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Buddathvayen pasu Sath Sathya Mahnuvara ugaye bithu sithuvam asuren
O. Bopearachchi & N. Gunawardane, Buddathvayen pasu Sath Sathya Mahnuvara ugaye bithu sithuvam asuren (in Sinhala) Department of Archaeology, Colombo, 2022).
From Hindu Kush to Salt Range.
Mauryan, Indo-Greek and Indo- Scythian Coin Hoards.
O. Bopearachchi & Susmita Basu Majumdar, From Hindu Kush to Salt Range, the ink beyond Imagination, Kolkata, 2020, 98 pages.
The Greek God Helios & the Indian Deity Sūrya
O. Bopearachchi, The Greek God Helios & the Indian Deity Sūrya: A Study in the Dissemination of Sun God Imagery, Gandhāran Art Revisited, Book 2, the ink beyond Imagination, Kolkata, 2021, 110 pages.
Roots of Sri Lankan Art.
O. Bopearachchi, Roots of Sri Lankan Art, Department of Archaeology, Colombo, 2020, 155 pages. (Department of Archaeology, Sinhalese translation, 2021).(Sinhala translation by NadeeshaGunawardane, Department of Archaeology, Colombo, 2021).
Osmund Bopearachchi, When West Met East: Gandharan Art Revisited, Manohar Publishers, Delhi, 2020, 434 pages.
"Hiriyama Award” attributed by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, on June 2020.
Seven Weeks after the Buddha’s Engligtenment: Contradictions in Text, Confusions in Art, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2016, 75 pages.
O. Bopearachchi, Seven Weeks after the Buddha’s Engligtenment: Contradictions in Text, Confusions in Art, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2016, 75 pages.
Seven Weeks after the Buddha’s Engligtenment: Contradictions in Text, Confusions in Art, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2016, 75 pages.
Sinhala translation: by Nadeesha S. Gunawardana, Sath Sathiya, Godage Publishers, Colombo 2017.
O. Bopearachchi, Monnaies gréco-bactriennes et indo-grecques, Catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1991, 459 pages, 69 plates.
For reviews, see Fr. Holt, American Journal of Numismatics, 1992, pp. 215-222; J. Cribb, Numismatic Chronicle, 1993, pp. 312-314; G.A. Koselenko, Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 1994, pp. 220-225 ; M.S. Kordosis, ISTORIKOGEVGRAFIKA, Thessalonique, 1994, pp. 206-218 & C. Grandjean, Revue Numismatique, 1994, pp. 338-9.
O. Bopearachchi, Catalogue of Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993, 140 pages, 41 plates.
For reviews, see G. Le Rider, CRAI, 1996, pp. 1323-4; A. K. Singh, Yavanika, 1993, pp. 104-5, et P. Chuvin, TOPOI, 1994, pp. 337-340; K. Abdullaev, Numizmatica Central’noj Azii, IV, 1999 (Tashkent), pp. 87-88).
O. Bopearachchi & A. ur Rahman Pre-Kushana Coins in Pakistan, Iftikhar Rasul IRM Associates (Pvt.) Ltd., Karachi, 1995. 237 pages, 76 plates.
For reviews, see G. Le Rider, CRAI, 1996, pp. 1324-5; R. Gyselen, Studia Iranica, 25, 1996, pp. 281-283; E. Errington, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, 147, 1996, pp. 7-8; A.M. Shastri, Numismatic Digest, 19, 1995, pp. 217-221; A.D.H. Bivar, South Asian Archaeology, 13, 1997, pp. 325-327; S.R. Dar, Lahore Museum Bulletin, IX, 1996, pp. 149-152; K. Karttunen, Studia Orientalia 82, 1997, pp. 272-273; M. Mielczarek, Wiadomosci Numizmatyczne, 1996, pp. 197-199; G.A. Koshelenko, dans Rossijskaja Arxeologija, 1998, pp. 214-220; M.L. Carter dans American Journal of Numismatics, 10, 1998, p. 149-151; Nataliya M. Smirnova, Numismatics & Epigraphy, XVI, Moscou, 1999, pp. 295-299.
O. Bopearachchi & W. Pieper, Ancient Indian Coins, Brépols, Turnhout, Belgique, 1998, Indicopleustoi, vol. 11, 289 pages, 59 plates.
For a review, see A.O. Zakharov, dans Rossijkaja Arcxeologija, 2000/4, pp. 218-220.
O. Bopearachchi, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society, Part 9, New York, 1998, 94 pages, 76 plates.
O. Bopearachchi & R.M. Wickremesinhhe, Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilisation Re-visited. Numismatic and Archaeological Evidence on Inland and Maritime Trade, 1999, Colombo, 140 pages, 3 maps, 36 plates.
For a review, see J. Lingen, dans News Letter, ONS, no. 162, 2000, pp. 6-7.
O. Bopearachchi, An Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coin Hoard from Bara (Pakistan), Seattle, 2003, 104 pages, 33 plates.
For a review, see W. Pieper, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 178, 2004, p. 6-7.
O. Bopearachchi & Philippe Flandrin, Le Portrait d’Alexandre. Histoire d’une découverte pour l’humanité, Édition du Rocher, Monaco, 2005, 267 pages, 8 plates.
For reviews, see W. Piper, News Letter, ONS, no. 185, 2005, pp. 5-7; Aventure de l’Histoire, pp. 105-6; P. Chuvin, L’Histoire, no. 303, 2005; P. Centlivres, Afghan Info, p. 22; M.A.J. Tamalis, Nomismatika Chronica, 2005, pp. 127-8.
O. Bopearachchi, The Pleasure Gardens of Sigiriya. A New Approach, Godage Book Emporium, Colombo, 2006. 80 pages, 26 plates (Sinhalese translation, Godage Emporium, Colombo, 2008).
From Bactria to Taprobane: Selected Works of Osmund Bopearachchi, vol. I. Central Asian and Indian Numismatics; vol. II. Art History and Maritime Trade; Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2015, 1167 pages.
For reviews, see I. Habib, Studies in People's History, June 2015, Vol. 2 Issue: 1 pp. 136-138; H.-P. Francfort, Arts Asiatiques, 2015, Vol. 70, pp. 139-141.
Exhibition Catalogues
O. Bopearachchi, Beyond Boundaries: Buddhist art of Gandhara, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, 2021, 39 pages.
Inde, reflets de mondes sacrés, edited by Laura Giuliano, Musée d'histoire du Chateau Nante, 2022 , O. Bopearachchi, chapitres : “Le Bouddhisme et l’art bouddhique en Inde at au-delà” & “Dieux brahmaniques dans l'art bouddhique du Gandhāra”.
The Crossroads of Asia. Transition in Image and Symbol in the art of the Ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan, edited by E. Errington and Joe Cribb, The Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 54-88.
O. Bopearachchi & J. Cribb: 92 notices, see nos. 2- 94, pp. 54-88. For reviews, see M.L. Bates, dans American Journal of Numismatics, 5-6, 1993-4, p. 269-271; A.-M. Quagliotti, dans Numismatic Chronicle, 1994, p. 327-
Treasures of Ancient Bactria, The Miho Museum, Japan, July 2002, pp. 70-73, 221-24, 236-7.
O. Bopearachchi, 43 notices, see nos. 44.a-m; 45a-k; 46a-d; 46a-d; 47a-i; pp.70-73; chapters 222-224; 237-8.
Catalogue de l’Exposition: De l’Indus à l’Oxus. Archéologie de l’Asie Centrale, edited by O. Bopearachchi, C. Landes et C. Sachs, Association IMAGO - Muséee de Lattes, Lattes, 2003, 419 pages.
O. Bopearachchi: 65 notices, see nos. 48-88, 943, 94, 96-114, 134, 135, 277, 283 & chapters, pp. 13, 78-85, 127-132, 125.
O. Bopearachchi & P. Bernard: 4 notices; see nos. 90-92, 183.
O. Bopearachchi & A. Fenet: 1 notice,no. 89;
O. Bopearachchi & F. Grenet: 2 notices, nos. 131, 132;
O. Bopearachchi & C. Sachs: 16 notices, see nos. 115-124, 127-130, 133, 158.
For reviews, see W. Pieper, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 178, 2004, pp. 3-6; E. de la Vaissière, Abstracta Iranica, 26, 2003, no. 70.
Notae 4: “Sur les pas d’Alexandre ...”, Association IMAGO - Musée de Lattes, Lattes, 2005, 16 pages.
O. Bopearachchi: pp. 3-5; 20 notices, nos. 1-19, 49.
Translations (Books)
O. Guillaume, Analysis of Reasonings in Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1990, 133 pages.
Indian Coins from Afghanistan, edited by O. Guillaume, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, 200 pages.
Editor
Origin, Evolution and Circulation of Foreign Coins in the Indian Ocean, edited by O. Bopearachchi et D.P.M. Weerakkody, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 1998, 273 pages.
For a review, see A.D.H. Bivar, dans Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999, 62, p. 584.
Silk Road Art and Archaeology, Papers in honour of Francine Tissot, vol. 6, edited by E. Errington & O. Bopearachchi, Journal of the Institute of Silk Road Studies, Kamakura, 1999/2000, 313 pages.
For a review, see S.R. Quintanilla, dans Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124.1. 2004, pp. 192-195.
Alexander’s Legacy in the East. Studies in honor of Paul Bernard, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 12, edited by O. Bopearachchi, C. Altman and Fr. Grenet, Michigan, 1998, 272 pages.
Afghanistan. ancien carrefour entre l’Est et l’Ouest, edited by O. Bopearachchi & M.-Fr.Boussac, Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean, (Proceedings of the international colloquium on “Afghanistan. ancien carrefour entre l’Est et l’Ouest”, at Musée archéologique Henri-Prades, Lattes, 5 - 7 May 2003), Turnhout, 2005, 539 pages.
W. Pieper, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 186, 2006, pp. 8-10; Rika Gyselen, Studia Iranica, 35, 2006, pp. 291-293 ; A. Degener, Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 50, 2007, pp. 293-6.
The Alexander Medallion. Exploring the Origins of a Unique Artefact, edited by F. Holt and O. Bopearachchi, (Proceedings of the International Roundtable held at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris on 26th March, 2007) Imago-Lattara, 2011, 104 pages.
For a reviews, see P. Briant, « Sources anciennes et nouvelles », L’Histoire, October 2011, p. 42 ; M.J.A. Tzamalis, in Nomismatika Chroinica, no. 29, Athens 2011, p. 165-6 ; S. Ghosh, in Journal of the Asiatic Society, LIV, 2, 2012, pp. 99-102 ; ; S. Basu Majundar, Journal of Ancient Indian History, XXVII, p. 281-291.
Early Indian History and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor of B D Chattopadhyaya
Edited by Osmund Bopearachchi and Suchandra Ghosh, Primus books, New Delhi, 2019. 450.
Prefaces
O. Bopearachchi, “Presidential Address”, in Origin, Evolution and Circulation of Foreign Coins in the Indian Ocean, edited by O. Bopearachchi et D.P.M. Weerakkody, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 1998, pp. ix-xiii.
O. Bopearachchi, Preface to the book by D.P.M. Weerakkody, Taprobanê: Ancient Sri Lanka as known to Greeks and Romans, Brépols, Turnhout (Belgium), 1997, pp. I-XV.
O. Bopearachchi, C. Altman and Fr. Grenet,“Paul Bernard”, in Alexander’s Legacy in the East. Studies in honor of Paul Bernard, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 12, edited by O. Bopearachchi, C. Altman and Fr. Grenet, Michigan, 1998, pp. 1-2.
O. Bopearachchi and M.-F. Boussac Preface, Afghanistan. Ancien carrefour entre l’Est et l’Ouest, edited by O. Bopearachchi & M.-F. Boussac, Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean, Turnhout, 2005, p. 1.
O. Bopearachchi and F. Holt, Preface, The Alexander Medallion. Exploring the Origins of a Unique Artefact, edited by F. Holt and O. Bopearachchi, (Proceedings of the International Roundtable held at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris on 26th March, 2007) Imago-Lattara, 2011, pp. 9-11.
O. Bopearachchi, “Foreword”, Olivier D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Baktria and Ancient India, Classical numismatic Group, Inc. Lancaster / London, 2013, pp. vii-viii.
O. Bopearachchi, “Préface”, François Thierry, Le Royaume du Lion, Ceylan connu des Chinois des origines à la fin des Song, Indicopleustoi, Brépols, Turnhout, 2016, pp. i-viii.
O. Bopearachchi, “Preface”, Suchandra Ghosh, From the Oxus to the Indus: A Political and Cultural Study, (300BCE to 100BCE), Primus Books, Delhi, 2017, pp.
O. Bopearachchi, “Préface”, Olivier Bordeaux, Les Grecs en Inde. Politiques et pratiques monétaires (IIIe s. a.C. 1er s. p.C.), Ausonius Editions, Bordeaux, 2018, pp. 1-7.
O. Bopearachchi, “Preface”, Mural Art Studies. On Paintings in Asia, edited by C. Munier-Gaillard, River Books, Bangkok, 2018, pp. 16-17.
Articles thematically arranged - CENTRAL ASIAN and Indian NUMISMATICS
Pre-Bactrian Coinages
O. Bopearachchi, “Sophytes, the enigmatic ruler of Central Asia”, Nomismatika Khronika, 15, 1996, pp. 19-32.
O. Bopearachchi, “Les monnaies séleucides de l’Asie Centrale et l’atelier de Bactres" in Travaux de numismatique grecque offerts à Georges Le Rider, edited by M. Amandry and S. Hurter, London, 1999, pp. 78-93.
O. Bopearachchi, “Ashoka, le premier empereur”, L’Histoire. Numéro spécial, no. 278, 2003, pp. 36-38.
O. Bopearachchi, “La politique monétaire de la Bactriane sous les Séleucides”, Topoi, Suupl. 6, 2004, pp. 349-369.
O. Bopearachchi, "Premières frappes locales de l’Inde du Nord-Ouest: Novelles données", in Trésors d’Orient. Mélanges offerts à Rika Gyselen, edited by Ph. Gignoux, Ch. Jullien and F. Jullien, Paris, 2009, pp. 39-50.
O. Bopearachchi, “Achaemenids and Mauryas: Emergence of coins and plastic art in India,” In: India and Iran in the Longue Durée, Edited by A. Patel and T. Daryaee, UCI, Indian Centre for Persian Studies, 2017, pp. 15-47.
O. Bopearachchi, “Achaemenids and Mauryas: Emergence of coins and plastic art in India,” In: India and Iran in the Longue Durée, Edited by A. Patel and T. Daryaee, UCI, Indian Centre for Persian Studies, 2017, pp. 15-47.
Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins
O. Bopearachchi, "Roi-cavalier ou reine-amazone?", Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique, November 1988, pp. 453-456.
O. Bopearachchi, "Monnaies indo-grecques surfrappées", Revue Numismatique, 1989, pp. 49-79, pl. V- VI.
O. Bopearachchi, "Un roi indo-grec: Télèphe. Observations sur l'iconographie de son monnayage et la date de son règne", Gazette numismatique suisse, 39/1989, cahier 156, pp. 88-94.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les royaumes grecs d'Asie Centrale. L'apport de la numismatique à leur histoire", Les Nouvelles de l'Archéologie, 39, 1990, pp. 21-26.
O. Bopearachchi, "Graeco-Bactrian issues of later Indo-Greek kings", Numismatic Chronicle, 1990, pp. 79-104.
O. Bopearachchi, "Ménandre Sôter, un roi indo-grec. Observations chronologiques et géographiques", Studia Iranica, 20, 1990, pp. 39-85.
O. Bopearachchi, "King Milinda's conversion to Buddhism: fact or fiction?", Ancient Ceylon, 1990, Colombo, pp. 1-15.
O. Bopearachchi, "The Euthydemus' imitations and the Date of Sogdian Independence", in Silk Road. Art and Archaeology, 2, Kamakura (Japon), 1991/2, pp. 1-21 (summary in Russian in Kul’tura drevnego i srednevekovogo Samarkanda i istoreskie svjazi Sogda, Tashkent, 1990, pp. 30-31).
O. Bopearachchi, "Was Sagala Menander's Capital ?", South Asian Archaeology, 1989, Papers from the Tenth International Conference of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe, Musée national des Arts asiatiques- Guimet, Paris, 3-7 July, 1989, edited by C. Jarrige, Wisconsin, 1992, pp. 327-337.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les derniers rois indo-grecs: une autre hypothèse", Histoire et Cultes de l'Asie Centrale pré-islamique, edited by Fr. Grenet, Paris, 1988, pp. 235-242.
O. Bopearachchi, "A new approach to the history of the Greeks in India", Yavanika, Journal of the Indian Society for Greek and Roman Studies, vol. 1, 1992, pp. 6-20.
O. Bopearachchi, "Elephant Headed Ganesa or Zeus-Mithra?", Yavanika, Journal of the Indian Society for Greek and Roman Studies, 2, 1992, pp. 97-122.
O. Bopearachchi, "On the so-called earliest representation of Ganesha", TOPOI, Lyon, 3/2, 1993, pp. 425-453.
O. Bopearachchi, "L'indépendance de la Bactriane", TOPOI, Lyon, 4/2, 1994, pp. 513-519.
O. Bopearachchi, "Indian Brahman on a coin of Indo-Greek Telephus", News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 145, Summer 1995, pp. 8-9.
O. Bopearachchi, "Diodotus", Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. VII, Columbia University, New York, 1995, pp. 422-423.
O. Bopearachchi, "A unique Indo-Greek royal seal of a monetary type", News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, 148, Spring, 1996, pp. 12-3.
O. Bopearachchi, “Ellhnikav Nomivsmata. Tekmhriwnoun thn istoriva twn ellhnikwvn Basileivwn sth Baktriva kai thn Indiva", H Kaqhmerinh. Epta Hmere, 29, dec., 1996, Athenes, pp. 6-9.
O. Bopearachchi, "The Posthumous Coinage of Hermaios and the conquest of Gandhara by the Kushans", Gandharan Art in Context. East-West Exchanges at the Crossroads of Asia, edited by R. Allchin, B. Allchin, N. Kreitman et E. Errington, 1997, Cambridge, pp. 189-213.
O. Bopearachchi, “Two unreported coins from the second Mir Zakah deposit”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 165, Autumn 2000, pp. 15-6.
O. Bopearachchi, “La présence des Grecs en Asie Centrale: nouvelles données numismatiques”, Greek Archaeology without Frontiers, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 2002, pp. 109-126.
O. Bopearachchi, "Quelques observations sur la gravure des coins indo-grecs”, Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique, May 2002, pp. 73-76.
O. Bopearachchi, “Diomedes overstruck by Agathocleia”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, 172, 2002, pp. 13-14.
O. Bopearachchi & K. Grigo, “To err is human”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, 172, 2002, pp. 14-15.
O. Bopearachchi, “Heliocles I”, Encylopaedia Iranica, vol. XII, fas. 2, New York, 278, 2003, p. 154.
O. Bopearachchi, “Some observations on Indo-Greek die-engraving”, Journal of Ancient Indian History, XXI, 2000-2002 (2003), pp. 38-40.
O. Bopearachchi, “Two rare pre-Kushan coins”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 178, Winter 2004, pp. 18-20.
O. Bopearachchi and W. Pieper, “Over-struck and bouble-struck”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 178, Winter 2004, p. 20.
O. Bopearachchi, "Indo-Greek Dynasty", Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. XIII, Columbia University, New York, 2005, pp. 96-97.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les royaumes grecs en Bactriane et en Inde”, Actes du colloque international. Le monde hellénistique en orient à la lumière de fouilles archéologiques, Athènes, 2007, XVII, 2007, pp. 51-58, pls XXXVIII-XXXI.
O. Bopearachchi, “L’apport des surfrappes à la reconstruction de l’histoire des Indo-Grecs”, Revue numismatique, 2008, pp. 245-268.
O. Bopearachchi, “Was Indo-Greek Artemidoros the son of Indo-Scythian Maues? Amluk Dara hoard revisited”, Numismatica Chronica, 2008-9, p. 25-46.
O. Bopearachchi, “A note on some interesting Indo-Greek coins”, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 205, autumn, 2010, pp. 19-21.
O. Bopearachchi, "The emergence of the Graeco-Baktrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms", in Coins from Asia Minor and the East, Selections from the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, edited by N.L. Wright, Numismatic Association of Australia, Adelaide, 2011, pp. 47-50, 167-179.
O. Bopearachchi, “Deux documents exceptionnels en numismatique indo-grecque”, Cahiers numismatiques, no. 189, 2011, pp. 3-6.
O. Bopearachchi, “New numismatic evidence on the chronology of late Indo Greeks and early Kushans”, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Ancient Coins and the Culture of the Silk Road, 2011, pp. 259-283.
O. Bopearachchi, “Le monnayage des successeurs grecs et kouchans d’Alexandre el Grand”, in Art et Civilisations de l’Orient hellénisé, edited by P. Leriche, Picard, Paris, 2014, pp. 163-166, pl. p. 28.
O. Bopearachchi, “Alexandre le Grand et les portraits monétaires des souverains indo-grecs,” In Bilder der Macht. Das griechische Porträt und seine Verwendung in der antiken Welt, edited by D. Boschung, Fr. Queyrel, W. Fink, Paderborn, pp. 255-268, plates 6-9. The Chinese translation in Journal of Sichuan University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), pp. 112-120.
O. Bopearachchi, “Greeks, Scythians, Parthians, and Kushans in Central Asia and India », Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China, edited by Hyun Jin Kim and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 251-274.
Indo-Scythian Coins
O. Bopearachchi, “Sabedana or Sarpadana”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 169, autumn 2001, p. 21.
O. Bopearachchi, “Jihonika”, Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. VIV, Columbia University, New York, 2008, p. 645.
Indo-Parthian-Coins
O. Bopearachchi and Fr. Grenet, "Une monnaie en or du souverain indo-parthe Abdagases II" Studia Iranica, 25, 1996, pp. 219-231.
O. Bopearachchi, "Indo-Parthians", Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse”, Beiträge des Internationalen Colloquiums, Eutin, 27-29 June 1996, Stuttgart, 1998, pp. 389-406.
Fr. Grenet and O. Bopearachchi “Une nouvelle monnaie en or d’Abdagases II”, Studia Iranica, 28, 1999, p. 73-82.
Kushan Coins
O. Bopearachchi and Fr. Grenet, "Nashten, un souverain iranien inconnu entre Grecs et Kouchans", Studia Iranica, 22, 1993, pp. 299-307.
O. Bopearachchi, "Nashten, a hitherto unknown Iranian ruler in India, Studies in Silk Road Coins and Culture, Silk Road. Art and Archaeology, Special Volume 1997, Kamakura (Japan), 1997, pp. 67-74.
O. Bopearachchi, "Nashten, un prince iranien inconnu entre Grecs et Kouchans”, Comptes Rendus, Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, July-October, 1993, pp. 609-611.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les données numismatiques et la datation du bazar de Begram", TOPOI, Lyon, 2001, pp. 411-435.
O. Bopearachchi, "Chronologie et généalogie des premiers rois kushans: nouvelles données” Comptes Rendus, Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, juillet-octobre, 2006, pp. 1433-1447.
O. Bopearachchi, "Some observations on the chronology of the early Kushans”, Res Orientales, XVII, 2007, pp. 41-53.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les premiers souverains kouchans: Chronologie et iconographie monétaire", Journal des Savants, janvier-juin 2008, pp. 3-56.
O. Bopearachchi, "Alfred Foucher et les études numismatiques bactriennes", in Bouddhismes d’Asies. Monuments et littératures. Journée d’étude en hommage à Alfred Foucher (1865-1952), 2009, pp. 243-266. The same in Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, Comptes Rendus, Novembre-Decembre, 2007, pp. 1875-1897.
O. Bopearachchi & W. Pieper « Siva cursing Apasmarapurusa on a Huvishka coin », News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 200, Summer 2009, pp. 35-6.
O. Bopearachchi, "Kadphises, Kujula", Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. VII, Columbia University, New York, XV, 2009, pp. 331-2.
O. Bopearachchi & M. Blet-Lemarquand, “Begram stūpa deposit: further study on the origin of Kushan gold, in Re-Visiting Early India. Essays in Honour of D.C. Sircar, ed. S. Ghosh et all, B.N. Bhattacharya, Kolkata, 2013, pp. 29-36.
O. Bopearachchi, Hitherto unpublished gold coin of Kaniška I depicting Oado, Ancient Punjab, vol. 8, 2020-1, pp. 1-8.
O. Bopearachchi, Hitherto unpublished gold coin of Kaniška I depicting Oado, Ancient Punjab, vol. 8, 2020-1, pp. 1-8.
Coin Hoards and Deposits
O. Bopearachchi, "Coins from Mir Zakah in private collections", Indian Numismatics, History, Art and Culture. Essays in the Honour of Dr. P.L. Gupta, Volume I, 1992, pp. 87-94.
O. Bopearachchi, "Grands trésors de monnaies pré-sasanides trouvés en Afghanistan et au Pakistan", International Numismatic News Letter, 24, 1994, pp. 2-3.
O. Bopearachchi, "Recent discoveries: hoards and finds of ancient coins from Afghanistan and Pakistan", Yavanika, Journal of the Indian Society for Greek and Roman Studies, 4, 1994, pp. 3-30.
O. Bopearachchi, "Découvertes récentes de trésors indo-grecs: nouvelles données historiques", Comptes Rendus, Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, 1995, pp. 609-627.
O. Bopearachchi, "Coins hoards from Afghanistan and Pakistan” (in Japanese), Oriente, 8.9. 1995, pp. 13-22.
O. Bopearachchi, “Mir Zakah: Le plus grand trésor du monde”, Les Dossiers de la Monnaie, n° 12, 1997, pp. 12-16.
O. Bopearachchi, "Recent coin hoard evidence on pre-Kushana chronology", in Coins, Art, and Chronology. Essays on the pre-Islamic History of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, ed. by M. Alram & D.E. Klimburg-Salter, Vienna, 1999, pp. 99-149.
O. Bopearachchi, “Le dépôt de Mir Zakah. Le plus grand trésor du monde, son destin et son intérêt", Dossiers d’Archéologie, 248, November 1999, pp. 36-43.
O. Bopearachchi, “Trésors monétaires pré-Kushans trouvés en Afghanistan et au Pakistan”, in Akten XII. Internationaler Numismatischer Kongress Berlin 1997, I, edited by B. Kluge and B. Weisser, Berlin, 2000, pp. 239-243.
O. Bopearachchi, “Some interesting coins from the Pandayale hoard”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 169, Autumn 2001, pp. 19-21.
O. Bopearachchi, “Two more unique coins from the second Mir Zakah deposit”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 169, Autumn 2001, pp. 21-22.
O. Bopearachchi & K. Grigo, “Thundering Zeus revisited”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 169, Autumn 2001, pp. 22-24.
O. Bopearachchi, “A joy and a curse”, The Alexander Medallion. Exploring the Origins of a Unique Artefact, edited by F. Holt and O. Bopearachchi, Imago-Lattara, 2011, pp. 33-73.
Monetary Circulation
O. Bopearachchi, “La circulation et la production monétaires en Asie Centrale et dans l’Inde du Nord-Ouest (avant et après la conquête d’Alexandre)”, Indologica Taurinensia, Official Organ of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Turin, XXV, 1999, pp. 15-119.
O. Bopearachchi, “La production monétaire en Asie Centrale et dans l’Inde du Nord-Ouest du Ve siècle av. J.-C. au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.”, in Matériaux pour l’histoire économique du monde iranien, edited by R. Gyselen & M. Szuppe, 1999, pp. 79-100.
Art History - Hellenistic Art
O. Bopearachchi, “Gilded silver statue of a modest Venus from Begram”, in Papers in Honour of Francine Tissot, Silk Road. Art and Archaeology, 6, edited by E. Errington and O. Bopearachchi, 1999/ 2000, pp. 75-81.
O. Bopearachchi, “A faience head of a Graeco-Bactrian king from Ai Khanum” in Alexander’s Legacy in the East. Studies in honor of Paul Bernard, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 12, edited by O. Bopearachchi, C. Altman and F. Grenet, Michigan, 1998, pp. 23-30.
O. Bopearachchi, “The contribution of Greeks to art and culture of Bactria and India. New archaeological evidence”, The Journal of Indo-Turcia (JIT), Malatya, 2001, pp. 171-192.
P. Bernard & O. Bopearachchi, “Deux bracelets grecs avec inscriptions grecques trouvés dans l’Asie Centrale hellénisée”, Journal des Savants, 2002, pp. 237-278.
O. Bopearachchi, "Contribution of Greeks to the art and culture of Bactria and India: new archaeological evidence, The Indian Historical Review, XXXII, 2005, pp. 103-125.
O. Bopearachchi, "Découvertes récentes de sculptures hellénistiques en Asie centrale” in Art et archéologie des monastères gréco-bouddhiques du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde et de l’Asie Centrale, Actes du colloque international du Crpoga (Strasbourg, 17-18 mars 2000), edited by Z. Tarzi and D. Vaillancourt, De Boccard, Paris, 2005, pp. 51-65.
O. Bopearachchi, "Royaumes grecs en Afghanistan. Nouvelles données”, in L’art d’Afghanistan de la préhistoire à nos jours, CERDAF, Paris 2005, pp. 49-69.
Fr. Baratte, O. Bopearachchi, R. Gyselen & N. Sims-Williams, "Un plat romain inscrit en Bactrien et Parsig”, Res Orientales, XXI, 2012, pp. 9-28.
O. Bopearachchi, « Émergence des images de Viṣṇu en Inde d’après les données numismatiques et sculpturales » In Monde grec et indien, d’Alexandre le Grand à Kaniṣka, sous la direction de Guillaume Ducœur et Claire Muckensturm-Pouille, Press universitaire de Franche-Comté, 2023, pp. 61-80.
Art History - Gandhāran and Indian Art
Osmund Bopearachchi, “Brahmā at the Ajapāla Banyan Tree: Re-Examining Paintings at the Sulamani Temple, Bagan”, MDPI PDF Version:
O. Bopearachchi and Ch. Sachs, "Armure et armes des Indo-Scythes d’après leurs émissions monétaires et les données archéologiques", TOPOI, Lyon, 2001, p. 321-355.
O. Bopearachchi, "Recent archaeological discoveries from Afghanistan and Pakistan”, Bulletin of Miho Museum, vol. V, 2005, pp. 19-30.
O. Bopearachchi, "Recent archaeological discoveries from Afghanistan and Pakistan”, Bulletin of Miho Museum, vol. V, 2005, pp. 19-30.
O. Bopearachchi, "L’art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhara”, in Pakistan. Un autre regard, edited by D. Evmoon, 2005, p. 8-15.
O. Bopearachchi, "Acroliths from Bactria and Gandhāra”, in On the Cusp of an Era. Art in the Pre-Kushana World, edited by D. Meth-Srinivasan, Leiden-Boston, 2007, p. 119-132, pls. 5.1-5.10.
O. Bopearachchi, "An enigmatic image of Varāha-Viṣṇu from Gandhāra", O. Bopearachchi, "L’art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhara”, in Pakistan. Un autre regard, edited by D. Evmoon, 2005, p. 8-15.Jnana-Pravaha Research Journal, XII, 2008-2009, pp. 102-4, pls. 14.1-2.
O. Bopearachchi, "In search of Utpalavarna in Gnadharan Buddhist art", in Un impaziente desiderio di scorrere il mondo. Studi in onore di Antonio Invernizzi per il suo sttantesimo compleanno, edited by Carlo Lippolis & Stefano de Martino, Le Lettere, Firenzee, 2011, pp. 253-367.
O. Bopearachchi, "Avalokitesvara-Padmapani dans l’art bouddhique du Gandhara: nouvelles données", in Autour de Bamiyan. De la Bactriane hellénisée à l’Inde bouddhique, ed. G. Ducoeur, De Boccard, Paris, 2012, pp. 337-343.
O. Bopearachchi, “Chronology of the Early Kushans: New Evidence”, in Glory of the Kushans: Recent Discoveries and Interpretations / ed. by Vidula Jayaswal. - New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2012, pp. 123-136.
O. Bopearachchi, “Emergence of Viṣṇu Iconography in Gandhāra: Numismatic and Sculptural Evidence” Iconography of the Hindus, the Buddhists and the Jains, C.P.R. Institute of Indological Research, 8-9 January, 2016.
O. Bopearachchi, “Pectoral depicting Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from Greater Gandhāra” Ancient West and East, 17, 2018, pp. 231-252.
O. Bopearachchi, “Greek Helios or Indian Sūrya: Spread of the Sun God Imagery from India to Gandhāra” In: Connecting the Ancient West and East. Studies presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze,edited by J. Boardman, J. Hargrave, A. Avram and A. Podossinov, Monographs in Antiquity, Vol. VIII, Peeters, Leuven/Paris/Bristol, CT, 2021, pp. 941-954.
O. Bopearachchi & R. Salomon, “Two Gandharan Seated Buddha Images”, Bulletin of the Asian Institute, vol. 31, 2022/2023, pp. 49-54.
O. Bopearachchi, « La diffusion artistique des Jātaka bouddhiques et la réception du Valāhassa-jātaka » IN Barlaam et Josaphat » dans Barlaam et Josaphat dans l’histoire des religions. Actes du colloque international (23 –24 mai 2023) edited by Guillaume Ducœur et Michel Tardieu, Université de Strasbourg, 2024, pp. 25-55.
Archaeological Excavations in Sri Lanka
Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean
O. Bopearachchi, "Sea-borne and inland trade of ancient Sri Lanka: First results of the Sri Lanka-French exploratory program", South Asian Archaeology, 1995, pp. 285-299.
O. Bopearachchi, "Seafaring in the Indian Ocean: Archaeological evidence from Sri Lanka", in Tradition and Archaeology. Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean, ed. by H.P. Ray and J.-F. Salles, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 59-77.
O. Bopearachchi, "Fouilles archéologiques au Sri Lanka: Commerce maritime entre l’empire romain, le monde indien et l’Extrême Orient", Bonjour, Alliance française du Sri Lanka, n° 26, oct. 1996, pp. 5-12.
O. Bopearachchi, "Seafaring in the Indian Ocean: Archaeological evidence from Sri Lanka", in Tradition and Archaeology. Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean, ed. by H.P. Ray and J.-F. Salles, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 59-77.
O. Bopearachchi, "Fouilles archéologiques au Sri Lanka: Commerce maritime entre l’empire romain, le monde indien et l’Extrême Orient", Bonjour, Alliance française du Sri Lanka, n° 26, oct. 1996, pp. 5-12.
O. Bopearachchi, "Antichità dello Sri Lanka", Archeo. Attualita del Passato, Dossier, Rome, anno XIII, n° 2 (144), February 1997, p. 12.
O. Bopearachchi, "Archaeological evidence on changing patterns of international trade relations of ancient Sri Lanka”, in Origin, Evolution and Circulation of Foreign Coins in the Indian Ocean, ed. by O. Bopearachchi and D.P.M. Weerakkody, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 133-178.
O. Bopearachchi, "The maritime silk roads: Trade relations between Central Asia and Sri Lanka from the evidence of recent excavations“, Silk Road. Art and Archaeology, 5, 1997/8, pp. 269-295.
O. Bopearachchi, “Sites portuaires et emporia de l’ancien Sri Lanka: nouvelles données archéologiques", Arts Asiatiques, 54, 1999, pp. 5-22.
O. Bopearachchi, “Ancient Sri Lanka: New archaeological data of the trade between Rome and China”, in Men and Monuments. D.T. Devendra. A century Tribute, edited by L. Prematilake, Colombo, 2001, pp. 97-112.
O. Bopearachchi, “Archaeological evidence on Shipping communities of Sri Lanka”, in Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology in the Indian Ocean, edited by D. Parkin and R. Barnes, London, 2002, pp. 92-127.
O. Bopearachchi, “Mission française de coopération archéologique au Sri Lanka”, L’Archéologie à l’École normale supérieure, Paris, 2002, pp. 143-4.
O. Bopearachchi, S. Disanayaka and N. Perera, "The Oldest Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean", In Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean, edited by Marie-Françoise Boussac, Jean-François Salles, Jean-Baptiste Yon, Primus Books, Delhi 2016, pp. 411– 434.
Monetary Circulation in South India and Sri Lanka
O. Bopearachchi, "Le commerce maritime entre Rome et Sri Lanka d'après les données numismatiques", L'Océan et les mers lointaines in l'antiquité, Actes du colloque de la Société des Professeurs d'Histoire Ancienne de l'Université de Nantes-Angers, 24-26 mai 1991, Paris 1992, pp. 107-121 ; Revue des études Anciennes, 1992, pp. 107-121.
O. Bopearachchi, "Recent discoveries of ancient foreign coins, hitherto unknown in Sri Lankan context", Sesquicentennial Commemorative Volume, Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka 1845-1995, Colombo, 1995, pp. 127-139, pl. I & II.
O. Bopearachchi, "Ancient Coins in Sri Lanka”, Economic Review, vol. 23, October/November. 1997, pp. 21-26.
O. Bopearachchi, "Codrington’s studies on Sri Lankan numismatics: Past and Present”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, XLI, Special Number, 1998, pp. 39-64.
O. Bopearachchi, H. Falk & R. Wickremesinhe, “Earliest inscribed coins, moulds, seals and sealings from Tissamaharama (Sri Lanka)”, Numismatic Chronicle, 2000, pp. 117-134.
O. Bopearachchi and K. Ratnatunga, “An inscribed Abhisheka Lakshmi coin from Sri Lanka”, News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 178, Winter 2004, pp. 20-21.
O. Bopearachchi, « Coins » in Anuradhapura: The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2, British Archaeological Reports (BAR), edited by R. Coningham, Oxford, 2006, pp. 7-26.
Maritime Trade between South India and Sri Lanka
O. Bopearachchi, “Puratana sri lankava saha tamil naduva atara thibu sanskrutika ha vanija sambandata pilibada nawa puravidyatmaka sakshi” (in Sinhalese), Pravada, Colombo, 18, April-Juin, 2001, pp. 57-73.
O. Bopearachchi “Les relations commerciales et culturelles entre Sri Lanka et Inde du sud: Nouvelles données archéologiques et épigraphiques”, Cahier du cercle d’études et de recherches sri lankaise, 2002, pp. 1-16.
O. Bopearachchi, "Archaeological evidence on cultural and commercial relationships between ancient Sri Lanka and South India”, in Honouring Martin Quéré o.m.i., edited by G. Robuchon, Clamecy, 2002, pp. 60-75.
O. Bopearachchi & K. Rajan, “Graffiti Marks of Kodumanal (India) and Ridiyagama (Sri Lanka) — A Comparative Study”, Man and Environment XXVII (2) 2002, pp. 97-105.
O. Bopearachchi, “Ancient Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu: Maritime Trade”, in South Asian Horizons. Felicitation Volume for François Gros, ed. by J.-L. Chevillard & E. Wilden, EFEO, Pondichéry, 2004, pp. 539-551.
O. Bopearachchi, “New archaeological evidence on cultural and commercial relations between ancient Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu”, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Archaeology, vol. 1, Summer 2004, pp. 60-72.
O. Bopearachchi, Tamil Traders in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese Traders in Tamil Nadu, monograph, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 2008, 32 p.
O. Bopearachchi, “Indian Ocean trade through Buddhist iconographies” The Maritime Silk Road. Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities, edited by Franck Billé, Sanjyot Mehendale & James W. Lankton, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2022, pp. 243-266.
Art History South India and Sri Lanka
O. Bopearachchi, “Art bouddhique", Dictionnaire du Bouddhisme. Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1999, p. 522..
O. Bopearachchi, “Sri Lanka. L’archéologie du bouddhisme”, Dossiers Archéologie, 254, June, 2000, pp. 68-77.
O. Bopearachchi, “Sculptures of Amaravati tradition in Sri Lanka”, Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. L, 2008, pp. 1-26.
O. Bopearachchi, “Andhra-Tamilnadu and Sri Lanka: Early Buddhist Sculptures of Sri Lanka”, in New Dimensions of Tamil Epigraphy, ed. A. Murugaiyan, Cre-A, 2012, pp. 49-68.
O. Bopearachchi, “‘The Well-Farer of the world is not easily led away’: Revisiting the Paintings of the Mahārājaleṇa of the Dambulla Raja Mahāvihāra (Sri Lanka)” In Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia Studies in Honour of Monika Zin, Edited by Ines Konczak-Nagel, Satomi Hiyama, and Astrid Klein DEV Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, 2022, pp. 37-50.
O. Bopearachchi, “Images of gods of wealth: Kubera, Shankhanidi and Padmanidhi sailing from Andhra to Sri Lank,” Orientations, July/august, 2023, pp. 46-53.
Landscape Architecture
O. Bopearachchi, "Sigiriya, un point culminant de l'architecture civile de l'antique Ceylan", Bulletin de l’Association française des amis de l'Orient, n° 34, Printemps 1992, p. 16.
O. Bopearachchi, "Les jardins de Sigiriya au Sri Lanka", Asies II, Aménager l'Espace, edited by F. Blanchon, Paris, 1993, pp. 239-261.
Reservation of Central Asian Cultural Heritage
O. Bopearachchi, “Recent discoveries of coin hoards in Afghanistan and Pakistan: A question of clandestine diggings and the illicit traffic in antiquities”, Newsletter, Circle of Inner Asian Art, 8, November, 1998, pp. 8-12.
O. Bopearachchi, “Aï Khanoum, un triste destin”, Dossiers Archéologie, Empires Perses d’Alexandre aux Sassanides, n° 243 May 1999, p. 35.
O. Bopearachchi, "Quelle politique adopter face à la dispersion du patrimoine ? Le cas de l’Afghanistan et du Pakistan, L’Avenir des musées, Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre, les 23, 24 et 25 mars 2000, Paris, 2001, pp. 289-306.
O. Bopearachchi, “Trésors monétaires découvertes et pillage” in Afghanistan. Patrimoine en péril. Actes d’une journée d’étude, Centre d’Études et de recherches documents sur l’Afghanistan, Paris, 2001, pp. 97-108.
O. Bopearachchi, “Vandalised Afghanistan”, Frontline, India’s National Magazine, 19, March 2002, pp. 66-70.
O. Bopearachchi, “The destruction of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage”, News Letter. International Institute for Asian Studies, March, 27, 2002, pp. 13-14.
O. Bopearachchi, “Nouvelles trouvailles archéologiques en Afghanistan et au Pakistan et la destruction du patrimoine”, La Timoride. Spécial Afghanistan, Paris, 24, 2002, pp. 10-20.
O. Bopearachchi, “Preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage”, Caucasus and Central Asian Newsletter, Winter 2000/3, pp.17-9.
O. Bopearachchi, “Vandalized Afghanistan”, Nomismatic Chronica, 2002, pp. 91-99.
O. Bopearachchi, Sauvegarder le patrimoine afghan”, Parages, spring, 8, 2003, pp. 55-65.
O. Bopearachchi, Preserving Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage: What is to be done”, in Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation, edited by N. Agnew and J. Bridgland, Paul Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 266-272.
O. Bopearachchi, “Sri Lanka and the Maritime Trade: the impact of the Role of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara as the Protector of Mariners” in Asian Encounters Networks of Cultural Interaction, ed. P. Dhar & U. Singh, New Delhi, 2013.
Book reviews
O. Bopearachchi, "Le monnayage de la Bactriane et de l'Inde antique", A Survey of Numismatic Research 1985-1990, Bruxelles, 1991, pp. 131-138.
O. Bopearachchi, Review of R. Krishnamurthy, on Late Romaan Copper Coins from South India:: Karur and Madurai, Madras 1994, in News Letter, Oriental Numismatic Society, no. 141, Summer 1994, pp. 3-4.
O. Bopearachchi, Review of Ellen M. Raven's, Gupta Gold Coins with a Garu.da-Banner: Samudragupta - Skandagupta, Garnet Publications, (2 vols) 1994, South Asian Archaeology, 12, 1996, pp. 161-2.
O. Bopearachchi, Review of Metallurgy in Numismatics, vol. 3, edited by M.M. Archibald and M.R. Cowell, Royal Numismatic Society, London 1993, Numismatic Chronicle, 1997, pp. 251-253.
O. Bopearachchi, "Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins", A Survey of Numismatic Research 1990-1995, edited by C. Morrisson and B. Kluge, Berlin, 1997, pp. 137-141.
O. Bopearachchi, "Gréco-Bactriens, Indo-Grecs, Indo-Scythes, Indo-Parthes", A Survey of Numismatic Research 1996-2001, Madrid, 2003, pp. 189-194.
O. Bopearachchi, "Numismatique des Kouchans", A Survey of Numismatic Research 1996-2001, Madrid, 2003, pp. 669-673.
O. Bopearachchi, Preserving Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage: What is to be done”, in Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation, edited by N. Agnew and J. Bridgland, Paul Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 266-272.
O. Bopearachchi, "Inde du Sud et Sri Lanka", A Survey of Numismatic Research 1996-2001, Madrid, 2003, pp. 685-688.
O. Bopearachchi, "Etudes numismatiques kouchanes", in International Numismatic Commission (General Editors M. Amandry & D. Bateson), A Survey of Numismatic Research 2002-2007, International Association of Professional Numismatists, Special Publication 15, Glasgow 2009, pp. 505-507.
O. Bopearachchi, Ingo Strauch, Foreign Sailors on Socotra. The inscriptions and drawings from the cave Hoq, Verlgeichende Studien zu Antike und Orient,no. 3, Hempen Verlag, 2012, Bremen, dans Topoi, 2014, pp. 875-9.
O. Bopearachchi, "Numismatique de l’Inde du Sud et du Sri Lanka", A Survey of Numismatic Research 2001-2014, Taromina, 2015, pp. 514-5.
O. Bopearachchi, Review of N. Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA/London, 2015, in Ancient West & East, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 405-7.
O. Bopearachchi, Review of C.I. Beckwith, Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia, Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford 2015, in Ancient West & East, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 341-2.
Data bases
Creation of two databases based on the two important collections in the Archaeological Museums of Anuradhapura and Yatala (Sri Lanka) with the collaboration of UNESCO, CNRS-ENS and University of California at Berkeley.
Creation of the database of the numismatic collection of the National Museum of Kabul (Afghanistan) with the collaboration of UNESCO and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Audio-visual Productions
Interview “La Cinquième rencontre” Cinquième chaîne” broadcast on August 18, 1998. This program was on the Sri Lankan archaeology and the activities of the French Archaeological Delegation in Sri Lanka.
Interview with Patrick Cazals of “France Culture” recorded in Sri Lanka and broadcast on January 2, 1999 at 14h by ‘France Culture’ under the program “l’Usage du Monde”.
Interview with Marie-Pierre Verot of “Radio France Internationale” broadcast on November 14th 2002 at 12h 45.
“Sri Lanka - Archéologie”, Corpus, Encylopaedia unversalis, 1998 (CD-ROM).:
Participation in the program “Mots Croisés” of Arlette Chabot, ‘France 2’, January 10th 2005, from 23h to 1h.
Participation in the program “Relations between India and Sri Lanka” interview with Arfa K. Sherwani,
Participation in the program “Radio Ranga Mandira”, Chennai, radio interview with Dr. Swarnamalya Ganesh, January 8th 2016.
Participation as Presenter and Scientific Adviser in the TV the series of 500 programs (each 25 minutes) on Indian and Sri Lankan art with the collaboration of the Department of Archaeology. These programs are diffused every Sunday at 5: 30 p.m. by the ITN since 2009.
Musical Masterworks and Special Edition: Eye on History, The Legacy of Alexander the Great in Central Asia, Bactria and India, August 5th 19h – 20h. COSMOS FM radio broadcast.
Curators in Quarantine: Buddhist Art of Gandhara. 18th December 2020. Osmund Bopearachchi in conversation with Jeffrey Spier about the Buddhist art of Gandhara.
Articles in news papers
  • Indian Express, (New Delhi) January 7, 1992.
  • Le Journal du CNRS, (Paris) n° 64, April 1995.
  • ELEUQEROTUPIA, (Athens) February 29, 1996.
  • Gulf News, (Dubai), May 30, 1995.
  • The Island, (Colombo) September 25, 1994.
  • Silumina, (Colombo) September 10, 1995.
  • The Sunday Times, (Colombo) October 20, 1996.
  • Dinamalar, (Madras), April, 1997.
  • Le Monde, (Paris) March 5,2001 & April 12, 2001.
  • Les Dernières nouvelles d’Alsace (Strasbourg), March 6, 2001.
  • Le Journal du CNRS, (Paris) n° 139/40, July 2001.
  • Indian Express (New Delhi), January 13, 2002.
  • Littoral (Montpellier), May 3, 2003.
  • Midi Libre (Montpellier), May 8, 2003.
  • The Times (London), June 9, 2003.
  • Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt), September 5, 2003.
  • Amarujala, (Bareilly) January 10, 2004.
  • Dnik Jagran (Bareilly) January 10, 2004.
  • Midi Libre (Montpellier), January 13, 2004.
  • Paris Match (Paris), June 16 - 22, 2005, p. 70-75.
  • Midi Libre (Montpellier), September 14, 2005.
  • Le Journal du CNRS, (Paris) n° 192, January 2006
  • TANEA (Athènes), March 11 & 12, 2006.
  • Dinamalar, (Madras), March 23, 2006.
  • Island, (Colombo), June 22 & August 28, 2006.
  • Rivira, (Colombo), September 16 2007, p. 31.
  • Les Cahiers de Sciences et Vie, Spécial n° 100, “Les 100 plus grands trésors de l’Antiquité”, August-September 2007, p. 92.
  • Sri Lanka Guardian, (Colombo) le 29 avril 2011, p. 1.
  • Rivira, (Colombo), Septembre 11, 2011, p. 17 & 21.
  • Irida Lankadeepa, (Colombo), September 11, 2011, p. 9.
  • Dinamina (Colombo), September 15, 2011, p. 3.
  • Daily Mirror, (Colombo), September 17, 2011, p. 12.
  • Rivira, (Colombo), September 25, 2011, p. 17.
  • Sunday Times (Colombo), September 25, 2011, p.
  • Science (USA) July 24th 2012, pp. 288-9.
  • Island (Sri Lanka) March 19th 2014.
  • Xronos (Athens) March 19th 2014, p. 16.
  • Athens News Agency, April 1st 2014
  • India, The Hindu, “Coin Crusader”, September 17th 2015.
  • Island (Sri Lanka) January 11th 2017.
  • India. The Hindu, “Arts & Culture”, February 9th 2017.
  • Daily News (Sri Lanka) February 13th 2018, p. 4
  • Times of India. City, February 11th 2021,
  • The Morning. (Sri Lanka), May 20th 2021, p. 11.
Personal Details
Name : Christie Osmund Flavian Bopearachchi
Date of Birth : 4th December 1949
Place of Birth : Negambo, Sri Lanka
Citizenship at birth : Sri Lankan
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