Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Author:   Rachel Mairs (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   75
Publication Date:   30 June 2026
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Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia


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This Element examines – for the first time in a single volume – the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara). It examines how successive invaders of this region, from Persia, Greece and India, left their linguistic and textual mark. It reviews the surviving Hellenistic-period written material from archaeological sites in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan in Aramaic, Greek and Prakrit.

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Author:   Rachel Mairs (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009782104


ISBN 10:   100978210
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   30 June 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Aramaic, Elamite and Iranian Languages in the Achaemenid East; 3. Greek and its uses in Hellenistic Central Asia; 4. Afterlives: Text and language under the Kushan Empire; 5. Conclusion.

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