'Afghanistan Through the Ages — Voices in Stone, Script, and Story', convened by Arezou Azad and Matteo de Chiara @inalco.fr, continues tonight with Laurianne Sève on ‘Nouvelles Recherches sur Aï Khanoum’. Use QR code for Zoom link. bit.ly/Afghanistanseries
#seminarseries #Afghanistan #aikhanoum
Ai-Khanoum: Restored 3D view of the city with, in the foreground, the theater featuring a wooden stage building. In the middle ground, from left to right: the propylaea (monumental entrance gateway) leading to the palace complex, opening onto the main street through a portico with four columns set in antis (i.e., placed between two projecting side walls); at center, the heroon of Kineas (a commemorative shrine dedicated to the city’s legendary founder); and to the right, the ‘royal’ mausoleum with its stone burial chamber. The palace colonnade rises in the background. 3D reconstruction by O. Nishizawa (NHK-TAISEI). Source: Figure 2 from: Lecuyot, G. & Nishizawa, O. (2013), Une collaboration franco-japonaise à la restitution 3D de la ville d’Aï Khanoum, HAL open-access archiveꜛ. Used here for educational and critical commentary under fair use provisions. All rights remain with the original rights holders.
#AiKhanoum, a #Hellenistic city at the #Oxus, exemplifies deep cultural hybridity: #Greek urbanism, art and inscriptions fused with #Iranian and #Indian contexts. While direct #Buddhist remains are limited, its artistic and intellectual milieu helped seed the […]
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Thrilled that my third piece as a contributor for @digitalorientalist.bsky.social was just posted.
Have a look to see how #DeepResearch AI models identify the #AiKhanoum foot.
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#AI #AgenticAI #AIBias #ancienthistory #centralasia #hellenistichistory #classics
