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Afghanistan : forging civilizations along the Silk Road
Title
Afghanistan : forging civilizations along the Silk Road / edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino
ISBN
9780300179545 (pbk.)
0300179545 (pbk.)
Published
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
viii, 134 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
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.
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Variant and related titles
Forging civilizations along the Silk Road.
Metropolitan Museum of Art publications.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2020
Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-133)
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.
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