Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk RoadUniv of California Press, 13 Mar 2018 - 376 sayfa Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds. |
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The designs on the jade plaques used in the earrings 3 The design on the belt plaque from grave | |
Form of glass bowls found in Hepu and Guixian South China | |
Engraving of a wooden boat from the tomb of the king of Nan | |
Coin of Wima Kadphises | |
Tamgha of the Kushan kings used on the coins | |
Coin of Kaniška I | |
Coins of Huviškas 11 Coin of Vasudeva I | |
Plan of Sanchi Stupa | |
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A Hellenistic Glass Bowl | |
Structure of crystalline solid liquid and amorphous materials | |
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