Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum. LXII. Sogdians, their Precursors, Contemporaries and Heirs. Based on proceedings of the conference “Sogdians at Home and Abroad” held in memory of Boris Marshak (1933–2006). The State Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers, 2013. – 504 pp. Ills. XXVIII, [8] pages of colour plates.
The publication includes proceedings of the academic conference. The main focus of this work is Early Medieval Sogdia with its religion, archaeology and monumental art. Other articles are dedicated to earlier states of Central Asia, close and distant Sogdians’ neighbours, the Turkic people who were brought up on Sogdian culture, manifestation of Sogdian prototypes in the arts of the Islamic times and the Yaghnobi people who currently speak a language close to the Sogdian dialect.
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Sogdians, their Precursors, Contemporaries and Heirs.
