An edition of Afghanistan
(2012)
Afghanistan
forging civilizations along the Silk Road
by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino
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2012
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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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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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