ايران سراي

B. D. Kochnev  Memorial  Seminar in    Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics

Eighth Meeting, March 12 , 2016

Hofstra University, CV Starr Hall, room 209

Session 1

10:00 – 11:00 am

Alexei Gorin (Institute of Fine Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

“Graeco-Bactrian and Other Early Coins from the Fortress of Uzundara near Iron Gates.”

Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)

“Early Silver Coinages of Soghd: an Attempt on Systematic View” Coffee break 11:00 – 11:15 pm

Session 2

11:15 – 12:15 pm

Robert Bracey (British Museum, London, United Kingdom)

"The Early Hunnic Kings of Sind: Some Metallurgy"

Andrei Omel’chenko (State Hermitage Museum, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia)

“New Kushano-Sasanian Materials from the Excavations of Paykand in the Bukharan Oasis”

Konstantin Kravtsov (State Hermitage Museum, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia) Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)

“The Camels of Bukhara: Copper Coinage of Sogdian West in the First Half of the 7th century”

Lunch 12:45 –13:30  pm

Session 3

13:30 – 14:30 pm

Michael Bates (American Numismatic Society, New York)

“Coins and Trade in the Early Islamic Centuries”

Stefan Heidemann (Asien Afrika Institut, Universität Hamburg)

"Islamic Law in Creation and Breaking up of the Monetary Union of the Early Islamic Empire" Coffee break 14:30 – 14:45 pm

Session 4

14:45 – 16:00 pm

Davlathoja Dovudi (National Museum of Tajikistan, Dushanbe)

“New hoard of Samanid Fulus from Hissar, Tajikistan”

Abdullah Ghouchani (Iran-e-Bastan Museum, Tehran)

“Golden Hoard of Atabegs of Fars of the First Half of the 12 century CE”

Michael O'Neal (Washington, DC)

“The Ghazna Coinage of the Ghūrid Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ḥusayn Jahān-Sūz” Coffee break 16:00 – 16:15 pm

Session 5

16:15 – 17:15 pm

Konstantin Kravtsov (State Hermitage Museum, Sankt-Peterburg)

“A Few Remarks on the Imitations of Tabaristan Dirhams.”

Roman Kovalev (The College of New Jersey, Ewing) “At the Origins of the Cross Depicted on Rus’ ‘Bird’ and ‘Cross’ Type Imitation Dirhams”

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