/ edited by Joan Aruz , Elisabetta Valtz Fino [with contributions by Paul Bernard ... [et al.]].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; London
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Distributed by Yale University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 134 p.
Other Physical Details
: col. ill., col. maps
Dimensions
; 26 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
GENERAL NOTES
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Selected conference papers.
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"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.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-133).
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.