The collection of Indian products in the treasury seems to prove that their presence at Ai Khanum has nothing to do with any commercial relations--the silk road having opened only later--but is to be connected with the military expedition ...
This book not only has the potential to be a ‘new classic’ but, just as important, will fundamentally reorient scholarship on these regions, ensuring its vitality and relevance for the wider fields of classical and Near Eastern Studies ...
... Aï Khanum , the funerary monument of Kineas . Beginning of the 3rd century B.C. Limestone 14 x 15 cm National Museum of Afghanistan 05.42.190 The Gymnasium 30-31 THIS SUNDIAL IS A RECONSTRUCTION based on. Inscribed base for the stele Aï ...
... Aï Khanum in Afghan- istan . Third or second century B.C. The first scientifically designed sun - dials were probably produced in the third century B.C. as astronomical and mathematical science became able to define the path of the sun ...
... Aï Khanum , show great diversity.154 In the centre of the town are two mausoleums in the pure Greek tradition : the earlier was for a certain Kineas , an officer or magis- trate who had presided over the foundation of the city on commis ...
... Ai Khanum provides a welcome solution . One of the control marks listed above ( @ ) - the first in the group because it was used on the earliest series of the joint coinage of Seleucus and Antiochus - has been found stamped on the ...
... Aï Khanoum en Bactriane. CRAI 1967: 306–24. Bernard, P. 1967b. Aï Khanum on the Oxus: a Hellenistic city in Central ... Ai Khanoum IV: les monnaies hors trésors. Questions d'histoire grécobactrienne (MDAFA 28), Paris. Bernard, P. 1987 ...
These contributions -- in response to the reappearance of the magnificent hidden treasures from Afghanistan and their exhibition -- have shed new light on the significance of these works and have reinvigorated the discussion of the arts and ...
... Ai Khanum Founded by Antiochus I to be an important provincial center, Ai Khanum holds special significance for the study of the Hellenistic Far East, both under the Seleucids and later independent dynasties. The city was founded at the ...