• Paul (1970). Campagne de fouilles 1969 à Khanoum en Afghanistan [1969 excavation campaign at Khanoum in Afghanistan] (Report). DAFA. Retrieved...
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    The Ai-Khanoum plaque is an ancient Greco-Bactrian disk discovered at the archaeological site of Ai-Khanoum in Takhar Province, Afghanistan. This Hellenistic...
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    Antiochus II Theos. Recent analysis strongly suggests that the city of Ai-Khanoum, located in Takhar Province, northern Afghanistan, at the confluence of...
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  • in Transition. Thomas Barfield. ISBN 978-0-292-71066-5. Bernard, Paul: Khanoum en Afghanistan hier (1964-1978) et aujourd'hui (2001), p. 971 www.persee...
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    chlamys. Ai Khanoum, 2nd century BC. Gargoyle in the form of a Greek comic mask. Ai Khanoum, 2nd century BC. Plate depicting Cybele pulled by lions. Ai Khanoum...
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    in Ai-Khanoum, pointing to a high Hellenistic culture, combined with Eastern influences, starting from the 280-250 BCE period. Overall, -Khanoum was...
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  • provided by the discoveries made at Ai Khanoum, and as some claim, demonstrated how the Greek artists of Ai Khanoum not only had an affinity for the Greek...
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  • Almosi Gorge / Наскальные надписи ущелья Алмоси Campagne de fouille 1978 à Khanoum (Afghanistan) Documents épigraphiques kouchans Catalog of Characters...
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    1925 p.25 Inscriptions Of Asoka, E. Hultzsch, 1925 p.83 VP Yailenko, " Khanoum's Delphic Maxims and the Formation of Asoka's Dharma Doctrine", in: Ancient...
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    (1981). "The Euthydemid Coinage of Bactria: Further Hoard Evidence from Khanoum". Revue Numismatique. 6 (23): 7–44. doi:10.3406/numi.1981.1811. Stoneman...
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    in Ai-Khanoum, pointing to a high Hellenistic culture, combined with Eastern influences, starting from the 280–250 BC period. Overall, -Khanoum was...
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  • eastern cultures, and is thought to have traveled to the Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum (Alexandria on the Oxus) in modern Afghanistan. Clearchus wrote extensively...
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    Seleucus Nicator (312–281 BC), Ai Khanoum. Antiochus I (281–261 BC), Ai Khanoum. Antiochos II (261–246 BC), Ai Khanoum. Diodotus I (256–238 BC). Diodotus...
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    colonies in neighbouring Bactria, such as Alexandria on the Oxus (modern Ai-Khanoum) and Alexandria of the Caucasus (medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram). After...
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    original text contained all 147. Another inscription, discovered in 1966 at Ai-Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan, presents the final five maxims of Stobaeus...
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    evidence for the period comes largely from excavations of the city of Ai-Khanoum, where this period saw the expansion of irrigation networks, the construction...
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    4 : Des premières civilisations à l'époque hellénistique – … trouvées à Khanoum". De Kaboul à Samarcande: Les archéologues en Asie centrale. Collection...
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    Trésorerie du palais hellénistique d'Aï Khanoum. L'Apogée et la chute du royaume grec de Bactriane, Fouilles d'Aï Khanoum VIII, Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique...
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    within Transoxiana that existed for over two hundred years. The city of Ai-Khanoum, situated on the Oxus in northern Afghanistan, remains the only Graeco...
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    475–450 BC A hermaic sculpture of an old man, probably a philosopher. Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, 2nd century BC Male and female Baroque herms at the Rubenshuis...
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    the Qin Terracotta Army. Portrait of a man, Ai-Khanoum, 3rd-2nd century BC. Statue of Herakles from Ai-Khanoum, 3rd-2nd century BC. Clay and pigment head...
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    related by Stephanus of Byzantium, and Eustathius. On the Ai-Khanoum plaque from Ai Khanoum, Bactria, 3rd century BC. Helios is shown separately in the...
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    city of Ai-Khanoum circa 300 BCE, may have influenced the writings of Ashoka. These Greek inscriptions, located in the central square of Ai-Khanoum, put...
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    Greco-Bactrian kingdom on early India sculptural art. In particular the city of Ai-Khanoum being located at the doorstep of India, interacting with the Indian subcontinent...
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    after himself. The location of the city is uncertain, but it was probably Ai-Khanoum or perhaps Dilbarjin. Justin ends his account of Eucratides' life by claiming...
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  • a common practise in the ancient world. The most likely candidate is Ai-Khanoum, although Dilbarjin is another candidate. Ptolemy, vi, 1, 7; Strabo xi...
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    hermaic sculpture of an old man, thought to be the master of a gymnasium. He held a long stick in his right hand. Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, 2nd century BC....
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    Afrasiab murals Stamp seal (BM 119999) Seal of Khingila Siberian Ice Maiden Ai-Khanoum plaque Saksanokhur gold buckle Boar hunter (Hermitage Museum) Siberian...
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    derived from Hellenistic art, and possibly from the art of the cities of Ai-Khanoum and Nysa, but it also has similarities with the later Art of Gandhara...
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    on stone and discovered in Kuliab, a hundred kilometers northeast of Ai-Khanoum, also mentioned the victories of the prince Demetrius during the reign...
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