Afghanistan
Subtitle: forging civilizations along the Silk Road
By: edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino ; [with contributions by Paul Bernard ... et al.].
Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia; Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press; Brand: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780300179545
Subjects: Ancient Art; Congresses; Antiquities
Other titles: Forging civilizations along the Silk Road
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).
Table of contents: title: Map of the Silk Road; title: Introduction / Joan Aruz; title: At the crossroads of Asia : a history of the National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi; title: The Bronze Age world of Afghanistan / Fredrik T. Hiebert; title: Chronology: western, central, and east Asia after Alexander; title: Coins : "The great guides of the historian" / Frank L. Holt; title: Aï Khanum : a Greek colony in post-Alexandrian Central Asia, or how to be Greek in an Oriental milieu / Paul Bernard; title: The glass from Begram / David Whitehouse; title: The Begram carvings : itinerancy and the problem of "Indian" art / Sanjyot Mehendale; title: Bactrian gold : jewelry workshop traditions at Tillya Tepe / Jane Hickman; title: Tillya Tepe and its connections with the Eurasian steppes / Henri-Paul Francfort; title: Tillya Tepe : echoes of Greece and China / John Boardman; title: Links, missing and otherwise : Tillya Tepe and East Asia / Denise Patry Leidy.