Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 3/2012

CONTENTS
Vadim A. Alёkshin (Russia)
Vadim Mikhailovich Masson and his Contribution to the Development of Archaeology of Central Asia
Han Jianye (China)
“The Painted Pottery Road” and Early Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges
Muhammad Dandamayev (Russia)
Central Asian Soldiers in Achaemenid Babylonia
Alexander A. Sinitsyn (Russia)
ΣKYΘIΣTI XEIPOMAKTPON: Sophocles’ Record of the Extravagant Scythian Custom 49
Sabine Müller (Germany)
Ptolemaios und die Erinnerung an Hephaistion
Nicholas Victor Sekunda (Poland)
The Ptolemaic Guard Сavalry Regiment
Viktor N. Pilipko (Russia)
On the Material Culture of Hellenistic Akhal (Parthiene/Turkmenistan)
Jangar Ya. Ilyasov (Uzbekistan)
The Vulture on the Bone Plaque from the Orlat Cemetery
Frank L. Holt (USA)
When Did the Greeks Abandon Ai Khanoum?
Michał Marciak (Poland)
The historical geography of Gordyene
Marek J. Olbrycht (Poland)
The Political-Military Strategy of Artabanos/Ardawān II in AD 34–37
Martin Schottky (Germany)
Vorarbeiten zu einer Königsliste Kaukasisch-Iberiens. 1. Anfänge der Phranabaziden
Valentina Mordvintseva (Ukraine)
The Dating of Nogaichik Barrow and the Cultural identity of the Elite Burials of the North Pontic Region
Natalía Polosmak (Russia)
Embroideries on Garments from Kurgan 20 of the Noin-Ula Burial Ground
Oleksandr Symonenko (Ukraine)
On the Problem of „Huns-Sarmatians”
Yuri A. Vinogradov (Russia)
Excavations at Wadi Hajrya on the Soqotra Island (Yemen)
Alireza Qaderi, Farhang Khademi Nadooshan, Mehdi Mousavi Kouhpar (Iran)
Hormoz: a site belonging to Parthian to Islamic period in Khash County, Iran

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