A BILINGUAL GRAECO-ARAMAIC EDICT BY ASOKA (ASHOKA) The First Greek Inscription Discovered in Afghanistan
by Asoka & G. Pugliese Carratelli & G. Garbini (Foreword by G. Tucci; Introduction by U. Scerrato)
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Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1964. Softcover. Pages uncut. Very light browning to wraps. ; The inscription came to light during digging work in April 1957, a few miles west of present-day Kandahar. The bilingual inscription is the most westerly proof of Buddhism yet found, and the most easterly of Greek inscriptions, and the first complete Aramaic inscription discovered in the area reaching to the Indus. ; Serie Orientale Roma XXIX; 62 pages .
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- Title
- A BILINGUAL GRAECO-ARAMAIC EDICT BY ASOKA (ASHOKA) The First Greek Inscription Discovered in Afghanistan
- Author
- Asoka & G. Pugliese Carratelli & G. Garbini (Foreword by G. Tucci; Introduction by U. Scerrato)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Greece, Aramaic, Alexander The Great, Classical Greek & Roman, Greek History, Indology, India, Afghanistan
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- Archaeology; Indology;
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