Afghanistan : forging civilizations along the Silk Road
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Aruz, Joan
, [HerausgeberIn]
Fino, Elisabetta Valtz , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New Haven : New York :
Yale University Press ; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2012
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 134 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 26 cm. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
