عنوان

Afghanistan

9780300179545 (pbk.)

0300179545 (pbk.)

91-2168

انگلیسی

Afghanistan

: forging civilizations along the Silk Road

/ edited by Joan Aruz , Elisabetta Valtz Fino [with contributions by Paul Bernard ... [et al.]].

; London

: Distributed by Yale University Press

, c2012.

viii, 134 p.

: col. ill., col. maps

; 26 cm.

Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia

Selected conference papers.

"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at the symposium "Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on September 10, 2009."--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-133).

Map of the Silk Road -- Introduction / Joan Aruz -- At the crossroads of Asia: a history of the National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi -- The Bronze Age world of Afghanistan / Fredrik T. Hiebert -- Chronology: western, central, and east Asia after Alexander -- Coins: "The great guides of the historian" / Frank L. Holt -- Aï Khanum: a Greek colony in post-Alexandrian Central Asia, or how to be Greek in an oriental milieu / Paul Bernard -- The glass from Begram / David Whitehouse -- The Begram carvings: itinerancy and the problem of "Indian" art / Sanjyot Mehendale -- Bactrian gold: jewelry workshop traditions at Tillya Tepe / Jane Hickman -- Tillya Tepe and its connections with the Eurasian steppes / Henri-Paul Francfort -- Tillya Tepe: echoes of Greece and China / John Boardman -- Links, missing and otherwise: Tillya Tepe and East Asia / Denise Patry Leidy.

0

Forging civilizations along the Silk Road

Art, Ancient-- Afghanistan, Congresses.

Afghanistan, Antiquities, Congresses.

0

Aruz, Joan.

Fino, Elisabetta Valtz.

20120930145914.0

BL

251648

Y