Format:
1 online resource (460 pages)
ISBN:
9781440858291
Series Statement:
Daily Life Through Artifacts
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Was the World of the Ancient Silk Road? -- Alphabetical Entries -- Amazons -- Animal Style -- Banqueting -- City Planning -- Coinage -- Domestication of the Horse -- Funerary Practices -- Indus Valley Civilization -- Linguistic and Genetic Studies -- Monasticism -- Nomad Kingdoms and Empires -- Persepolis Apadana Reliefs -- Persistence of Classicism -- Shamanism, Ancient Central Asian -- Silk -- Texts and Archaeology -- Texts and Translations -- Travelers, Early -- Wool Working and Carpet Making -- Zoroastrianism -- Artifacts -- 1 Ceiling Tile from Dura Europos with Portrait of Heliodoros -- 2 Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya -- 3 Funerary Relief with Banquet Scene -- 4 Adult Man's Caftan -- 5 Vase with Four Scenes in Repoussé Technique Showing Aspects of Scythian Life -- 6 Gold Belt End -- 7 Photograph of a Turkmen Woman in Her Finery in Front of Her Yurt -- 8 Gold Relief Foil Griffin Ornaments -- 9 Representation of Architecture from a Relief Fragment -- 10 Stucco Architectural Roundel with Palmettes from a Window -- 11 Stone Lintel Frieze of the Parinirvana -- 12 Bronze Throne Leg with Griffin -- 13 Early-20th-Century Yurt -- 14 Bronze Cauldron on a High Rounded Foot -- 15 Two Musicians on an Architectural Bracket -- 16 Female Figures on a Gilt Silver Ewer -- 17 Gilt Silver Bowl with Scenes Arranged on the Exterior -- 18 Gilt Silver Objects with Figural and Vegetal Decoration -- 19 Gold Tetradrachm of Demetrios I (222-180 BCE) -- 20 Bronze Coin with Square Hole -- 21 Silk Taquete with Patterned Thread -- 22 Two Fragments of a Silk Samite with Hunters Enclosed in Roundels -- 23 Still Life with Peaches and Glass of Water -- 24 Ivory Statuette of a Partially Nude Female Figure -- 25 Faceted Glass Bowl.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781440858284
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mierse, William E. Artifacts from the ancient Silk Road Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2023 ISBN 9781440858284
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mittelasien
;
Zentralasien
;
Seidenstraße
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichte 3000 v. Chr.-800
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