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STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythian Coins. 1887 + Notes on Ou-K'ong's Account of Kacmir. 1896

STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythian Coins. in:/span The Babylonian and Oriental Record, Volume 1, pages 155-166. [4], 210 pages, with 11 plates; errata slip laid in * Notes on Ou-k'ong's Account of Kaçmir. 32 pages. in:/span Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Volume 135. 14 parts in one volume, with 4 plates. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 244x177 mm, original cloth, scattered marginal foxing, endpapers browned; and 245x156 mm, original wrappers, bottom of backstrip chipped and repaired, contents generally clean. London, [1887]; Vienna, 1896 [front cover dated 1897]

  • Notes: first editions. The first paper, one of Stein's earliest publications, deals with numismatic evidence for the history of Zoroastrian worship. The second considers the 8th-century Kashmir travel narrative by a Chinese pilgrim in relation to the 12th-century verse history of Kashmir by Kalhana.

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