Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

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Half Title
Series
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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
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