Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan: I
Subtitle: Legal and Economic Documents (Studies in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: May 10, 2001
Language: eng; ave
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780197275023
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Language family studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Indo-Iranian Literature; Manuscripts; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Other Indo-European languages; Afghanistan; Africa; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; Middle Eastern; Bactrian language; Texts
Description: 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.