Bdellium
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Bdellium is a semi-transparent oleo-gum resin extracted from Commiphora wightii plants, and from Commiphora africana trees growing in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Pliny the best quality came from
Bdellium resin
Commiphora wightii
Bactria
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Bactria, or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia, located in the area south of the Oxus River and north of the Hindu Kush mountains, within modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Bdellium
…extracted from Commiphora wightii plants, and from Commiphora africana trees growing in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Pliny the best quality came from Bactria. Other named sources for the resin are Arabia, India, Media, and Babylonia. Bdellium consists of a water-soluble gum, a resin, and an essential oil…
Xerxes I tomb, Bactrian soldier c. 470 BC.
Pre-Seleucid Athenian owl imitation from Bactria, possibly from the time of Sophytes.
Gold stater of the Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides
The treasure of the royal burial Tillia tepe is attributed to 1st century BC Sakas in Bactria.