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Valerie Hansen credits a wave of refugees from this region with bringing the practice of writing their language on “wedge-shaped” and “double rectangular” wood slips to cities like Niya. The language named for this region provides the local name Kroraïna for the Tarim Basin kingdom of Loulan (“lo-lahn”), whose inhabitants used this region’s Kharoṣṭhī (“ka-ROHSH-tee”) script. This historic region (15[1])produced ornate stone “toilet trays,” as well the Shinkot and Bimaran casket reliquaries. This (*) satrapy northwest of Arachosia lay just southeast of the Khyber Pass. This region’s loose topknots stood for the ushnisha cranial knob in works that replaced aniconic images of footprints in the 1st century CE. The Kushan Empire patronized artists from this region who used densely folded robes and haloes in their images of the Buddha. For 10 points, what ancient region names a Greco-Buddhist art style? ■END■

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