From Pella to Gandhara
Subtitle: hybridisation and identity in the art and architecture of the Hellenistic East
By: edited by Anna Kouremenos, Sujatha Chandrasekaran and Roberto Rossi ; with a foreword by Sir John Boardman
Series: BAR international series -- 2221; BAR international series -- 2221.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781407307794
Subjects: Hellenistic Art; Hellenistic Architecture; Art and architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Anna Kouremenos; title: Foreword / Sir John Boardman; title: Introduction / Roberto Rossi; title: Alcibiades, "a classical archetype for Alexander" / Michael Vickers; title: Hybridisation of palatial architecture: Hellenistic royal palaces and governors' seats / Maria Kopsacheili; title: 'Hellenising' the 'Cypriot goddess': 'reading' the Amathousian terracotta figurines / Giorgos Papantoniou; title: The ruins on Mount Karasis in Cilicia / Timm Radt; title: A hybridized Aphrodite: the anadyomene motif at Tel Kedesh / Lisa Ayla Çakmak; title: 'Hybrid' art, hellenism and the study of acculturation in the Hellenistic east: the case of Umm el-ʻAmed in Phoenicia / Jessica Nitschke; title: Cultural interaction and emergence of hybrids in the material culture of Hellenistic Mesopotamia: an interpretation of terractota figurines, ceramic ware and seal impressions / Sidsel Maria Westh-Hansen; title: Temple architecture in the Iranian world in the Hellenistic period / Michael Shenkar; title: Cultural convergence in Bactria: the votives from the Temple of the Oxos at Takht-i Sangin / Rachel Wood; title: From Gandharan trays to Gandharan Buddhist art: the persistence of Hellenistic motifs from the second century BC and beyond / Jessie Pons; title: The places in between: model and metaphor in the archaeology of Hellenistic Arachosia / Rachel Mairs; title: Conclusion / Sujatha Chandrasekaran.