On the Cusp of an Era
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004154513 |
| Open Library | OL9090004W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2007 - 2007 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 2 |
| h-index | 1 |
South Asian religious art became codified during the Kusana Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kusana Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kusana Art achieves greater clarity through analyses of the arts and cultures of the Pre Kusana World, those lands becoming the Empire. Fourteen papers in this book by leading experts on regional topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; art historical, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual studies represent the first coordinated effort having this focus
On the Cusp of an Era
Chapter Nine. Coinage from Iran to Gandhara – With special reference to divinities as coin types
This chapter discusses the development of coinage in the countries between Iran and Gandhāra in the three centuries between the eastern expedition of Alexander the Great (331-323 B.C.) and the coming of the Kuṣāṇas in the first century A.D. The Seleucid kings, the successors of Alexander in western Asia, developed the Hellenistic convention that the obverse side of silver coins normally carried the king's portrait, while the reverse was reserved …
Chapter Three. Passages to India
During middle of the second century B.C, groups of Śakas and Kuṣāṇas began to migrate from different areas of Central Asia to the frontiers of South Asia. A synthesis of literary references, historical inscriptions, and archaeological material helps to trace their paths to India between the second century B.C. to second century A.D. Stray finds, petroglyphs, and graffiti inscriptions from the Upper Indus region of the Northern Areas of Pakistan i…
Chapter Six. Barikot, an indo-greek urban center in Gandhara
In this chapter the excavations at Barikot represent an extremely important contribution. They show that, as for the Bactrian Greeks, as also for the Indo-Greeks. When in 1982 the excavations at the Buddhist sacred area of Saidu Sharif I came to an end, the then director of the Italian Archaeological Mission (ISIAO), Domenico Faccenna, agreed with the present writer that perhaps it was time to again enter the field of urban archaeology, after so …
On the Cusp of an Era
South Asian religious art became codified during the Kusana Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kusana Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kusana Art ach…
On the Cusp of an Era
South Asian religious art became codified during the Kusana Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kusana Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kusana Art ach…
On the Cusp of an Era
Chapter Nine. Coinage from Iran to Gandhara – With special reference to divinities as coin types
This chapter discusses the development of coinage in the countries between Iran and Gandhāra in the three centuries between the eastern expedition of Alexander the Great (331-323 B.C.) and the coming of the Kuṣāṇas in the first century A.D. The Seleucid kings, the successors of Alexander in western Asia, developed the Hellenistic convention that the obverse side of silver coins normally carried the king's portrait, while the reverse was reserved …
Chapter Three. Passages to India
During middle of the second century B.C, groups of Śakas and Kuṣāṇas began to migrate from different areas of Central Asia to the frontiers of South Asia. A synthesis of literary references, historical inscriptions, and archaeological material helps to trace their paths to India between the second century B.C. to second century A.D. Stray finds, petroglyphs, and graffiti inscriptions from the Upper Indus region of the Northern Areas of Pakistan i…
Chapter Six. Barikot, an indo-greek urban center in Gandhara
In this chapter the excavations at Barikot represent an extremely important contribution. They show that, as for the Bactrian Greeks, as also for the Indo-Greeks. When in 1982 the excavations at the Buddhist sacred area of Saidu Sharif I came to an end, the then director of the Italian Archaeological Mission (ISIAO), Domenico Faccenna, agreed with the present writer that perhaps it was time to again enter the field of urban archaeology, after so …
On the Cusp of an Era
South Asian religious art became codified during the Kusana Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kusana Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kusana Art ach…