sunk relief
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sunk relief. Carved relief not projecting beyond the
naked of the surface on which it is carved, called
cavo rilievo or
intaglio rilevato.
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The Yuezhi; origin, migration and the conquest of northern Bactria.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 490 words
; ...migration and the conquest of northern Bactria. Benjamin, Craig G.R. Brepols Publishers...in the conquest of the former Greco-Bactria state. He ends his account in 125 BCE...but before they crossed that river into Bactria proper. He does not provide an index...
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The Central Asian dimension of the symbolic system in Bactria and Margiana. (Special Section)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...The Oxus and its iconography The Bronze Age civilization of Bactria and Margiana emerged after 2500 BC from the local cultures...language (forms and style) if not beliefs, and deeply rooted in Bactria-Margiana. In this respect, the symbolic system of the Oxus...
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Southern Bactria and northern India before Islam: a review of archaeological reports.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Despite a huge and ever-increasing bibliography, the history of northern India from the death of Asoka to the first inroads of the Moslem armies is still imperfectly known. About its social history we can only state that new peoples kept coming from Iran and Central Asia and were, in the course of
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UNKNOWN CIVILIZATION UNEARTHED.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/9/1990; 700+ words
; ...entirely unsuspected civilization, known as Bactria, flourished in south-central Soviet Asia...the world market, until they too struck Bactria. Now, some scholars are saying that Bronze Age Bactria should be added to the list of the four...
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MAJOR BRONZE AGE FIND ASIAN DIGS REVEAL UNKNOWN BACTRIAN CIVILIZATION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...entirely unsuspected civilization, known as Bactria, flourished in south-central Soviet Asia...the world market, until they too struck Bactria. Now, some scholars are saying that Bronze Age Bactria should be added to the list of the four...
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Gold keeper foiled theft by Taliban.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 11/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...Taliban. The fate of the Golden Hoard of Bactria, a collection of 20,000 artifacts...northern Afghanistan, which was known as Bactria when Alexander the Great conquered the...did not ask about the Golden Hoard of Bactria, for a simple reason, Askersai said...
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The bronze Age khanates of Central Asia. (Special Section)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...sparsely populated regions of Margiana and Bactria. Prior to 2200 BC, these regions were...Civilization were established to the east in Bactria. Within a century the peoples of the...time in the settlements of Margiana and Bactria around 2000 BC. Tolstov and early notice...
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Realms beyond the mountains: notes on Kenneth Rexroth.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the last of all Greek kingdoms, that of Bactria, and turned it into remarkable verse...Greek kings extended their dominion from Bactria (now Afghanistan) across the mountains...incomplete and highly conjectural The Greeks in Bactria and India, Rexroth had contrived to protect...
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'ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S IMPACT IN ANCIENT AND MODERN AFGHANISTAN' TOPIC OF LECTURE ON APRIL 11
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/3/2006; 501 words
; ...on Alexander the Great and Hellenistic Bactria. He also specializes in ancient military...Accounts of Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria strikingly preview news reports from today...legacy back and forth between ancient Bactria and modern Afghanistan; and he will explain...
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After Ashoka.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...reunification, however, was short-lived. Bactria, a neighboring Greek kingdom, had once...empire. Then, from 208 to 206 B.C., Bactria had grown stronger as it successfully...his successors were unable to prevent Bactria from conquering some distant regions of...
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Bactria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bactria , ancient Greek kingdom in central Asia...stoutly, but they were subdued in 328. Bactria took on Greek culture, became quasi...resisted attempts (208-206 BC) to bring Bactria back into the empire. Euthydemus' son...
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Turkistan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Great through S Turkistan, the ancient Bactria, which was colonized by Greeks after his...was divided between Parthia in the west and Bactria in the east. Parthia expanded eastward at Bactria's expense. Bactria around 130 BC was bordered...
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Alexander the Great
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Ecbatana, which submitted in 330, and on to Bactria. There the satrap Bessus, a cousin of...himself king. Alexander went on through Bactria and captured and executed Bessus. He...Nevertheless Alexander conquered all of Bactria and Sogdiana after hard fighting and then...
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Kanishka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...five central Asian nomadic tribes that conquered the region of Bactria, which is now part of northern Afghanistan. Here the Kushans...Greek and Indian cultural influences that had developed in Bactria. The tribe eventually became the most powerful group in the...
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Antiochus III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...212 and 204 he campaigned in Armenia, regained Parthia and Bactria as vassal kingdoms, and led expeditions into the Kabul Valley...For background material see W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India (1938; 2d ed. 1951), and M. Rostovtzeff, The...
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