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L'Asia centrale occidentale tra il IV e il VI sec. d.C. Profilo archeologico di un controverso periodo storico
Full text linkThe problem concerning the alleged ancestry of the “European Huns” from the Xiongnu has always attracted the attention of many scholars and has its roots in the theory advanced in 1758 by Joseph de Guignes, who identified the two groups mainly on the basis of the phonetic similarity of the names. The same “hunnic” origin, that is xiongnu, has been attributed by many scholars to a series of lineages conventionally named “Iranian Huns”, to distinguish them from the much better known ones those that arrived in Eastern Europe around 370 AD. These are the Chionites, the Kidarites, the Ephthalites, the Alkhans and the Nēzak, who, according to the most accredited hypothesis by scholars, would have originally belonged to an ethnic group of an indefinite nature that, around the middle of the 4th century AD, migrated from the previously area part of the xiongnu potentate, to reach the central Asian regions, where they imposed their control until the 6th century AD.
The purpose of this research, whose protagonists are the “Iranian Huns”, was to verify the truthfulness of this historical reconstruction, based only on philological data somewhat controversial. In light of the most recent approaches in the study of the interpretation and identification of migratory phenomena in archaeology and considering the most recent research that rethinks the concept of ethnicity, this study investigated the supposed “hunnic/xiongnu” origins of the “Iranian Huns” through the comparison between the archaeological evidence in western central Asia and those attributed to the Xiongnu in Mongolia, in Transbaikalia (southern Siberia) and in the Altai. From the comparison of these data, no connection seems to emerge between the “Iranian Huns” and the Xiongnu that could support the migratory hypothesis. There is instead a profound relationship between the Sogdiana and the region of the middle Sir Darya, to let us suppose large migration flows
Premessa/Foreword
No full textprefazione al volume che raccoglie trentasei scritti di oltre quaranta autori, offerti a Pierfrancesco Callieri in occasione del suo 65° compleann
Bodhisattva Bhaishajyaraja, ‘The Healing King:’ Intertwined Religious Cultures: Buddhism, and Hinduism
No full textThe valleys of what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan were home to thriving Buddhist kingdoms, where ancient Indian, Western, and Central Asian civilizations met. The paper discusses a bronze statue of the Healing King, which reflects the mixed iconography of Hindu and Buddhist Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions.
Adorned with plants and gems, the bodhisattva’s main attribute, a bowl with healing fruit, denotes his medicinal powers
Art and Landscape : Anna Filigenzi, Art and Landscape, Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna, with contributions by Luca M. Olivieri and a note by Peter Rockwell, 2015
No full textFussman Gérard. Art and Landscape : Anna Filigenzi, Art and Landscape, Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna, with contributions by Luca M. Olivieri and a note by Peter Rockwell, 2015. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 71, 2016. pp. 175-179
Art and Landscape : Anna Filigenzi, Art and Landscape, Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna, with contributions by Luca M. Olivieri and a note by Peter Rockwell, 2015
No full textFussman Gérard. Art and Landscape : Anna Filigenzi, Art and Landscape, Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna, with contributions by Luca M. Olivieri and a note by Peter Rockwell, 2015. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 71, 2016. pp. 175-179
Das Antlitz des Fremden : die Münzprägung der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und Indien
No full textIn the collective memory of western and eastern civilizations the Huns more than any other people symbolize the menace of migrating nomadic peoples from the steppes of Asia in late antiquity. Over time, “Huns” referred to a number of different peoples, from the tribes against whose onslaught the Chinese built the Great Wall to the formations under the command of Attila († AD 453) who devastated Europe. However, the Huns and their Turkish successors were much more effective in Central Asia and northern India where they established themselves in the 4th century, profoundly influencing the region’s culture and history
Le forme della città. Iran, Gandhāra e Asia Centrale. Scritti offerti a Pierfrancesco Callieri in occasione del suo 65° compleanno
Full text linkThis volume brings together contributions from 43 of Pierfrancesco Callieri's colleagues on the archaeology of cities from Iran to Central Asia to Pakistan (Gandhara)
From Tol-e Takht to the Persian Gulf: Pierfrancesco Callieri and the Landscapes of Ancient Fars
No full textThis paper reviews the achievements of the Joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars in studying the landscape and urbanism of ancient Fars while suggesting additional interpretations for some of these relevant findings. The paper concludes with a review of two of Pierfrancesco Callieri’s most important remarks on the relationship between water and landscapes
A Note on the Relationship between Some Ghaznavid and Byzantine Graffita Wares
No full text(To Maurizio Taddei, eds Pierfrancesco Callieri e Anna Filigenzi
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