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133630000. Kritt, Brian, From Aï Khanoum to Samarqand. Seleucid Coins in Central Asia [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 13]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2021 Hardbound with dust jacket. 106 total pp. (GR 363).
Kritt, Brian, From Aï Khanoum to Samarqand. Seleucid Coins in Central Asia [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 13]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2021 Hardbound with dust jacket. 106 total pp. (GR 363).
From the author's synopsis:
"The recent publication of ancient coins found at the site of ancient Samarqand sheds remarkable new light onthe little-known history of Sogdiana in the period following the death of Alexander the Great. Scholars have attempted to understand the status of this region during the period of the Seleucids and their Greek successors in Bactria, posing and unable to decide upon theories of whether Sogdiana fell under the control of these Greek dynasties.
Lacking any definitive ancient accounts, they turned to numismatics to try to decide the issue. Unfortunately, the finds of coins from the relevant period had been scant, and misunderstood. The new finds at Samarqand provide a dramatic parade of bronze coins struck at the Seleucid colony at Aï Khanoum in Bactria, spanning the entire period of the Seleucid presence in Bactria, and beyond. The succession of the known types of these coins is remarkably well represented at Samarqand, providing the first detailed picture of the relationship between Seleucid Bactria and contemporary Sogdiana.
The results include the discovery of a Greek colony at Samarqand in the Seleucid period, with extensive contacts and interaction with Aï Khanoum. The lack of such finds elsewhere in Sogdiana indicates that the Seleucids had no substantive contact with the non-Greek areas, and thus had no interest in the conquering of all of Sogdiana.
Another important piece of the historical picture is revealed by the results of the recent excavations at the archeological site of the Uzundara Fortress in southern Sogdiana. The extensive finds of bronze coins of Euthydemus at Uzundara show the status of affairs involving the Greeks and the uprisings of natives from the north in the period of the invasion of Bactria by the Seleucid king Antiochus III during his eastern campaign.
These and many other ramifications of these new coin finds are explored in Part A of this book.
Part B is an updated recording of the many new gold and silver coins of Aï Khanoum that have come tolight since the publication of The Seleucid Mint of Aï Khanoum in 2016, with the identification of the new dies, and their rational incorporation into the corpus which was established in that treatise."
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133650000. Kritt, Brian. Essays on Coins of the Seleucid East [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 15]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2023. Hardbound with dust jacket. 94 total pages and 27 plates. (GR 365).
Kritt, Brian. Essays on Coins of the Seleucid East [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 15]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2023. Hardbound with dust jacket. 94 total pages and 27 plates. (GR 365).
From the author's synopsis:
"This new book presents essays on topics related to coins of various types in the Seleucid east.
Here are the basic contents of the essays, by chapter:
1. New imitative coinages from Sogdiana, copying Seleucid coins from Bactria, particularly
those which copy Greek names and monograms.
2. Identification of the crude “Crab/bee” bronzes from Samarqand as Scythian burial
Tokens.
3. New finds of coins supporting the theory of directed transmission of Aï Khanoum
bronzes to Samarqand.
4. A challenge to the interpretation of an Antiochus III Aï Khanoum bronze found in
Ustrushana as supporting the presence of forces of Antiochus near Samarqand.
5. A new Diodotus I bronze coinage of Aï Khanoum, with “Diodotus” inscription,
matching that of some Diodotus I gold staters from the Vaisali hoard.
6. A hoard of Antiochus III bronzes, closely co-ordinated with the movements of his
forces on his eastern anabasis.
7. The presence on an Antiochus I bronze coin of Susa of a small, intentionally inconspicuous
representation of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great, presumably placed there by a local Persian die
cutter at the mint of Susa. This Persian partisan added a traditional feature to the image: the rows
of pairs of horns of divinity, which had been current at Susa for buildings, at least since the
fourth millennium BC, and for millennia afterwards. This defiant act took place about twenty years
after the Persid revolt from the Seleucids in the south, which led to Persid control of Pasargadae, and the Cyrus Tomb. This scenario is supported by an earlier example of a Susa die cutter, who
secreted, inside a monogram on a Seleucus I tetradrachm, an image of the horns of a Persid fire
temple, accompanied by an Aramaic letter."
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