Artifacts from the ancient Silk Road / William E. Mierse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mierse, William E., author.

Series:

Daily Life through Artifacts.

Daily Life through Artifacts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silk Road--Civilization.

Silk Road.

Eurasia--Antiquities.

Eurasia.

Eurasia--Civilization.

Asia, Central--Antiquities.

Asia, Central.

Asia, Central--Civilization.

Silk Road--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (liv, 403 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2022.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.

Contents:

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.

26 Sogdian-Style Gold Stem Cup from China

27 Pile Carpet from Kurgan 5, Pazyryk

28 Silver with Gold Sheet Overlay and Garnets Bow Brooch

29 Ceramic Bactrian Camel with Rider

30 Stone Frieze Fragment Showing Procession of Horse-Drawn Chariots

31 Ashoka Pillar

32 Lower Half of a Portrait of a Kushan King, Kanishka I

33 Silver Plate with the Image of Hormizd II Hunting

34 Golden Warrior (Reconstructed Costume)

35 Sheet-Gold Decoration for a Sword Scabbard

36 Silver Plaque in Form of a Recumbent Horse

37 Felt Saddle Cover with Leather, Fur, Hair, and Gold from Kurgan 1, Pazyryk

38 Phoenix-Headed Ewer with Three-Color Sancai Glaze and with an Applique of a Steppe Warrior in the Pose of the Parthian Shot

39 Graffito of a Cataphract or Roman Clibanarius from Dura Europos

40 Terracotta Head of Dionysus

41 Painted Terracotta Panel of a Worshiper Standing before God Shiva/Oesho

42 Ceremonial Gilt Silver Plate with Representation of Goddess Cybele

43 Relief of Atargatis and Hadad from Dura Europos

44 Sasanian Coin of Bahran IV (Wahrām IV) with Fire Altar Reverse Type

45 Reindeer Stag Horse Headdress from Kurgan 1, Pazyryk

46 Ceramic Bowl with Polychrome Decoration Including Crosses

47 Small, Bronze, Seated Buddha with Traces of Gilding

48 Infant Mummy

49 Bronze Reliquary Box

50 Mullah Kurgan Ossuary, Afrasiab Museum, Samarkand

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-18371-6

979-82-16-18421-8

1-4408-5829-2

OCLC:

1341400051