Coins, art, and chronology : [Vol. 1] : essays on pre-Islamic history of the Indo-Iranian borderlands /
edited by Michael Alram and Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter.
- Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999.
- viii, 498 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; Nr. 31 .
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse : Denkschriften ; 280. Bd. Veröffentlichungen der Numismatischen Kommission ; Bd. 33 .
- Denkschriften (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 280. Bd. Veröffentlichungen der Numismatischen Kommission ; 33. .
Selected papers from a symposium held Apr. 11-13, 1996, in Vienna, Austria. Academy publication.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Coins, Seals, and Cultural History -- Paul Bernard, Greek geography and literary fiction from Bactria to India: the case of the Aoroi and Taxila-- Osmund Bopearachchi, Recent coin hoard evidence on pre-Kushana chronology-- Robert Gibl, The Rabatak Inscription and the date of Kanishka-- Joe Cribb, The early Kushan kings: new evidence for chronology. Evidence from the Rabatak Inscription of Kanishka I-- Elizabeth Errington, Rediscovering the collections of Charles Masson-- Evgeny V. Zeymal, Tillya-Tepe within the context of the Kushan chronology-- Nicholas Sims-Williams, From the Kushan-Shahs to the Arabs. New Bactrian documents dated in the era of the Tochi inscriptions-- Alexander Nikitin, Notes on the chronology of the Kushano-Sasanian kingdom-- Judith Lerner, Some Central Asian seals in the Rosen collection-- Pierfrancesco Callieri, Huns in Afghanistan and the north-west of the Indian subcontinent: the glyptic evidence-- Rika Gyselen, Sasanian glyptic, an example of cultural interaction between the Hellenistic world and the Iranian world-- Vesta Sarkosh Curtis, Some observations on coins of Peroz and Kavad I-- Prudence O. Harper, Geographical location and significant imagery: Taq-i Bostan -- Francois Thiery, Sur les monnaies des Tiirgesh-- Art and Archaeology -- Haruko Tsuchiya, Tracing ancient routes in northern Pakistan. Field research (1991-1996) (Preliminary report)-- Maurizio Taddei, Chronological problems connected with Buddhist unbaked-clay sculpture from Afghanistan and surrounding areas-- Francine Tissot, Jewellery in Gandharan art: images and reality-- Tamara I. Zeymal, On the chronology of the Buddhist site of Kara tepe-- Chhaya Haesner, Paradise scenes in Central Asian art: autochthonous or modelled after Gandhara art?-- Valentina Raspopova, Gold coins and bracteates from Pendjikent-- Evgeny Lubo-Lesnichenko, Western motifs in the Chinese textiles of the early Middle Ages-- Jens Krdger, Laden with glass goods. From Syria via Iraq and Iran to the Famen -- Temple in China.