Afghanistan : [electronic resource] forging civilizations along the Silk Road /
Afghanistan : forging civilizations along the Silk Road / [electronic resource]
Forging civilizations along the Silk Road
edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino.
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012
- 1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations
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.
9781588394521
ART, ANCIENT--AFGHANISTAN --CONGRESSES
N 7292 / A33 2012
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.
9781588394521
ART, ANCIENT--AFGHANISTAN --CONGRESSES
N 7292 / A33 2012