Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 13 (2015)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In Memoriam: Khaled al-Asaad 1932-2015
ARTICLES
Safe Journey! A Very Short History of Shoes from Korean Tombs
Youngsook Pak
The Emergence of Light: A Re-interpretation of the Painting of Mani’s Birth in a Japanese Collection
Wang Yuanyuan
When Herakles Followed the Buddha: Power, Protection and Patronage in Gandharan Art
Jonathan Homrighausen
Ancient Iranian Decorative Textiles: New Evidence from Archaeological Investigations and Private Collections
Matteo Compareti
Nomads and Oasis Cities: Central Asia from the 9th to the 13th Century
Xinru Liu
Maes Titianus, Ptolemy, and the “Stone Tower” on the Great Silk Road
Igor’ Vasil’evich P’iankov
The Location of Ptolemy’s Stone Tower: the Case for Sulaiman-Too in Osh
Riaz Dean
The Test Excavation of the Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck in 2011: a Detail Leading to the Whole
Xu Yongjie
The Archaeological Assessment of Pajadagh Fortress (Qal’a-e Tashvir), Tashvir Village, Tarom County, Zanjan Province
Ali Nourallahi
Khermen Denzh Town in Mongolia
Nikolai N. Kradin, Aleksandr L. Ivliev, Ayudai Ochir, Lkhagvasüren Erdenebold, Sergei Vasiutin, Svetlana Satantseva, and Evgenii V. Kovychev
The Chinese Inscription on the Lacquerware Unearthed from Tomb 20, Gol Mod I Site, Mongolia
Chimiddorj Yeruul-Erdene and Ikue Otani
The Ancient Tamga-Signs of Southeast Kazakhstan and Their Owners: The Route from East to West in the 2nd Century BCE-2nd Century CE
Alexei E. Rogozhinskii and Sergey A. Yatsenko
Museum Collections: Assyrian-style Seals of the Silk Road and Their Relationship to Ties between Iran and Mesopotamia
Amir Saed Mucheshi
“I was born a dervish and a Flying Dutchman.” Sven Hedin and Ferdinand von Richthofen: Introduction and Presentation of Unpublished Letters
Felix de Montety
Museum Collections, II: Berlin’s “Turfan Collection” Moves to the Center
Lilla Russell-Smith
The Mezquita: A Photo Essay
Daniel C. Waugh
BOOK REVIEWS
Belezza, The Dawn of Tibet
Sam van Schaik
The following by Daniel C. Waugh:
Rossabi, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia
Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia, with a photo supplement “Glimpses of the Pamirian Crossroads”
Akademicheskaia arkheologiia na beregakh Nevy,
Walter and Ito-Adler, eds. The Silk Road: Interwoven History. Vol. 1
Whitfield Life along the Silk Road, 2nd ed.
SHORT NOTICES
The following all written/compiled by Daniel Waugh:
- Shelach-Lavi, The Archaeology of Early China.
- Vadetskaia et al., Svod pamiatnikov Afanas’evskoi kul’tury.
- Selegin and Shelepova, Tiurkskie ritual’nye kompleksy Altaia.
- Zhuravliev et al., Iuvelirnye izdeliia iz kurgana Kul-Oba v sobranii Istoricheskogo Muzeia.
- Minasian, Metalloobrabotka v drevnosti i srednevekov’e.
- Jacobs, Reorienting the East. Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World.
- Kradin, Nomads of Inner Asia in Transition.
- Kradin and Ivliev, Istoriia Kidan’skoi imperii Liao (907-1125).
- Antonov, Srednevekovye bashkiry.
- Rossiiskie ekspeditsii v Tsentral’nuiu Aziiu. Organizatsiia, polevye issledovaniia, kollektsii 1870-1920-e gg.
- Lin, Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China’s Mount Wutai.
- Elikhina, “Obitel’ miloserdiia”. Iskusstvo tibetskogo buddizma: katalog vystavki.
- Bemmann and Schmauder, eds., Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium CE.
- Amitai and Biran, eds., Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors.
- Journal of Asian History, 49 (2015), 1/2. Special Edition, ed. Kauz: Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views on Central Asia and Its Adjacent Regions .
- Bulletin of the Asia Institute. N. S., Vol. 24 (2010) [2014].
- Bulletin of the Asia Institute. N. S., Vol. 25 (2011) [2015].
- Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, Vol. 6 (2011) [2015].