東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Begram: New perspectives on the ivor...

Mehendale, Sanjyot.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings./
作者:	Mehendale, Sanjyot.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1997,
面頁冊數:	697 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International59-07A.
標題:	Art History. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9803296
ISBN:	9780591527292

Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings.
Mehendale, Sanjyot.

Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1997 - 697 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The focus of this dissertation is the ivory and bone finds of an early historical period site in modern Afghanistan known as Begram, and what they may suggest about the site and the nature and extent of cultural exchange along the period's Silk Roads of Central Asia. Early efforts to date the objects suggested that certain pieces could be placed several centuries apart. Based on this dating and influenced by notions of the site as an ancient royal city, consistent with reigning archaeological paradigms, the excavators and virtually all subsequent scholarship contended that the objects had been found in a summer Kushan dynastic palace and that they had been gathered there over several centuries, as a royal treasure. This dissertation seeks to reexamine the finds, to deconstruct the original royal treasure theory, and to posit a different view of the artifacts and of the nature of the settlement. Stylistic reexamination of the finds supports the likelihood that the ivory and bone pieces were all produced contemporaneously in the 1st or early 2nd century CE. Comparison with analogous finds in Pompeii and sites in India and Central Asia supports this 1st century date, as does dating of the site's Chinese lacquers and Roman ware. New categorizations for the ivory and bone objects are presented, and early reconstructions of the objects are reviewed, and refuted where appropriate. Rather than relying solely on stylistic analysis of the pieces, this dissertation also places the finds in their archaeological context, which suggests that the site may not have been a royal palace but rather a significant trading settlement of the Kushan empire, well situated along crucial trade routes. By close stylistic comparison with finds at other Central Asian sites along the Silk Roads, the dissertation argues further that an amalgam of styles in certain Begram objects suggests local Central Asian production in a richly diverse cultural environment. The dissertation seeks to demonstrate that while some of the extraordinary carved ivory and bone objects may have moved to the site along trade routes which linked India with China and the Graeco-Roman West, others of these objects may have been produced at Begram itself, by local workshops and artisans.

ISBN: 9780591527292Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings.
LDR:03378nmm a2200325 4500 001 2210049
005 20191112103812.5
008 201008s1997 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780591527292
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI9803296
035 $a AAI9803296
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Mehendale, Sanjyot. $3 3437174
245 1 0 $a Begram: New perspectives on the ivory and bone carvings.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 1997
300 $a 697 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Azarpay, Guitty.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
506 $a This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.
520 $a The focus of this dissertation is the ivory and bone finds of an early historical period site in modern Afghanistan known as Begram, and what they may suggest about the site and the nature and extent of cultural exchange along the period's Silk Roads of Central Asia. Early efforts to date the objects suggested that certain pieces could be placed several centuries apart. Based on this dating and influenced by notions of the site as an ancient royal city, consistent with reigning archaeological paradigms, the excavators and virtually all subsequent scholarship contended that the objects had been found in a summer Kushan dynastic palace and that they had been gathered there over several centuries, as a royal treasure. This dissertation seeks to reexamine the finds, to deconstruct the original royal treasure theory, and to posit a different view of the artifacts and of the nature of the settlement. Stylistic reexamination of the finds supports the likelihood that the ivory and bone pieces were all produced contemporaneously in the 1st or early 2nd century CE. Comparison with analogous finds in Pompeii and sites in India and Central Asia supports this 1st century date, as does dating of the site's Chinese lacquers and Roman ware. New categorizations for the ivory and bone objects are presented, and early reconstructions of the objects are reviewed, and refuted where appropriate. Rather than relying solely on stylistic analysis of the pieces, this dissertation also places the finds in their archaeological context, which suggests that the site may not have been a royal palace but rather a significant trading settlement of the Kushan empire, well situated along crucial trade routes. By close stylistic comparison with finds at other Central Asian sites along the Silk Roads, the dissertation argues further that an amalgam of styles in certain Begram objects suggests local Central Asian production in a richly diverse cultural environment. The dissertation seeks to demonstrate that while some of the extraordinary carved ivory and bone objects may have moved to the site along trade routes which linked India with China and the Graeco-Roman West, others of these objects may have been produced at Begram itself, by local workshops and artisans.
590 $a School code: 0028.
650 4 $a Art History. $3 635474
650 4 $a Archaeology. $3 558412
690 $a 0377
690 $a 0324
710 2 $a University of California, Berkeley. $3 687832
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 59-07A.
790 $a 0028
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 1997
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9803296