Afghanistan Exhibition

UN representative : Sotirios Mousouris

Taliban destroyed 2,500 works of art, 2 statues in Bamiyan
Viktor Sarianidi : 21,618 gold, silver & ivory objects in the 6 tombs
Parapamisadai
Ai Khanum : acropolis 60 m higher than surroundings, abandoned ~ 130 B.C.
1.

Tepe Fullol (N of Kabul)

200 km from Sari Sang Quetta Treasure

2200 1900 B.C. gold goblet

2. Ai Khanum (probably Alexandria-on-Oxus Oxiana)

145 BC Greeks driven out, but the Greek Kingdom south of Hindu Kush held out for another century
1000 cities of Greek Bactria, everything but olives would grow. Easternmost extremity of the Bactrian
plain. Corinthian capital was first found. 300 BC Seleucos founded it, Kokcha river sun-dried bricks
royal city hall with 18 Corinthian columns 60 Doric columns antefixes local soft limestone
gymnasium theater(the easternmost of its kind in all Hellenistic world) had spacious loggias, honorary
seats were located halfway up the rows of seats Hermes Heracles Hestia Cybele temple with niches
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Sarcophagus of Kineas who had been mandated to found the city Philosopher Clearchos of Soli, a pupil
of Aristotle author Megasthenes who wrote about Greeks of India some pages of a lost treatise of
Aristotle mosaics acroliths equatorial sundial iron armour Megarian bowls Eucratidia
gold ingots from melted down objects
Exceptional fertility of the region of Bactria (except olives)
The main legacy of Hellenism to the arts of Central Asia was the modeling of statues in clay or stucco
Funerary monument of Kineas: Clearchos donated a copy of the Delphic Precepts to the town after
having them engraved at the most sacred spot in the city, the temenos, or sacred precinct of the
founder Kineas
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Clearchos transcribed them carefully, coming here to display them so that they shine in such a distant
place, in the sacred precinct of Kineas

AS A CHILD LEARN GOOD MANNERS

AS A YOUNG MAN LEARN TO CONTROL THY PASSIONS
IN THE MIDDLE AGE BE JUST
IN OLD AGE GIVE GOOD ADVICE, THEN DIE WITHOUT REGRETS

SUNDIALS one is a block of limestone shaped like a throne supported by two lion legs in front. The seat
of the throne forms the dial face, together with 11 vertical hour lines along which travels the
le gthe i ga dshorte i gshado ofthest lereprese ti gtheearthsa is
At the summer & winter solstices the shadow reaches the two outermost curves whereas at the spring
and autumn equinoxes it stands on the central line. The curves show that this sundial was designed for a
latitude between 38 and 35 north values that take in Ai Khanum. This was the most widespread type of
sundial in ancient times
Another is made of a squared block of limestone that once stood on a horizontal base.

3. Begram
Alexandria ad Caucasum 1st cent. AD

ancient Kapisi

12,000 ft air is pure

Alexandria was a center of glass manufacture

The oldest representation of the lighthouse

porphyry vase

4.

Tillya Tepe

Hill of Gold

oasis of Sheberghan, 100 km W of Bactra

20,578 artifacts the fabled Bactrian Plain 100 AD The Golden Hoard of Bactria no wooden burial
chamber clandestine burials
AD 16 to 37 shape of heart common
leaf of sarsaparilla Sakas
Goddess Athena common also Aphrodite
to the Ionic system

Dionysus recognizable from the ivy

weight measures acc.