The Oxus route toward the south: Persian legacy and Hellenistic innovations in Central Asia

M Minardi - Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2018 - brill.com
In this contribution, in view of the striking evidence from the site of Akchakhan-kala which is
casting a completely new light on the archaeology of the Chorasmian polity and the Central …

Elite, wine consumption and status symbols in Ancient Chorasmia

M Minardi - Ancient civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2016 - brill.com
This paper analyses two objects of Hellenistic taste related to wine consumption unearthed
during the archaeological excavations of Akchakhan-kala in Ancient Chorasmia: a …

[PDF][PDF] Achaemenid 'echoes' at Akchakhan-kala, Chorasmia, and their broader significance for Central Asia

M Minardi - Journal of Asian Civilizations, 2020 - unora.unior.it
In recent years the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition (KAE) carried out archaeological
fieldwork at the royal Chorasmian seat of Akchakhan-kala unearthing a large corpus of wall …

[PDF][PDF] The ancient chorasmian unbaked-clay modelled sculptures: hellenistic cultural 'impacts' on an eastern iranian polity

M Minardi - Religion, Society, Trade and Kingship. Art and …, 2020 - researchgate.net
The Eastern Iranian polity of Ancient Chorasmia was situated south of the Aral Sea in the
lower reaches of the Amu-Darya (the Greek Oxus), a fertile land surrounded by the Kara …

Notes on the Elaboration and Transmission of Iconographic Elements in Central Asia and India before the Kushans

M Minardi - East and West, 2021 - JSTOR
Il presente articolo tratta in dettaglio del significato iconografico dei “preti-uccello”
zoroastriani rinvenuti durante gli scavi del “Complesso Cerimoniale” del sito corasmio di …

[PDF][PDF] Silver Rhyton authenticity leading to the head of a female lion attributed to the Achaemenid period in the Hegmataneh Museum based on a comparative study

ZS Hosseini, MR Saeedi, ACA Khiz - Athar, 2022 - journal.richt.ir
Achaemenid rhytons as one of the most important archaeological data adorn many
museums around the world. However, many of these rhytons have not been obtained from …

Persian riders on a post-Achaemenid terracotta mould from the Bhir Mound, Taxila

M Minardi - Mesopotamia: rivista di archeologia, epigrafia e storia …, 2022 - torrossa.com
This article examines the iconography and the style of a fragmentary terracotta mould
unearthed in the early 2000s by a Pakistani archaeological team in a post-Mauryan context …

[PDF][PDF] International Advisory Board

G Banti, P Brancaccio, G Buffon, F Crevatin - researchgate.net
Tre importanti edifici monumentali di età achemenide sono stati scoperti nella regione del
Golfo Persico, nella contea del Dashtestan (Iran sud-occidentale) e vicino alla moderna città …

Michele Minardi.“A silver rhyton from Afghanistan held in the Cleveland Museum of Art and its historical context”

J Cuny - Abstracta Iranica. Revue bibliographique pour le …, 2018 - journals.openedition.org
1 L'exceptionnel rhyton en argent du musée de Cleveland est composé de deux parties
assemblées: une tête féminine surmontant une tête de buffle d'eau indien. Une inscription …