Shayn of Dunhuang, Daughter of Sogdiana
An experimental piece just for me inspired by Miwnay of Sogdia
#oc #characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #art #dnd
An experimental piece just for me inspired by Miwnay of Sogdia
#oc #characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #art #dnd
July 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Shayn of Dunhuang, Daughter of Sogdiana
An experimental piece just for me inspired by Miwnay of Sogdia
#oc #characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #art #dnd
An experimental piece just for me inspired by Miwnay of Sogdia
#oc #characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #art #dnd
Please work on Sogdia guys they make really cool stuff I wanna read more about….
The Sogdian & Bactrian world 400-800 CE was a fascinating cosmopolitan & multicultural society of art loving rich merchants & cultured elite dealing in high politics & intrigue, reminiscent of Renaissance Italy. Yet a sum total of 10 scholars or less work on it! That is truly heartbreaking.
May 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Please work on Sogdia guys they make really cool stuff I wanna read more about….
keskiassyriaa, uusassyriaa, heettiä, luuvia, hieroglyfiluuvia, palajia, hurria, urartua, elamia, ugaritia, epigrafista muinaiseteläarabioita (saabilaista varianttia eritysesti), hepreaa, imperiaalista arameaa, foinikia/puunia, gatha avestaa, yasna avestaa, muinaispersiaa, kirjapahlavia, sogdia.
September 20, 2026 at 9:12 PM
keskiassyriaa, uusassyriaa, heettiä, luuvia, hieroglyfiluuvia, palajia, hurria, urartua, elamia, ugaritia, epigrafista muinaiseteläarabioita (saabilaista varianttia eritysesti), hepreaa, imperiaalista arameaa, foinikia/puunia, gatha avestaa, yasna avestaa, muinaispersiaa, kirjapahlavia, sogdia.
#Sogdian was originally used in #Sogdia, modern-day #Uzbekistan, to write Sogdian, #Chinese, #Sanskrit, and #Uyghur.
There is an older more cursive form and a newer more formal form.
Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
There is an older more cursive form and a newer more formal form.
Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 AM
#Sogdian was originally used in #Sogdia, modern-day #Uzbekistan, to write Sogdian, #Chinese, #Sanskrit, and #Uyghur.
There is an older more cursive form and a newer more formal form.
Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
There is an older more cursive form and a newer more formal form.
Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
How and why can we identify this protosaber as Byzantine? Because of the guard. Already we have seen the introduction of the cast bronze guard with the Aradac/Corinth/Kolked-type, but a new type of cast bronze guard with a long sleeve for the scabbard mouth develops in Sogdia around 700 CE.
April 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
How and why can we identify this protosaber as Byzantine? Because of the guard. Already we have seen the introduction of the cast bronze guard with the Aradac/Corinth/Kolked-type, but a new type of cast bronze guard with a long sleeve for the scabbard mouth develops in Sogdia around 700 CE.
Fighting against the Abbasids: Rebellions of the Khurramiyya in the 8th century www.medievalists.net/2022/06/figh... #MedievalHistory
Fighting against the Abbasids: Rebellions of the Khurramiyya in the 8th century - Medievalists.net
There were several other rebellions by Khurramiyya groups in Khurasan, Sogdia, and the Jibal region that are described to some extent in the sources and sometimes even just mentioned in passing.
www.medievalists.net
June 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fighting against the Abbasids: Rebellions of the Khurramiyya in the 8th century www.medievalists.net/2022/06/figh... #MedievalHistory
Koi Krylgan Kala is an archeological site from Karakalpakstan Republic. Built by Iranian people from the kingdom of Khwarezm (a sister civilization of a perhaps more famous Sogdia) in 4 cent BCE. Koi Krylgan Kala was both a fortress, a settlement, and a Zoroastrian temple.
October 6, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Koi Krylgan Kala is an archeological site from Karakalpakstan Republic. Built by Iranian people from the kingdom of Khwarezm (a sister civilization of a perhaps more famous Sogdia) in 4 cent BCE. Koi Krylgan Kala was both a fortress, a settlement, and a Zoroastrian temple.
He missed Sogdia. Typical.
July 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
He missed Sogdia. Typical.
Redrew the Naoya Zenin hair flip meme, with my OCs
Give it up for the Daughter of Sogdia, the Emanation of the Humanitarian Spirit, the Once and Future Secretary-General, Her Excellency Dana Yusupova 🫡🇺🇳🔥😤
Give it up for the Daughter of Sogdia, the Emanation of the Humanitarian Spirit, the Once and Future Secretary-General, Her Excellency Dana Yusupova 🫡🇺🇳🔥😤
January 30, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Redrew the Naoya Zenin hair flip meme, with my OCs
Give it up for the Daughter of Sogdia, the Emanation of the Humanitarian Spirit, the Once and Future Secretary-General, Her Excellency Dana Yusupova 🫡🇺🇳🔥😤
Give it up for the Daughter of Sogdia, the Emanation of the Humanitarian Spirit, the Once and Future Secretary-General, Her Excellency Dana Yusupova 🫡🇺🇳🔥😤
Fair point, and now that I think about it, the Sogdiana region also counts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogdia
Sogdia - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
June 1, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Fair point, and now that I think about it, the Sogdiana region also counts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogdia
after some consideration i think the mesopotamian one would go
1. Inanna
2. Ninshubur (a-lister in UR III!)
3. Nanaya (double a-lister via Sogdia)
4. Nergal
5. Ninisina/medicine goddesses as a category
6. Nanshe
7. Ishara
8. Enlil
9. Nisaba
10. your choice from between lagamal/lisin/usuramassu
1. Inanna
2. Ninshubur (a-lister in UR III!)
3. Nanaya (double a-lister via Sogdia)
4. Nergal
5. Ninisina/medicine goddesses as a category
6. Nanshe
7. Ishara
8. Enlil
9. Nisaba
10. your choice from between lagamal/lisin/usuramassu
February 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
after some consideration i think the mesopotamian one would go
1. Inanna
2. Ninshubur (a-lister in UR III!)
3. Nanaya (double a-lister via Sogdia)
4. Nergal
5. Ninisina/medicine goddesses as a category
6. Nanshe
7. Ishara
8. Enlil
9. Nisaba
10. your choice from between lagamal/lisin/usuramassu
1. Inanna
2. Ninshubur (a-lister in UR III!)
3. Nanaya (double a-lister via Sogdia)
4. Nergal
5. Ninisina/medicine goddesses as a category
6. Nanshe
7. Ishara
8. Enlil
9. Nisaba
10. your choice from between lagamal/lisin/usuramassu
The big issue I have is that when the middle ages starts in *Europe* vs the rest of Eurasia is a bit more problematic. There's a really solid argument for Europe starting in the early 700s, even extending as far as Eran and the Islamicization of Sogdia and Bactria in Inner Asia being markers.
February 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The big issue I have is that when the middle ages starts in *Europe* vs the rest of Eurasia is a bit more problematic. There's a really solid argument for Europe starting in the early 700s, even extending as far as Eran and the Islamicization of Sogdia and Bactria in Inner Asia being markers.
...Nothing besides remains. (translated inscription of the monolith in the disc.)
April 7, 2024 at 7:54 PM
...Nothing besides remains. (translated inscription of the monolith in the disc.)
The location of his life is unknown but it looks like the eastern steppe, plus or minus a thousand miles
August 3, 2023 at 9:51 PM
The location of his life is unknown but it looks like the eastern steppe, plus or minus a thousand miles
The Delphic precepts of Alexandria-in-Sogdia were copied & brought to the city by Clearchus who walked 3,000 miles from Delphi to the Oxus around 300-250 BC. Greeks in Afghanistan & Pakistan became Buddhists around 200 BC, 300 years before the religion arrived in China.
August 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The Delphic precepts of Alexandria-in-Sogdia were copied & brought to the city by Clearchus who walked 3,000 miles from Delphi to the Oxus around 300-250 BC. Greeks in Afghanistan & Pakistan became Buddhists around 200 BC, 300 years before the religion arrived in China.
"Chronology of Sogdia:
_ 327 BCE: conquest by Alexander the Great.
_ 2026 CE: Sogdian art cited as inspiration by French comic artist Pins."
_ 327 BCE: conquest by Alexander the Great.
_ 2026 CE: Sogdian art cited as inspiration by French comic artist Pins."
April 23, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Chronology of Sogdia:
_ 327 BCE: conquest by Alexander the Great.
_ 2026 CE: Sogdian art cited as inspiration by French comic artist Pins."
_ 327 BCE: conquest by Alexander the Great.
_ 2026 CE: Sogdian art cited as inspiration by French comic artist Pins."
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic Central Asia to illustrate connections between the Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal world. Here, I contend that some lesser-known evidence from Sogdia contributes new elements to current debates on the contact between Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal traditions and provides a measure of “intensity” of Arab rule in the region more generally.
www.biblioiranica.info
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic Central Asia to illustrate connections between the Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal world. Here, I contend that some lesser-known evidence from Sogdia contributes new elements to current debates on the contact between Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal traditions and provides a measure of “intensity” of Arab rule in the region more generally.
www.biblioiranica.info
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic Central Asia to illustrate connections between the Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal world. Here, I contend that some lesser-known evidence from Sogdia contributes new elements to current debates on the contact between Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal traditions and provides a measure of “intensity” of Arab rule in the region more generally.
www.biblioiranica.info
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Kassandra in Al-Andalus! Kassandra in Versailles! Kassandra along the Silk Road in the ruins of Sogdia! Kassandra in the empire of Mali! Kassandra in Ancient Rome! Kassandra during the Hundred Years War! Fuck it, Kassandra in WW2! This stuff writes itself, it's infuriating.
August 20, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Kassandra in Al-Andalus! Kassandra in Versailles! Kassandra along the Silk Road in the ruins of Sogdia! Kassandra in the empire of Mali! Kassandra in Ancient Rome! Kassandra during the Hundred Years War! Fuck it, Kassandra in WW2! This stuff writes itself, it's infuriating.
This map of walled cities in the Sogdia region of what is now Uzbekistan during Alexander's time shows how much Western history is lacking. Bactria was called the land of 1,000 cities. The Greeks were shocked it was so populated and wealthy. Waves of Muslim and Mongol invaders made it disappear.
April 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This map of walled cities in the Sogdia region of what is now Uzbekistan during Alexander's time shows how much Western history is lacking. Bactria was called the land of 1,000 cities. The Greeks were shocked it was so populated and wealthy. Waves of Muslim and Mongol invaders made it disappear.
I LOVE SILK ROUTES ERA STUDIES yknow lowkey archaeology of sogdia is on my bucket list but I doubt I’d ever have the chance to go there!!! (If I could be allowed to study one thing specifically ever for my career it would be the cultural exchange of food along the Asian trade routes)
August 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I LOVE SILK ROUTES ERA STUDIES yknow lowkey archaeology of sogdia is on my bucket list but I doubt I’d ever have the chance to go there!!! (If I could be allowed to study one thing specifically ever for my career it would be the cultural exchange of food along the Asian trade routes)
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic Central Asia to illustrate connections between the Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal world. Here, I contend that some lesser-known evidence from Sogdia contributes new elements to current debates on the contact between Arabic and Middle Iranian scribal traditions and provides a measure of “intensity” of Arab rule in the region more generally.
www.biblioiranica.info
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Frontier Pushes Back
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
Garosi (Dr.), Eugenio. 2025. The frontier pushes back: From local languages to imperial substrate(s) in scribal practices in 8th-century Central Asia. Iranian Studies FirstView. 1–15. This article draws on documentary texts from multilingual archives of early Islamic…
just learned that attempt at identifying a random sogdian deity as dumuzi (which also involved Geshtinanna - who was not actively worshiped past OB for the most part - being still actively worshiped in 6th century Sogdia LMAO) has been vanquished for good. post incoming
December 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
just learned that attempt at identifying a random sogdian deity as dumuzi (which also involved Geshtinanna - who was not actively worshiped past OB for the most part - being still actively worshiped in 6th century Sogdia LMAO) has been vanquished for good. post incoming