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Art and Archaeology by Aleksandr Naymark
Excavations of the fortifications revealed three major construction phases, adding up to a width of more than 10 m at the base of the fortifications. There is no evidence for towers or bastions. In the central part of the site we encountered a monumental masonry block into which was cut a series of pits of varying dimensions. The larger pits seem to represent pit-houses, while others seem to be economic pits. C14 data range between the end of the 5th century BCE and the very beginning of the 2nd century CE. The ceramic inventory from the site – including the first known imitation of a Megarian bowl in Sogdiana – features a few Yaz III examples, but has otherwise strong parallels with the complexes of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic sites in Central and Southern Sogdiana, Choresmia, Bactria, and Margiana. Bearing in mind the early stage of our investigations, we suggest that the site was first established as a border fortress on one of the main routes between Sogdiana and Chorasmia, most likely during the very end of the 4th or the first half of the 3rd century, that is during the early Seleucid period. During its last occupation phase the summit of the site seems to feature a small agro-pastoral settlement, dating to the 1st century CE or – at the very latest – to the very beginning of the 2nd century CE. Although preliminary in character our results from 2016 shed new light on the Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic periods in western Sogdiana, which are – up to now – poorly investigated.
The appendix is devoted to the finds of Hellenistic coins in the Bukharan oasis: a drachm with the types of Alexander, coppers of Antiochus I and Antiochus II/Diodotus, silver coins of Diodotus, Euthydemus, Demetrius, Eukratides, and Heliocles as well as Takhmachtepa hoard containing tetradrachms of Diodotus, Euthydemus, and Agathocles. Although the sample of Hellenistic coins is still very small, its composition suggests that the history of the Bukharan oasis followed the same path as the rest of Sogdiana, which was controlled by Seleucids until the middle of the 3rd century and then passed for a short time to Bactrian Greeks, who lost it no later than at the very beginning of the reign of Euthydemus (ca. 230 BCE).
being used for centuries. The images and legends deteriorated
over time. This paper considers why imitations of earlier coins
were used without making use of high-quality prototypes. A
series of ‘mules’ with a portrait of Hyrcodes on the obverse
and imitations of types of Antiochus on the reverse may
provide an answer. Around the start of the first century CE,
a mint that previously struck one-sided Antiochus imitations
started to place a high-quality portrait of a ruler and a legend
ΥΡΚΩΔΟΥ on the previously blank face. The reverse dies with
a distorted image of a horse were produced long after the highquality portrait occupied the obverse. This image must have
been important and was kept to provide a smooth transition
to new types. The mint masters seem to have copied coins in
circulation because they were recognized, perhaps as a means
of maintaining trust in the imitating coinage
is a video recording of the talk on the page of the Oriental Numismatic Society, North American Branch, on facebook (for the link see right above these text lines)