Bactrian Personal Names: Iranisches Personennamenbuch Band Iimitteliranische Personennamen Faszikel 7

by Nicholas Sims-Williams

Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of personal names, whose various linguistic origins - Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of course native Bactrian - mirror the variety of peoples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3700168411
• ISBN13: 9783700168416
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Length: 199 Pages