Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia

von Rachel Mairs

74 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This Element examines - for the first time in a single volume - the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara). It examines how successive invaders of this region, from Persia, Greece and India, left their linguistic and textual mark. It reviews the surviving Hellenistic-period written material from archaeological sites in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan in Aramaic, Greek and Prakrit.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Antike
• ISBN: 9781009782104
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press