Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series I

Webfestschrift Marshak 2003

Marshak Festschrift, Eran ud Aneran
(Venice, 2006) ISBN: 8875431051

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Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina

Ēran ud Anērān

Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70^th Birthday

Compareti, Raffetta, Scarcia - Editors

Electronic Version (October 2003) - Updated August 2006

Transoxiana regrets the passing away of Boris Marshak (9 July 1933-28 July 2006) at the site of the archeological excavations of Ancient Panjikent.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the Electronic Version, (Paola Raffetta, USAL)
• Marshak's Bibliography and CV, Compiler: V. Shkoda
• S.T. Adylov, J.K. Mirzaahmedov
  On the history of the ancient town of Vardana and the Obavija Feud
• A. Alemany
  Sixth Century Alania: Between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran and the Turkic World [PDF document]
  Abstract
• C. Alyilmaz
  On the Bugut Inscription and Mausoleum Complex
• G. Azarpay
  Bullae from the Pahlavi Archive at the University of California, Berkeley
• G. Babayarov
  Sogd under Turkish Rule during VIth-VIIIth centuries (On Sogdian and Turkish Symbiosis)
• E. Bagaturia
  On the importance of the "Misimian's" - Kodori Route in the 1st-6th Centuries
• C. Benjamin
  The Yuezhi Migration and Sogdia
• Z. K. Bilici
  Bronze door-knockers of Cizre Great Mosque, A New Example
• I.V. Bondyrev
  Colonization of the Black Sea by the Ancient Greeks and its Ecological Consequences
• P. Callieri
  At the roots of the Sasanian royal imagery: The Persepolis Graffiti
• M. Compareti
  The Role of the Sogdian Colonies in the Diffusion of the Pearl Roundels Pattern
• M. Dobrovits
  "They called themselves Avar" - Considering the pseudo-Avar question in the work of Theophylaktos.
• N.V. Fedorova
  Volga Bulgaria Silver of the 10th-14th centuries (on materials of the Trans-Urals collections)
• M.S. Gadjiev
  Interpretation of a bronze figurine of warrior from Gigatl', Daghestan
• G. Gnoli
  Agathias and the date of Zoroaster
• F. Grenet
  La plus ancienne inscription sogdienne
• P.O. Harper
  Sasanian clay sealings in the Metropolitan Museum and in a New York private collection: Physical characteristics
  [Abstract only]
• T. Hayashi
  Sogdian Influences Seen on Turkic Stone Statues. Focusing on the Fingers Representations
• A. Heller
  Archeology of Funeral Rituals as revealed by Tibetan tombs of the 8^th to 9^th century
• J.Ya. Ilyasov
  Bronze ewers of craftsman Ahmad
• A.L. Juliano
  Chinese Pictorial Space at the Cultural Crossroads
• E. Kageyama
  Use and production of silks in Sogdiana
• Sh. Kamoliddin
  To the Question of Origin of the Name Hashimgird
• O. Karatay
  Contribution to the Debates on the Origin of the Medieval Bosnian Royal Dynasty Kotromanids
• S.G. Klyashtorny
  Ancient Turk Rock Inscriptions in the Talass Ala-Too: A Sogdian Word in an Old Turk Inscription
• J.A. Lerner
  An Overview of the Sealings on the Bactrian Documents in the Khalili Collection
  [Abstract only]
• Lin Ying
  Sogdians and Imitations of Byzantine Gold Coin Unearthed in the Heartland of China
• V.A. Livshits
  Three New Ostraca Documents from Old Nisa
• P.V. Lurje
  "Shapur's Will" in Bukhara
• M. Mode
  Heroic fights and dying heroes - The Orlat battle plaque and the roots of Sogdian art
• A. Naymark
  A Note on Sogdian Coroplastics - Two Ossuary Fragments from Afrasiab
• M. Nicolini-Zani
  Christiano-Sogdica: An Updated Bibliography on the Relationship between Sogdians and Christianity throughout Central Asia and into China
• T. Ôsawa
  Aspects of the relationship between the ancient Turkish and Sogdians -based on a stone statue with Sogdian inscription in Xinjiang-
  [Abstract]
• Igor V. Pyankov
  Scythian genealogical legend in «Rustamiada»
• Rong Xinjiang
  Sogdians around Ancient Tarim basin
  [Abstract only]
• E.V. Rtveladze
  Coins from Kish. 3rd-2nd Century BC - 8th Century AD
• K. Rubinson
  "Animal Style" Art and the Image of the Horse and Rider
  [Abstract]
• A. Santoro
  On The Two Intertwined Dragons from Pendzikent
• G.L. Semenov
  Dwelling houses of Bukhara in the Early Middle Ages
• B.Y. Stavisky
  Once more about peculiarities of the Sogdian Civilization of the 4th-10th Centuries
• K. Tanabe
  The identification of the King of kings in the upper register of the Larger Grotto, Taq-i Bustan - Ardashir III restated
• M. Tezcan
  Apar in Turkish Inscriptions of VIIIth Century and Armenian Sources [PDF]
  [Abstract]
• Tianshu Zhu
  The Sun God at Kizil
• X. Tremblay
  Sogdien et Avesta. Essais de grammaire compare'e des langues iraniennes VIII
  [Abstract]
• L. Venegoni
  Hülägü's Campaign in the West (1256-1260)
• S.A. Yatsenko
  The Late Sogdian Costume (the 5th - 8th cc. AD)