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This paper proposes a comparison between the votive plaques which were part of the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures, both dating for the main to the Achaemenid period. In a first section the questions of provenance and authenticity are discussed. Arguments adduced against the authenticity of some plaques are dismissed in the light of comparative material, some of which was recently discovered in safe...
Textual sources providing information on Zoroastrianism in pre‐Islamic Central Asia are scattered and few of them can be qualified as primary, i.e., contemporary and from the Central Asian people themselves. The historians of Alexander's campaigns provide limited but precious pieces of information on religious practices in Bactria and Sogdiana. Chinese accounts of the 7th–8th centuries are very detailed...
The only relatively reliable criterion allowing for a certain degree of latitude for attributing a date to the historical Zarathustra is a linguistic one based on the evident archaisms of the Gāthās, in comparison with the Young Avesta. The archaeological evidence is generally assumed to be of a negative character as far as the Old Avesta is concerned. The Young Avestan corpus, in the form that it...
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