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Post-Gandharan Swat. Late Buddhist rock sculptures and Turki Śāhi’s religious centres
No full textThe article aims at framing in one and the same context different pieces of archaeological evidence from Swat .having in common a Hindu affiliation, in particular rock sculptures representing Surya, the Vaisnava temple of Barikot and the still unexcavated site of Tindo-dag. Significant chronological, topographic and ideological connections have been detected and highlighted. Especially when considered together, they provide the first, important witness to non-buddhist cults during the period that we can label as Śāhi or, more precisely, judging from the archaeological context, Turki Śāhi (7th century CE). Thus, rock reliefs of non-Buddhist subjects (an apparently anomaly in an otherwise coherently Buddhist context, can no more to be regarded as the extemporaneous expression of some unknown will but as the outcome of a foreign culture that had to find its own space in a stranger land and
among its rooted traditions
Surya, the Solar Kingship and the Turki Shahi. New Acquisition on the Cultural History of Swat.
No full textG. Fussman, B. Murad, E. Ollivier, Monuments bouddhiques de la region de Caboul * Kabul Buddhist Monuments
No full textSchede descrittive relative al progetto “The cultural history of Uddiyana 4th to 8th century CE. FWF Stand-alone Project P21902 ÖAW - Numismatische Kommission”.
No full textThe data-base contains the analytical description and photographic documentation of about two hundred Buddhist rock sculptures, which have been surveyed over the years by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. The entries in this db are the result of a long process of reconnaissance and identification of the iconographic subjects, which laid the groundwork for a monograph published in 201
Il Bodhisattva Maitreya nell’arte rupestre dello Swat. Appunti sull’iconografia e sul culto del Buddha venturo
No full textData-base for the computerized cataloguing of the Saidu Sharif Archaeological Museum (Pakistan): Consulenza scientifica: gerarchia concettuale e vocabolari scientifici
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