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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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133640000. Kritt, Brian. Andragoras, Double Darics, and the coinage of Alexandria on the Oxus [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 14]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2022. Hardbound with dust jacket. 128 total pages and 50 plates. (GR 364).
Kritt, Brian. Andragoras, Double Darics, and the coinage of Alexandria on the Oxus [Classical Numismatic Studies No. 14]. Lancaster, PA, and London, 2022. Hardbound with dust jacket. 128 total pages and 50 plates. (GR 364).
From the author's synopsis:
"There is a series of Bactrian coins that have baffled numismatists since their discovery in the nineteenth century, the “Sophytes sequence” – a variety of coins, including imitations of Athenian coin types, and others, with groups of coins each bearing one of the names: Andragoras or Sophytes. There are ambiguous references to the first name in literary sources, as well as a name similar to the second. These sources however, are very misleading, and difficult to relate to the coins, which so far have resisted independent dating from their intrinsic numismatic identities.
In The Seleucid Mint of Aï Khanoum (2016), the present author happened upon two different coin types of the Sophytes sequence which were directly copied from datable Seleucid coins from the mint of Aï Khanoum, providing the first chronological fixed points for the Sophytes sequence. The more comprehensive study in this book has yielded a number of new connections of the Sophytes sequence coinagesto those of Aï Khanoum, and more generally, to the Seleucids. This has led to a complete and detailed new absolute chronology for the entire Sophytes sequence, and all of its component series.
A previously known coin type is now shown for the first time to be an unrecognized series of the Sophytes sequence: Bactrian versions of Persian style gold double darics, mostly from finds in the Oxus river valley, and India. These new coins have control links to various points in the Sophytes sequence. Some examples extend back in time to a point before the beginning of the previously known (silver) coins of the Sophytes sequence, and have numerous control connections to the Seleucid coinages of Babylon from the end of the fourth century.
This reveals a direct Seleucid intervention in the establishing of the coinages of the mint of the Sophytes sequence, including the transmission of the Babylon gold double daric type, originally created by Alexander the Great at Babylon, to this pre-existing city on the Oxus river. All evidence points to that city being the long sought Bactrian colony of Alexander, Alexandria on the Oxus river.
Many related historical details also follow from this analysis, including direct involvements of the Seleucids with this city for decades, until the outbreak of hostilities put an end to this relationship, and to the reign of the last known ruler of the colony, Sophytes."
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