What a stunning #Bactrian coin!! Thanks for sharing @chapps.bsky.social
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Reposting due to faulty DOI
This issue has an open access article by Nicholas Sims-Williams on #Bactrian:
Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.
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This issue has an open access article by Nicholas Sims-Williams on #Bactrian:
Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.
doi.org/10.1163/1572....
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A drawing of a red inflatable camel with a barrel-like body and inflatable humps, with a background of erupting volcanoes.
For @volcanthrope.bsky.social, a concept piece of his #Camerupt 'sona as an #inflatable toy. Perhaps some thermal expansion has taken place?
IRL he's limited to about 2.5-3m long...what would it be like to be wedged between the humps, though?
#camel #bactrian #pokemon #furryart #wip
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A drawing of an inflatable volcano camel pokemon. It looks massive. It's got red fur, green eyes, and a concerningly smug expression--must be the thermal expansion.
Rob the #Camerupt ( @volcanthrope.bsky.social ), as an #inflatable toy. I thought I'd post another WIP.
I've been finding myself having to freehand backgrounds more and more as of late, since the art looks frustratingly incomplete without them.
#camel #bactrian #pokemon #furryart #wip
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A beautiful #Bactrian "princess" From Central Asia, created towards the end of the 3rd century to the beginning of 2nd millennium BCE made of Chlorite and calcite (the face)
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Here is an example of #Bactrian writing:
The Surkh Kotal inscription (SK4). 2 c. CE. Surkh Kotal, Afghanistan.
Full page: tinyurl.com/37ta9zku
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#Bactrian did not use Xi Ξ and Psi Ψ.
An additional letter Sho ϸ was used as #Greek lacks the sound.
Here are also cursive variants of the letters.
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#Bactrian was the result of the #Greek script being appropriated to write the Bactrian language in the #Hellenistic era in Central #Asia, Alexander the Great's easternmost realms.
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Ornate seal, rounded shape, fixed onto parchment. Image © Khalili Collection, All rights reserved.
The ornate seal, the parchment writing surface, and the cursive #Bactrian script reveal a sophisticated documentary culture that was flourishing 🌸 9/10
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#Manichaean was used to write Middle and Early Modern #Persian, #Parthian, #Sogdian, #Bactrian, #Uyghur, and #Tocharian.
Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
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Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Heliokles I Dikaios AR Tetradrachm (35 mm, 17.10 gm, 11h). Circa 145-130 BC.
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