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R. Mairs (2016) ‘The Archaeology of the Hellenistic : A Survey. Supplement 4,’ Hellenistic Far East Bibliography, www..org, published December 2016.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE HELLENISTIC FAR EAST: A SURVEY Bactria, Central and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100

Supplement 4 (December 2016)

Rachel Mairs

Notes and Acknowledgements (www.facebook.com/groups/880216872056617/), and the many scholars who have shared their work on This document is a supplement to the 2011 publication Academia.edu. The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. In the following sections, I assume that the reader has A numismatic complement to this Hellenistic Far East the 2011 literature review (hereafter, ‘HFE 2011’) to Bibliography, which is restricted largely to hand. It is available online (www.bactria.org), or may archaeological and epigraphic publications, is now be purchased in hard copy from Oxbow Books available, prepared by Simon Glenn (Glenn 2016). (www.oxbowbooks.com). Readers are invited to submit corrigenda or details of I am grateful to the following for sharing references new publications for inclusion to and publications with me: Warwick Ball, Pierre Briant, [email protected] – any such information will Milinda Hoo, Elisa Iori, Luca Olivieri, Zach Silvia and be gratefully received, and acknowledged in Yang Juping. Thanks also to the members of the subsequent updates. HCARN Facebook group

CONTENTS

1.2 Chronological and Geographical Parameters ...... 2 3.2 Theory and Archaeological Practice (Culture and Identity >) ...... 2 4.3 Edited Volumes (General Publications >) ...... 2 5.1.1 History of Archaeological Research (Archaeology > Introduction >) ...... 2 5.2.1 Takht-i Sangin and the North-East (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, , >) ...... 2 5.2.2 Ai Khanoum and its Hinterland (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 2 5.2.3 Bactra and its Oasis (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 2 5.2.4 Termez, the Surkhan-darya and the North-West (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 2 5.2.5 Derbent – the ‘Iron Gates’ (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 3 5.2.6 Samarkand and the Zeravshan Valley (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 3 5.2.8 and Areia (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) ...... 3 Although no Hellenistic material has yet been excavated at Herat, new archaeological projects in the city may be followed with interest: see Franke 2015...... 3 5.3.1 Begram (Archaeology > South of the Hindu : The , and India >) ...... 3 5.3.2 Old – Alexandria in Arachosia (Archaeology > South of the : The Kabul Region, Arachosia and India >) ...... 3 5.3.3 Gandhāra and Northwestern India (Archaeology > South of the Hindu Kush: The Kabul Region, Arachosia and India >) ...... 3

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UPDATES BY CHAPTER AND SECTION

1.2 Chronological and Geographical (No. 126 December 2011 and No. 128 June 2012) were Parameters devoted to ‘Archéologie(s) en situation coloniale’. Note in particular Rapin and Gorshenina 2011 on Russo-Soviet Howe 2016 addresses the modern historiography of archaeology in and Fenet 2011 on early ’s campaigns in . twentieth-century French archaeological missions in Afghanistan, Persia and the Far East. On the Hellenistic world in Chinese historical sources, see Yang 2014-15. Also of relevance is Gorshenina 2012’s monograph on Central Asia as a geographical and cultural ‘frontier’ Arora 2010-2011 reflects on contact and cultural region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. influence between Greeks and Indians over the longue durée. 5.2.1 Takht-i Sangin and the North-East (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, 3.2 Theory and Archaeological Practice Margiana, Chorasmia >) (Culture and Identity >) Lindström 2016 examines votive practices at the Temple Ball 2012 discusses nineteenth-century British of the Oxus. preoccupations with Alexander in Afghanistan, and the identification of his supposed descendants. 5.2.2 Ai Khanoum and its Hinterland (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, See Mairs 2016a on long-distance exchange of Margiana, Chorasmia >) commodities (and their meanings) between Central and West Asia. Francfort 2014, in the Festschrift for Elena Kuz’mina,

discusses a sculpture from the Temple with Indented 4.3 Edited Volumes (General Publications >) Niches. Abdullaev 2014’s discussion of Central Asian archaeological sites with apparent ‘empty space’ inside The volume Alexander and the East, edited by Nawotka their fortifications includes Ai Khanoum. An English and Wojciechowska 2016, contains several articles of expansion of Hoo 2015’s Dutch study of globalisation relevance to Central Asia. Lerner 2016 revisits the and Ai Khanoum is forthcoming in Ancient West and question of Alexander’s route to Marakanda. Kubica East for 2018. 2016 re-examines the massacre of the Branchidae. Malinowski 2016 considers connections between and China. 5.2.3 Bactra and its Oasis (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, The forthcoming Festschrift for Getzel Cohen will Chorasmia >) include, inter alia, an analysis of recent trends in research on Greek colonisation in Central Asia (Martinez-Sève The Kushan-period military camp excavated at the mid- forthcoming 2017). point between Bactra and Kampyr-tepe, on the Oxus, is also of interest for scholars of earlier periods: see de la The volume edited by Filigenzi and Giunta 2009 Vaissière, et al. 2015a; de la Vaissière, et al. 2015b. celebrates fifty years of Italian archaeological research in Afghanistan. Historic movements in the course of the Balkh river, and associated human exploitation of the land, are plotted by Lindström, et al. 2013’s Zwischen Ost und West contains Fouache, et al. 2012. This project was inaugurated articles on Ai Khanoum and Takht-i Sangin. following the discovery in 2002 of Hellenistic architectural blocks buried in alluvium in a former course Espagne, et al. 2016 contains articles on Central Asia and of the river. its place on the ‘Silk Road’, covering a wide chronological range.. 5.2.4 Termez, the Surkhan-darya and the

Abdullaev 2005 contains several articles touching on North-West (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Hellenistic material from Samarkand, Termez and Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) Kurganzol. On early Hellenistic material from Kampyr-tepe, 5.1.1 History of Archaeological Research including a river landing stage, see Dvurechenskaya 2016, (Archaeology > Introduction >) who also discusses later material.

Abdullaev, et al. 2013 reviews ten years of the Czech- Two special editions of Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie

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Uzbek archaeological project at Jandavlattepa. 5.3.2 Old Kandahar – Alexandria in 5.2.5 Derbent – the ‘Iron Gates’ Arachosia (Archaeology > South of the (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, Hindu Kush: The Kabul Region, Arachosia Margiana, Chorasmia >) and India >)

The results of the 2013 field season at the Hellenistic For new studies on the administration of Achaemenid and fortress of Uzundara are presented by Rtveladze and post-Achaemenid Kandahar, see Sections 6.3 and 6.4 Dvurechenskaya 2015. 5.3.3 Gandhāra and Northwestern India 5.2.6 Samarkand and the Zeravshan Valley (Archaeology > South of the Hindu Kush: (Archaeology > Sites: Bactria, Sogdiana, The Kabul Region, Arachosia and India >) Margiana, Chorasmia >) Previously unpublished archival documents relating to Sir Excavations at Kojtepa are published by Abdullaev and Aurel Stein’s archaeological explorations in Swat are Genito 2014 (to which I have not had access). Genito and discussed by Olivieri 2015a and published in full in Pardaev 2015 report on trial trenches at the site Olivieri 2015b.

Reutova and Akhadova 2015 mark fifty years of On recent excavations of the fortifications at Barikot/Bīr- archaeological excavation at Afrasiab. koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, see Iori, et al. 2015.

5.2.8 Herat and Areia (Archaeology > Sites: 6.3 (Language and Texts >) Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia >) Henkelman and Folmer 2016 discuss the tally sticks Although no Hellenistic material has yet been excavated among the Achaemenid Aramaic texts from Bactria. at Herat, new archaeological projects in the city may be followed with interest: see Franke 2015. Mairs 2016b presents the Aramaic and Greek documentary texts from Bactria for a papyrological audience. 5.3.1 Begram (Archaeology > South of the Hindu Kush: The Kabul Region, Arachosia 6.4 Other Languages (Language and Texts >) and India >) See Fisher and Stolper 2015 on the Achaemenid Elamite The recovery and conservation of Begram ivories looted material from Kandahar. from the National Museum of Afghanistan is recounted in Ambers, et al. 2014.

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