Recent Excavations of Sanjar-Shah and the New Sources for the Study of the Sogdian Culture
Thursday, February 22, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Young Research Library - Library Presentation Room 11348
Michael Shenkar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
See below for additional information.
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Additional Information
The lecture presents some preliminary results of the excavations conducted at the site of Sanjar-Shah during 2014-2017.
Sanjar-Shah is located 12 km to the east of the Sogdian city of Panjikent in modern Tajikistan and seems to be roughly contemporary with it (5th-8th centuries CE).
Michael Shenkar is a senior lecturer in Pre-Islamic Iranian Studies at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. An archaeologist by training, he is currently the director (together with Dr. Sharof Kurbanov of the Tajik Academy of Sciences) of the Sanjar-Shah Excavations Project (Tajikistan). His research interests include the archaeology, art, and religions of the pre-Islamic Iranian world with a particular focus on religious iconography and the Sogdian civilization.