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Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Author(s): Rachel Mairs (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: May 14, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 74 pages
- ISBN-10: 1009782142
- ISBN-13: 9781009782142
Book Description
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.
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Book Description
This Element makes a relatively under-studied body of fascinating material accessible to a wider scholarly and popular audience.