Wine Cultures : Gandhāra and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antonetti, Claudia. lat

Series:

Antiquity Studies

Antiquity Studies ; v.40

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Drinking customs in art.

History, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

This volume examines the cultural, social, and historical significance of wine and intoxicating drinks in Gandhāra and neighboring regions, including Ancient Assyria, Arachosia, and present-day India. It is the result of the MALIWI project and features contributions from scholars exploring topics such as production techniques, drinking culture, and the role of wine in ancient societies. The work utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on literary, historical, linguistic, iconographic, and archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of wine's impact on these regions. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

3Introduction

9Intoxicating Nectars of Plenty

23The Gandhāric Roots of the Indian Symposion and Sympotic-like Elements in Buddhist Literature

55In Search of Regional/Local (deśī) Words for 'Intoxicant'in First-Millennium India

79Wine in India and Other Substances

103The Archaeology of Wine in the Southern Caucasus

123An Assyrian Winery in Khinis, Ancient Khanusa (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)

143Wine in Achaemenid Arachosia

167Wine in Gandhāra

217Beyond the Form

243Wine, Women and Royalty in Gandhāra

269Wine in the Gandhāran Epigraphic Corpus

297Strabo on Wine in Ancient India

1 Sanskrit and Prakrit in First Millennium India

2 The Tripartite Classification of Prakrit Words in 'tatsama, tadbhava, and deśī'

3 Prakrit Words Meaning 'Intoxicant' iu Uddyotana-sūri's Kuvalaya-mālā

4 Prakrit Words Meaning 'Intoxicant' in the Eleventh aṅga of the Jain Canon Known as Vivāgasuyaṃ

5 Deśī Words Meaning 'Intoxicant' in Hemacandra's Deśīnāmamālā

6 ?

1 The Drink of the Gods in South Asia

2 A Modern (Watered Down) Wine Debate

3 Towards an Anthropology of the Substances

4 The Palm Wine Variation: A Case Study

5 Conclusion: Winy Ontologies

1 Introduction

2 The Origins of Wine and Viticulture

3 Wine Culture in the Southern Caucasus from the Chalcolithic to the Late Second Millennium BC

4 From the First Millennium BC to the Late Antiquity: Wine Culture at the Crossroad Between East and West

5 Epilogue: A Still Living Tradition

2 Wine in Assyria

3 The Wine for the Empire Project

4 The Khinis Wine Production Area

5 Conclusions

2 Assessing Arachosia's Land: The Agricultural Potential for Viniculture and Viticulture

3 For the King's Table: Viniculture in Achaemenid Networks.

4 Drinking Cups in Arachosia: The Imperial and the Local

5 Conclusion

2 In the Land of Dionysus. Alexander's Itinerary Through the Kunar, Bajaur, and Swat Valleys

3 Dionysus from the Mediterranean to India

4 Dionysus Strikes Back: At the Origins of Dionysian Scenes in Gandhāran Art

5 Archaeology of Wine Making and Consumption in Swat

6 Archaeology of Wine Production

7 Wine Consumption Through Ceramics

8 Conclusions

2 The context

3 The Gandharan visual repertoire: A glimpse into archetypes and symbolic patterns

4 The Gandharan Revelry Scenes: The Saidu Sharif I Reliefs Again

5 Final remarks

2 Taxila

3 A Silver Hoard of Unknown Findspot

4 5. Another Silver Hoard of Unknown Findspot

5 6. The Dasht-e-Nawur Inscriptions

6 7. Wine and Buddhism in Gandhāra

7 8. The Goblet of Kharayosta and Indravarma

8 9. A Third Silver Hoard of Unknown Findspot

9 10. Conclusion and Outlook

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ISBN:

9788869698163

8869698165

OCLC:

1611792989