Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient AfghanistanUniversity of California Press, 18 ต.ค. 2012 - 343 หน้า Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative informed by the author’s deep knowledge of his subject, this book covers two centuries of Bactria’s history, from its colonization by remnants of Alexander the Great’s army to the kingdom’s collapse at the time of a devastating series of nomadic invasions. Beginning with the few tantalizing traces left behind when the ‘empire of a thousand cities’ vanished, Holt takes up that trail and follows the remarkable and sometimes perilous journey of rediscovery. Lost World of the Ancient King describes how a single bit of evidence—a Greek coin—launched a search that drew explorers to the region occupied by the tumultuous warring tribes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Coin by coin, king by king, the history of Bactria was reconstructed using the emerging methodologies of numismatics. In the twentieth century, extraordinary ancient texts added to the evidence. Finally, one of the ‘thousand cities’ was discovered and excavated, revealing an opulent palace, treasury, temple, and other buildings. Though these great discoveries soon fell victim to the Afghan political crisis that continues today, this book provides a thrilling chronicle of the search for one of the world’s most enigmatic empires. |
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Checklist Numismatics | 7 |
figures | 10 |
Jacob Bruce | 11 |
Bruces tetradrachm of Eucratides | 13 |
4 | 22 |
Pellerins tetradrachm of Eucratides | 23 |
Pellerins stater of Euthydemus | 25 |
Framework Numismatics | 27 |
Commemorative tetradrachms | 45 |
Novelty Numismatics | 50 |
Narrative Numismatics | 67 |
MaPs | 71 |
Archaeology | 89 |
Cognitive Numismatics I | 160 |
The Lost World of the Golden King | 211 |
Notes | 221 |
Arthur Conolly and Joseph Wolff | 30 |
Alexander Bukhara Burnes | 35 |
Heliocles and Laodice tetradrachm | 41 |
9 | 44 |
Select Bibliography | 297 |
Illustration Credits | 329 |
ฉบับอื่นๆ - ดูทั้งหมด
Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan Frank L. Holt ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2012 |
คำและวลีที่พบบ่อย
Afghan Afghanistan Agathocles Ai Khanoum Alexander Alexander’s American Numismatic Society Antimachus Antiochus Apollodotus archaeological archéologiques Asiatic Society Bactria Bactria and India Bactrian coins Bactrian studies Balkh Bayer Bibliothèque British Museum bronze Bukhara Canali de Rossi Catalogue raisonné Central Asia coinage Comptes-Rendus de l’Académie Cunningham dafa Demetrius Diodotus Dioscuri drachms engraved Eucra Eucratides Eucratides II Eucratidion Euthydemus Euthydemus II example excavated Feuardent Fouilles d’Ai Khanoum gold Graeco-Bactrian gréco-bactriennes et indo-grecques grecques Greek Greeks in Bactria Guillaume Heliocles Hellenism Hellenistic Hellenistic Bactria Holt Ibid imitations Indo-Greek Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Iscrizioni Journal Kabul Kandahar Khanoum Afghanistan king’s l’Académie des Inscriptions Masson Menander minted monétaire Monnaies gréco-bactriennes monogram nomadic numismatist obverse Osmund Bopearachchi Oxford Oxus Pakistan Paris Parthian Paul Bernard Pellerin portrait Prinsep Qunduz Rapin reign reverse Revue Numismatique royal scholars Seleucid silver Sogdia specimen staters Tarn Tarn’s Taxila Tepe tetradrachm tion treasure trésors University Press Vaillant