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Asoka & G. Pugliese Carratelli & G. Garbini (Foreword By G. Tucc, I, Introduction By U. Scerrato)

A BILINGUAL GRAECO-ARAMAIC EDICT BY ASOKA (ASHOKA) The First Greek Inscription Discovered in Afghanistan Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, 1964

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Year of publication
1964
Author
Asoka & G. Pugliese Carratelli & G. Garbini (Foreword By G. Tucc, I, Introduction By U. Scerrato)
Publishers
Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente
Keyword
Greece Aramaic Alexander The Great Classical Greek & Roman Greek, History Indology India Afghanistan
Cover description
Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Binding description
Softcover

Description

Pages uncut. Very light browning to wraps. ; The inscription came to light during digging work in April 1957, a few miles west of present-day Kandahar. The bilingual inscription is the most westerly proof of Buddhism yet found, and the most easterly of Greek inscriptions, and the first complete Aramaic inscription discovered in the area reaching to the Indus. ; Serie Orientale Roma XXIX; 62 pages