• Ai-Khanoum (/ ˈhɑːnjuːm/, meaning 'Lady Moon'; Uzbek Latin: Oyxonim) is the archaeological site of a Hellenistic city in Takhar Province, Afghanistan...
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    The Ai-Khanoum plaque is an ancient Greco-Bactrian disk discovered at the archaeological site of Ai-Khanoum in Takhar Province, Afghanistan. This Hellenistic...
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  • discovered ancient artefacts of Ai Khanom and invited Princeton-archaeologist Daniel Schlumberger with his team to examine Ai-Khanoum. It was soon found to be...
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    Antiochus II Theos. Recent analysis strongly suggests that the Greek city of Ai-Khanoum, located in Takhar Province, northern Afghanistan, at the confluence of...
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    only a few such cities have been excavated such as Ai-Khanoum and Bactra. The city of Ai-Khanoum, in north-eastern Afghanistan, had all the hallmarks...
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    heritage and artistic proficiency as seen with the remains of the city of Ai-Khanoum, which was founded as a Greco-Bactrian city. In modern-day Pakistan, several...
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    colonies in neighbouring Bactria, such as Alexandria on the Oxus (modern Ai-Khanoum) and Alexandria of the Caucasus (medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram). After...
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  • provided by the discoveries made at Ai Khanoum, and as some claim, demonstrated how the Greek artists of Ai Khanoum not only had an affinity for the Greek...
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    Herakles statuette. Ai-Khanoum. 2nd century BC. Bracelet with horned female busts. Ai-Khanoum, 2nd century BC. Stone recipients from Ai-Khanoum. 3rd-2nd century...
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  • eastern cultures, and is thought to have traveled to the Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum (Alexandria on the Oxus) in modern Afghanistan. Clearchus wrote extensively...
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    evidence for the period comes largely from excavations of the city of Ai-Khanoum, where this period saw the expansion of irrigation networks, the construction...
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    Eucratides I. Eucratides was the last known ruler of Ai-Khanoum, which was also his capital city. Ai-Khanoum was a prosperous Greek city in Bactria and excavations...
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    kingdom's capital. Holt identifies "Mint A" with Ai Khanoum, while Kritt prefers some other location near Ai Khanoum. Simon Glenn emphasises the that "we do not...
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    Seleucus Nicator (312–281 BC), Ai Khanoum. Antiochus I (281–261 BC), Ai Khanoum. Antiochos II (261–246 BC), Ai Khanoum. Diodotus I (256–238 BC). Diodotus...
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    circumstance that no coins of Demetrius II have been found in the ruins of Ai Khanoum, which was presumably destroyed during the reign of Eucratides I. Demetrius...
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    Afrasiab murals Stamp seal (BM 119999) Seal of Khingila Siberian Ice Maiden Ai-Khanoum plaque Saksanokhur gold buckle Boar hunter (Hermitage Museum) Siberian...
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    original text contained all 147. Another inscription, discovered in 1966 at Ai-Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan, presents the final five maxims of Stobaeus...
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    Indian-standard silver drachmas were discovered at the administrative quarters of Ai-Khanoum from a pilgrim's water vessel by a team of French archaeologists. These...
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    sculpture, metal objects, and coins rescued from the French excavations at Ai-Khanoum and Surkh Kotal; the spectacular collection of objects found at a merchants...
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    475–450 BC A hermaic sculpture of an old man, probably a philosopher. Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, 2nd century BC Male and female Baroque herms at the Rubenshuis...
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    palace of Khalchayan. On the ruins of ancient Hellenistic cities such as Ai-Khanoum, the Kushans are known to have built fortresses. Various sculptures and...
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    the Qin Terracotta Army. Portrait of a man, Ai-Khanoum, 3rd-2nd century BC. Statue of Herakles from Ai-Khanoum, 3rd-2nd century BC. Clay and pigment head...
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    contemporary scholars. Archaeological evidence reveals that the city of Ai-Khanoum was besieged around 225 BC, an event which Holt connects with Euthydemus'...
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    Afrasiab murals Stamp seal (BM 119999) Seal of Khingila Siberian Ice Maiden Ai-Khanoum plaque Saksanokhur gold buckle Boar hunter (Hermitage Museum) Siberian...
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    Gandhara descended directly from the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum. In 1992 the Taliban looted and then set Tapa Shotor on fire. In view...
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    century BC Hellenistic gargoyle representing a comical cook-slave from Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan During a refurbishment of Paisley Abbey in the early 1990s...
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    an image of Vasudeva-Krishna, was found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum in the Kunduz area of Afghanistan, minted by Agathocles of Bactria. In...
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    Hellenistic world represented by the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and its capital Ai Khanoum. The language of these edicts is Pali and the script is Brahmi. The inscriptions...
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    Afrasiab murals Stamp seal (BM 119999) Seal of Khingila Siberian Ice Maiden Ai-Khanoum plaque Saksanokhur gold buckle Boar hunter (Hermitage Museum) Siberian...
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    under the reign of Diodotus I, and particularly in the border city of Ai-Khanoum, not far away in the northern part of Afghanistan. According to Sircar...
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