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100 1 _aBopearachchi, Osmund,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFrom Bactria to Taprobane :
_bSelected Works of Osmund Bopearachchi. Volume I: Central Asian and Indian Numismatics /
_cOsmund Bopearachchi.
246 3 _aSelected Works of Osmund Bopearachchi. Volume I: Central Asian and Indian Numismatics
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (716 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Sophytes, the Enigmatic Ruler of Central Asia /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Seleucid Coins of Central Asia and the Bactra Mint /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Two Unreported Coins from the Second Mir Zakah Deposit /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Monetary Policy of Bactria under the Seleucids /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- ‘Greek Realms in Afghanistan: New Data’ /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The First Local Monetary Issues of North-West India: New Data /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Overstruck Indo-Greek Coins /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Evidence of the Overstrikes for the Reconstruction of the History of the Indo-Greeks /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Graeco-Bactrian Issues of Later Indo-Greek Kings /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Menander Soter, an Indo-Greek King Chronological and Geographical Observations /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Euthydemus’ Imitations and the Date of Sogdian Independence /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- On the So-Called Earliest Representation of Gaṅeśa /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Indian Brahman on a Coin of Indo-Greek Telephus /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Coin Production and Circulation in Central Asia and North-West India (before and after Alexander’s Conquest) /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Recent Coin Hoard Evidence on Pre-Kushana Chronology /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Some Interesting Coins from the Pandayale Hoard /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Two More Unique Coins From the Second Mir Zakah Deposit /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- ‘Thundering Zeus Revisited’ /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Diomedes Overstruck by Agathocleia /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- To Err is Human /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Three Interesting Indo-Greek Coins /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Over-struck and Double-struck /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Two Rare Pre-Kushan Coins /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Was Indo-Greek Artemidoros the Son of Indo-Scythian Maues?: Amluk Dara Hoard Revisited /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- A Note on Some Interesting Indo-Greek Coins /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Emergence of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Two Exceptional Indo-Greek Numismatic Documents /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- A Gold Coin of the Indo-Parthian Ruler Abdagases II /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Naštēn, a Hitherto Unknown Iranian Ruler in India /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Indo-Parthians /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- A New Gold Coin of Abdagases II /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- The Numismatic Data and the Dating of the Begram Bazaar /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Sabedana or Sarpadana /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Some Observations on the Chronology of the Early Kushans /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- ‘Begram Stūpa Deposit: Further Study on the Origin of Kushan Gold’ /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Vandalized Afghanistan /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Preserving Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage: What is to be Done? /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- A Joy and a Curse /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi -- Index /
_rOsmund Bopearachchi.
520 _aThe first volume comprises Osmund Bopearachchi's most important articles on the numismatics of Central Asia and India, particularly of pre-Bactrian, Graeco-Bactrian, Indo-Greek, Indo-Parthian and Kushan coins. There are 36 articles on numismatics and 3 on the destruction of Afghanistan's cultural heritage during the period of Civil War. It is well known that from the time of Theodore Bayer, the reconstruction of the history of Greek settlers of Alexander the Great in Bactria and India and their nomadic successors, Scythians, Parthians, and Kushans, has depended mainly on coins. It is only in the light of these coins that the rare ancient texts and the limited archaeological evidence can be used for writing their history. Since the publication of Bopearachchi's first book, Monnaies grécobactriennes et indo-grecques, Catalogue raisonné (1991), nearly half a million coins have surfaced in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of accidental finds and illegal excavations. His research is mainly based on these new discoveries. Through his work he has brought to light new kings, coin types, monograms, overstrikes and coin hoards. Bopearachchi has also shown that the history of Greeks and their successors in Central Asia and India can no longer be written based solely on numismatics. He has taken into consideration other forms of human activities such as architecture, sculpture, epigraphy, ceramics and artefacts and shows it amply in his writings based on his own investigations and the contributions of eminent archaeologists, historians, numismatists, epigraphists and art historians of Central Asia and India.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aNumismatics
_zAsia, Central.
650 0 _aNumismatics
_zIndia.
650 0 _aShipping
_zIndian Ocean
_zHistory.
651 0 _aAsia
_zBactria.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tFrom Bactria to Taprobane : Selected Works of Osmund Bopearachchi. Volume I: Central Asian and Indian Numismatics.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2015.
_z9789350980699
_w(OCoLC)909012463
_w(DLC) 2015358140
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004752139
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