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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Plates
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Central Asia: West and East
- Nomad
- 2 Nomads and the Shaping of Central Asia: from the Early Iron Age to the Kushan period
- 3 Nomad Migration in Central Asia
- 4 Regions and Territories in Southern Central Asia: What the Surkhan Darya Province tells us about Bactria
- City
- 5 Bactria, Land of a Thousand Cities
- 6 Ai Khanum Reconstructed
- 7 The Culture of Parthian Nisa between Steppe and Empire
- 8 Termez in Antiquity
- 9 The Arrangement of Buildings in the Quarters of a Sogdian City
- Invasion
- 10 Ardashir’s Eastern Campaign and the Numismatic Evidence
- 11 The Sasanian relief at Rag-i Bibi (Northern Afghanistan)
- 12 The Fortifications at Gobekly-depe
- 13 The Bullae of Gobekly-depe
- 14 Gorgân and Dehistan: The North-East Frontier of the Iranian Empire
- 15 The Fortifications of the City of Gyaur Kala, Merv
- 16 Money
- 16 Money as a Marker of Cultural Continuity and Change in Central Asia
- 17 Some Questions Regarding the Numismatics of Pre-Islamic Merv
- 18 Monetary Circulation in Ancient Tokharistan
- 19 Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD 800
- Religion
- 20 Religious Iconography on Ancient Iranian Coins
- 21 The Fire Temple at Tash-k’irman Tepe, Chorasmia
- 22 A Tower of Silence of the Sasanian Period at Bandiyan: Some observations about Dakhmas in Zoroastrian Religion
- 23 Buddhism and Features of the Buddhist Art of Bactria-Tokharistan
- Index
- Maps
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- Source:
- After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
- Publisher:
- British Academy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Plates
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Central Asia: West and East
- Nomad
- 2 Nomads and the Shaping of Central Asia: from the Early Iron Age to the Kushan period
- 3 Nomad Migration in Central Asia
- 4 Regions and Territories in Southern Central Asia: What the Surkhan Darya Province tells us about Bactria
- City
- 5 Bactria, Land of a Thousand Cities
- 6 Ai Khanum Reconstructed
- 7 The Culture of Parthian Nisa between Steppe and Empire
- 8 Termez in Antiquity
- 9 The Arrangement of Buildings in the Quarters of a Sogdian City
- Invasion
- 10 Ardashir’s Eastern Campaign and the Numismatic Evidence
- 11 The Sasanian relief at Rag-i Bibi (Northern Afghanistan)
- 12 The Fortifications at Gobekly-depe
- 13 The Bullae of Gobekly-depe
- 14 Gorgân and Dehistan: The North-East Frontier of the Iranian Empire
- 15 The Fortifications of the City of Gyaur Kala, Merv
- 16 Money
- 16 Money as a Marker of Cultural Continuity and Change in Central Asia
- 17 Some Questions Regarding the Numismatics of Pre-Islamic Merv
- 18 Monetary Circulation in Ancient Tokharistan
- 19 Money in Eastern Central Asia before AD 800
- Religion
- 20 Religious Iconography on Ancient Iranian Coins
- 21 The Fire Temple at Tash-k’irman Tepe, Chorasmia
- 22 A Tower of Silence of the Sasanian Period at Bandiyan: Some observations about Dakhmas in Zoroastrian Religion
- 23 Buddhism and Features of the Buddhist Art of Bactria-Tokharistan
- Index
- Maps
