Book
FROM THE NILE TO THE INDUS A Collection of Articles in Honor of Archil S. Balakhvantsev's 60th Anniversary
Editor: Berzon Ekaterina, Makkaveev Nikolay
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2026, 248 p.
Content
Berzon E.M., Makkaveev N.A. A Few Words about the Hero of the Day ..................................................... 6
List of published scientific works by Archil S. Balakhvantsev .................................................................. 21
Malykh S.E. Ceramics of the Achaemenid type in Eastern Giza: on the Issue of the Imperial Style
of the Material Culture of Egypt in the 5th–4th centuries BC. .................................................................. 33
Nemirovsky A.A. Tavagalava and the Amazons: Revisiting the Survival of the Memory
of the Events of the 13th – Early 12th Centuries BC in the Greek Legendary Tradition ........................... 50
Klimov O.Yu. The History of the Kingdom of Pergamon in the Works of M.I. Rostovtzeff ...................... 78
Ryabkova T.V. A Glass Drinking Horn from Tarasova Balka: on the Rituals
of the Early Scythian Period in Trans-Kuban region .................................................................................. 89
Monakhov S.Yu., Kuznetsova E.V. Mound No. 14/1960 of the “Five Brothers” Group
at the Elizavetovsky Necropolis .................................................................................................................. 97
Shinkar O. A., Demidenko S.V. Bronze Cauldrons of the early Sarmatian Period from
a Single Burial Mound near Volzhsky ...................................................................................................... 107
Chistyakova M.S. Microscopic Study of Fragments of Archaeological Textiles from
a Single Burial Mound near Volzhsky ...................................................................................................... 126
Gadzhiev M.S., Abdulaev A.M., Budaychiev A.L., Shaushev K.B. Research of the Sasanian
Fortification in the Coastal Part of Derbent and Some Issues of the Historical Topography
and Defense of the City in the Late Sasanian Period ................................................................................ 134
Berzon E.M. The Babylonian Chronicle of Seleucus III (BCHP 12) and its Historical Context .............. 160
Delshad S. Once Again the Second Copy of the Babylonian Version of XPf
(the So-Called Xerxes’ Harem Text) ......................................................................................................... 169
Callieri P., Mezzapelle D.M. Ancient “Anchors” in the Nâyband Bay (Persian Gulf, Iran):
Hypotheses and Theories on the Findings of Ballast Stones .................................................................... 184
Kleymenov A.A. Alexander the Great and the Nomads of Central Asia:
Tactical Aspects of the Confrontation ....................................................................................................... 199
Dvurechenskaya N.D. Early Hellenistic Ceramic Complexes from the Floor
of Structure 36 of the Kampyrtepa Fortress .............................................................................................. 219
Dedyulkin A.V. Bronze Sword from a Statue from the Oxus Temple. Achilles in Bactria? ...................... 238












