gems, Central Asia, numismatics, art history, history of gemology, history of mineralogy, Arabic mineralogy, India, Sri Lanka, Indian lapidary

From Bactria to Taprobane is divided into two major volumes, the first on ‘Central Asian and Indian Numismatics’ and the second on ‘Art History and Maritime Trade’. The first volume is grouped into four sections: ‘Pre-Bactrian Numismatics’ (chapters 1-6); ‘Bactrian and Indo-Greek Numismatics’ (chapters 8-28); ‘Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan Numismatics’ (chapters 29-36); and Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan’ (chapters 37-39). This choice was made deliberately to isolate the Central Asian and Indian numismatic studies which constitute the main corpus of my studies. Within the thematic sections the articles are arranged in a chronological sequence. These two volumes received the George Perrot Medal” attributed by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, on January 23rd 2015."