阿富汗贝格拉姆宝藏的年代与性质

引论公元1～2世纪,罗马帝国涌现出一批优秀的地理学著作,如斯特拉波(Strabo)的《地理书》、梅拉(P.Mela)的《地方志》、马林(Marinus)的《地理学导论》和托勒密(C.Ptolemy)的《地理志》等等。书中对东方世界的描述令人瞩目1]。最让人惊叹的是保存至今的托勒密世界地图,上面不仅标出许多印

The Date and Nature of the Begram Treasure in Afghanistan

In the late 1930s,the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan excavated two sealed rooms at Begram Site,in which lots of exotic objects from Rome,India and China were found. Most of the scholars regarded them as a royal treasure of Kushan Empire in the 1st to mid 3rd century AD. However,the view was challenged by the evidences from typology,stratigraphy,numismatics and literature. According to them,a conclusion could be drawn that the Begram finds were the last goods of a Roman trading station,which...