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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Yale University Press, Brand: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language
English
Pages
134

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Subjects
Ancient Art, Congresses, Antiquities, Art, ancient, Art, afghanistan, Afghanistan, antiquities, Afghan Art, Mūzih-ʼi Kābul, Mūzah-ʼi Kābul
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Afghanistan

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Table of 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.

Edition 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-133).

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New York, New Haven, Conn
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Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia, Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
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Forging civilizations along the Silk Road

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Dewey Decimal Class
709.581
Library of Congress
N5360, N7292 .A35 2012, N7292 .A344 2012

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Pagination
viii, 134 p.
Number of pages
134

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OL27140277M
ISBN 10
0300179545
ISBN 13
9780300179545
LCCN
2014469635
OCLC/WorldCat
775027913, 812464212

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