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State Hermitage Museum
2018-2024
New York University
2022
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2022
Zhejiang University
2022
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2018-2022
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2020
Musée de la Civilisation
2016
The Zarafshan River runs from the mountains of Tajikistan and terminates in sands Kyzyl-Kum Desert Uzbekistan; it served as a communication route homeland for Sogdians. Sogdians are historically depicted merchants existing end first millennium BC through AD. While recent research has provided glimpse into cultivation, commerce, communication, consumption Lower Zarafshan, agricultural heartland Middle Basin remained unstudied. This paper presents results archaeobotanical investigations...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals. lack agreement concerning timing centers origin is due to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin, brittle bird bones. Here we show that chickens were widely raised southern Central Asia from fourth century BC through medieval periods, likely dispersing along Silk Road. We present archaeological...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals1,2. lack agreement timing center origin is due, in large part, to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin bird bones. Historical sources attest prominence chickens southern Europe southwest Asia by last centuries BC3. Likewise, art historical depictions anthropomorphic rooster-human chimeras are...

 Buddhist Sogdian texts contain about 300 loanwords of Indian origin excluding the ones that are known also in Manichaean, secular, or Christian texts. About sixty percent these can easily be seen to borrowed from Hybrid Sanskrit. A further twenty so not recognized as source because they reflect linguistic developments within Sogdian. Another a Prakrit show intermediation another language, such Parthian (probably including pwty ‘Buddha’), Tocharian, Chinese. one has unclear sources....
Abstract The article represents an attempt to read and analyze five of eleven inscriptions in Old Chorasmian language written cursive script. These are incised on silver vessels which were mostly found the Kama region district Perm Russia. is divided into sections. Its first section presents a list material discussed status quaestionis article, introduces variations script throughout time. second devoted analysis words recurrent definition formularies used under scrutiny. third provides...
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the eldest research fellow of Institute Oriental Manuscripts, and a member Advisory Board Scrinium, died peacefully in his apartment Saint Petersburg on 94th year life.He was born October 6, 1923 Petrograd, Liteyny district, family an engineer.From childhood, Vladimir Aronovich grasped some knowledge Yiddish (which became useful later conversation with German scholars such as W.B. Henning), but course native language Russian.During Stalin's persecutions, father repressed after several years...
Adam Benkato: Āzandnāmē. An Edition and Literary-Critical Study of the Manichaean–Sogdian Parable-Book. (Beiträge zur Iranistik, 42.) €79. 210 pp. Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978 3 95490 236 1. - Volume 81 Issue
Article Payne, Richard E. / King, Rhyne (Hg.): The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan. Rule and Resistance the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE–600 CE. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2020. XXII, 270 S. m. Abb. 8° = Classica et Orientalia 24. Hartbd. € 68,00. ISBN 978-3-447-11453-0. was published on November 1, 2022 journal Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (volume 117, issue 3).
The article proposes localization and explanation of two western cantons Sogd according to the Chinese sources. Mu or Wudi corresponds Āmul Unahe Karkōh. It is appended by edition fragmented Sogdian inscription from Köshk Zohra-Tahir on Amu-Darya river.