Title: Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan /
Authors: Sims-Williams, Nicholas.; Muʼassasat Nūr al-Ḥusayn
Publisher: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Avestan language.; Law Afghanistan.; Bactrian language Texts.; Afghanistan History Sources.; Afghanistan Social conditions Sources.; Afghanistan Economic conditions Sources.
Abstract: Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Contents: 1. Legal and economic documents; revised ed. 2012 -- 2. Letters and Buddhist texts -- 3. Plates.