In search of cultural identities in West and Central Asia : a festschrift for Prudence Oliver Harper / edited by Henry P. Colburn, Betty Hensellek and Judith A. Lerner.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Harper, Prudence Oliver, honouree.
• Colburn, Henry P., editor.
• Hensellek, Betty, editor.
• Lerner, Judith A., editor.

Series:

• Inner and Central Asian art and archaeology ; 3.
• Inner and Central Asian art and archaeology ; III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asia, Central--History.
• Middle East--History.
• Asia, Central--Antiquities.
• Middle East--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

441 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]

Summary:

• "How do we reconstruct ancient societies? cultural and visual identities? Prudence Oliver Harper has dedicated her scholarly and curatorial career to piecing together the material culture of communities across ancient Western Asia, Iran, and Central Asia. A number of her colleagues - art historians, archaeologists, philologists, and conservators - have contributed essays to this volume to reflect Harper's range of contributions throughout her six-decade career. Many of the essays focus on ancient metalwork, Harper's major expertise, while others on glyptics, ivory, or glass, three of her other interests. The essays aim to make sense of this region's diverse cultural identities, many of which are the results of cross-cultural exchange. Some authors have employed iconographical or socio-historical approaches; others have complementarily opened new facets of cultural identities through technical and scientific analyses, collection history, and provenance research."--Publisher description.
• How do we reconstruct ancient societies? cultural and visual identities? Prudence Oliver Harper has dedicated her scholarly and curatorial career to piecing together the material culture of communities across ancient Western Asia, Iran, and Central Asia. A number of her colleagues - art historians, archaeologists, philologists, and conservators - have contributed essays to this volume to reflect Harper's range of contributions throughout her six-decade career. Many of the essays focus on ancient metalwork, Harper's major expertise, while others on glyptics, ivory, or glass, three of her other interests. The essays aim to make sense of this region's diverse cultural identities, many of which are the results of cross-cultural exchange. Some authors have employed iconographical or socio-historical approaches; others have complementarily opened new facets of cultural identities through technical and scientific analyses, collection history, and provenance research.

Contents:

• Foreword / Kim Benzel
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Prudence Oliver Harper: Curator and Scholar / Judith A. Lerner, Betty Hensellek, and Henry P. Colburn
• Bibliography of Prudence Oliver Harper / Judith A. Lerner and Henry P. Colburn
• Materials and Methods. Textile Decorations in Sasanian Stucco Panels at Bandyan (Khorasan, Iran) / Matteo Compareti
• Bringing Order Out of Chaos: Connoisseurship as a Fundamental Tool / Georgina Herrmann
• Bronze Casting in the Near East and Surrounding Areas / Pieter Meyers
• Sasanian Skeuomorphs: the Influence of Metalware on the Glass Industry / St John Simpson
• Silver for Justinian: Lead Isotope Analyses of Sixth- and Seventh-Century Silver Artifacts / K. Aslihan Yener
• Sasanian and Sogdian Silver. The Many Lives of the Silver Saiga Rhyton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Betty Hensellek
• Aquatic Imagery on Silverware Attributed to the Sasanian Period / Kate Masia-Radford
• The Enduring Memory of Iranian Antiquity in Islamic Iran / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani
• A Silver Vessel with a Sogdian Inscription from Chach / Nicholas Sims-Williams and Bi Bo
• Mediterranean and Central Asian Connections. Central Anatolia and the Mediterranean: Art and the Materials of Interaction / Joan Aruz and Annie Caubet
• On the Date and Cultural Context of Aurel Stein's Gilgit Rhyton / Henry P. Colburn
• Facing Dionysus at Silenus' Banquet in Tokharistan: A Possible Echo of a Greco-Roman Mystic Circle on a Fourth-Fifth Century "Bactrian" Silver Bowl in The al-Sabah Collection (LNS 1560M) / Anca Dan and Frantz Grenet
• Thoughts on a Reused Roman Seal with a Middle Persian Inscription / Judith A. Lerner
• Fishing among the Flowers on a Roman Silver Cup / Andrew Oliver
• Forerunners of Old Elamite Culture in Bronze Age Kerman / Holly Pittman
• Once More Identity at Tillya Tepe: the Iron Artifacts from Burial 2 / Karen S. Rubinson
• History and Historiography. Professor Pope and Dr. Phyllis Ackerman: Carpets and the Study of Persian Textiles / Carol Bier
• Notes on the Creative Mind of Ardashir I / Martha L. Carter
• A Statue from Hatra in the Basrah Museum / John E. Curtis and Vesta Sarkosh Curtis
• Marie-Thérèse Dubalen and the Ancient Near Eastern Study Collection / Anne Dunn-Vaturi
• Yazd, une province de l’empire sassanide / Rika Gyselen
• Revisiting the Ctesiphon Excavations of 1928-29 and How the Met's Trustees Saved the Second Campaign in 1931-32 / Jens Kröger
• Author Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9782503604381
• 2503604382

OCLC:

1446188506

Publisher Number:

9782503604381