"Bactrian alabaster dish, 1st millennium BC". The Bactrian culture is the modern archaeological designation of the Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to approximately 2200-1700 BC. C., and in which it is located today in Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan. The archaeological site, Bactria-Marguiana, was discovered and named by the Uzbek archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi in 1976. Bactria was the Greek name for the area of Bactra (now Balh), which is now north of Afghanistan, and Marguiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrap of Margu, the capital that is now Merv, located in Turkmenistan. With its impressive material culture including monumental architecture, bronze tools, ceramics, and semi-precious stone jewelry, the Bactro-Marghian complex exhibits many signs of civilization. There are numerous stamps carved in stone that have been produced by this culture. Sculpturally, the idols, whether stylized (cylinders and discs) or anthropomorphic, of which multiple variants have been found, are the most remarkable works of art. Its meaning is still unknown, and even more so in the case of these geometric idols.
Provenance: Joseph Klein private collection, formed in New York between 1940 and 1980. 6"
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