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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings Actes de congrès Congresses Congrès |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Afghanistan. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2014469635 (OCoLC)775027913 |
Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan Aruz; Elisabetta Valtz Fino |
ISBN: | 9781588394521 1588394522 9780300179545 0300179545 |
OCLC Number: | 775027913 |
Notes: | "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"--Title page verso. |
Description: | viii, 134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia. |
Other Titles: | Afghanistan, hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. Forging civilizations along the Silk Road |
Responsibility: | edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino. |
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Abstract:
Examines objects from Afghanistan's antiquity - stone and terracotta architecture and sculpture, coins, ivories, and encrusted gold jewellery. This title explores such issues as the Hellenic presence in Bactria; relations between nomadic and sedentary populations; contacts with Rome, Iran, China, and India; and, more.
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