Bird-Priests in Central Asian Tombs of 6th-Century China and Their Significance in the Funerary Realm
Penélopé Riboud

Evidence of Jainism in Afghanistan and Kashmir in Ancient Times
Pratapaditya Pal

Architectural Cultures and Empire: The Ghurids in Northern India (ca. 1192–1210)
Alka Patel

The Zoroastrian Towers of Silence in the ex-Portuguese Colony of Diu
Mehrdad Shokoohy

Dangerous Ideas: Julian’s Persian Campaign, Its Historical Background, Motivation, and Objectives
David Frendo

Prosopographical Notes: The Iranian Nobility during and after the Macedonian Conquest
M. Rahim Shayegan

Cataphractus and kamāndār: Some Thoughts on the Dynamic Evolution of Heavy Cavalry and Mounted Archers in Iran and Central Asia
D. T. Potts

Where are the Sogdian Magi?
Frantz Grenet; with Samra Azarnoush

Gāndhārī in the Worlds of India, Iran, and Central Asia
Richard Salomon

Some Bactrian Terms for Realia
Nicholas Sims-Williams

A Note on the Schøyen Copper Scroll: Bactrian or Indian?
Étienne de la Vaissière

Ancient Indian Eras: An Overview
Harry Falk


Reviews

Lenz. Gandhāran Avadānas: British Library Kharoshthi Fragments 1–3 and 21 and Supplementary Fragments A–C (Yost)

Lurje. Personal Names in Sogdian Texts. R. Schmitt, H. Eichner, B. G. Fragner, and V. Sadovski, eds., Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Bd. 2, Fasc. 8 (Yoshida)

Pal. The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection (Stadtner)

VOL. 21 = 218 pp.
Published March 2012


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