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