Volume 14 (2016)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor’s Desktop. The Future of The Silk Road

ARTICLES

Reconstruction of a Scythian Saddle from Pazyryk Barrow No. 3
Elena V. Stepanova

An Image of Nighttime Music and Dance in Tang Chang’an: Notes on the Lighting Devices in the Medicine Buddha Transformation Tableau in Mogao Cave 220, Dunhuang
Sha Wutian

The Results of the Excavation of the Yihe-Nur Cemetery in Zhengxiangbai Banner (2012-2014)
Chen Yongzhi, Song Guodong, and Ma Yan

Art and Religious Beliefs of Kangju: Evidence from an Anthropomorphic Image Found in the Ugam Valley (Southern Kazakhstan)
Aleksandr Podushkin

Observations on the Rock Reliefs at Taq-i Bustan: A Late Sasanian Monument along the “Silk Road”
Matteo Compareti

Sino-Iranian Textile Patterns in Trans-Himalayan Areas
Mariachiara Gasparini

Some Notes on Dayuezhi, Daxia, Guishuang, and Dumi in Chinese Sources
Yang Juping

The Place Names of Euro-Africa in the Kangnido
Nurlan Kenzheakhmet

Technology Transfer from Ancient Egypt to the Far East?
Alessandra R. Giumlía-Mair

Production of Bronze Wares among the Xiongnu
Sergei S. Miniaev, with a Preface by William Honeychurch

Orgoiton—A Xiongnu Cemetery in Transbaikalia
Nikolai N. Nikolaev and Sergei S. Miniaev

Newly Discovered Petroglyphs of Hurand County
Reza Salmanpoor, Zahra Abtahi, and Mina Ranjbar

Museum Collections, I: A Gift of Steppe Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation to the Miami University Art Museum
Trudy S. Kawami, Daniel Prior, and Robert S. Wicks

Fastening the Buckle: A Strand of Xiongnu-Era Narrative in a Recent Kirghiz Epic Poem
Daniel Prior

Women’s Status in the Iron Age Based on Ethno-archaeological Studies of the West Central Zagros Nomads
Ali Nourallahi

Game Pieces of Knucklebones: Evidence about the Continuation of Local Games in Khorasan, Iran
Hadi Sabori, Hasan Basafa, Esmaeil Hejininezhad, Reza Bolandi, and Mina Norouzi Khorasani

“Zandaniji Silks”: The Story of a Myth
Zvezdana Dode

Museum Collections, II: Discoveries from the Sinan Shipwreck
Lee Myong Ok

The Silk Roads at the National Museum of Korea: A Visual Introduction
Daniel C. Waugh

BOOK REVIEWS

Dreyer, Abenteuer Seidenstraße
Jan Bemmann

Jacobson-Tepfer, The Hunter, the Stag and the Mother of Animals
Bryan K. Miller

Exhibitions in Retrospect: Meyer and Wandel., Shahnama; Zhao, ed., Silks from the Silk Road; Agnew, Reed, and Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang
Daniel C. Waugh

SHORT NOTICES

The following all written/compiled by Daniel Waugh:

  • Kolesnikov, Sasanidskii Iran. Istoriia i kul’tura.
  • P’iankov, Sredniaia Aziia i Evraziiskaia step’ v drevnosti.
  • Vedeler, Silk for the Vikings.
  • Wertmann, Sogdians in China.
  • Kuznetsov and Kuznetsov, Feodal’nyi gorod Severnogo Kavkaza (srednevekovyi Derbent v VI-XIII vv.).
  • Mys’kov, Kochevniki Volgo-Donskoi stepei v epokhu Zolotoi Ordy.
  • Teleki, Introduction to the Study of Urga’s Heritage.
  • Majer and Teleki, Reviving the Cam Dance Tradition in Mongolia.
  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute. N. S., Vol. 26 (2012) [2016].
  • Xiyu Wenshi. Literature and History of the Western Regions, Vol 9 (2015); Vol. 10 (2016).

 

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