for the field.
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
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Author : Nicholas SimsWilliams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum written by Nicholas SimsWilliams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afghanistan categories.
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
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