February 2012
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THIS WEBLOG IS DEVOTED TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON...
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“… aut facere scribendam, aut scribere legendam …”
(Pliny the...”
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New Year's message 2012
Dear Friends and Fellow Researchers,
another year with 12 months full of intensive efforts to trace, copy, read and digest still more source material on the history of our main topic — the Yuezhi/Rouzhi/Wuzhi, i.e. the Asioi/Iatioi, Asiani/Asi, Arsi/Arshi — has gone by.
In this time, my “sparring partner” John Hill (half a world away in Cooktown/Australia, but connected by...
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STRABŌN 11.8.2 : ...
In 1927, 1928 and again in 1930, Professor Wolfgang Aly of Freiburg University (my hometown in Germany) went to Rome to decipher the folios of a palimpsest containing fragments of Strabōn’s Geography — today our oldest Strabōn codex, originally written in the fifth (!) century AD.
Before this trip abroad, Aly, at the Benedictine Abbey of Beuron, had made himself familiar with the latest...
