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