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Archeologia delle “Vie della Seta”: Percorsi, Immagini e Cultura Materiale, IV ° Ciclo di Conferenze, 25 Marzo-6 maggio 2015 - ISBN:9788867191277 Caterina, L.; GENITO, Bruno;
No full textIl contenuto delle conferenze di questo ultimo ciclo hanno visto nell’ordine i seguenti relatori: Svetlana Gorshenina (Università di Losanna) con una conferenza dal titolo Invention de la notion d’Asie centrale: premières définitions et délimitations forgées dans les mondes russe et occidental modernes, Claude Rapin (CNRS) con un’altra conferenza dal titolo L’Asia centrale e le sue vie di comunicazione nell'Antichità, Roberta Venco-Ricciardi (Università di Torino) con una conferenza dal titolo Cristiani a Hatra e la diffusione della croce nel Golfo. La via marittima, Saerji (Peking University) con un’altra dal titolo The Relationship between Khotan and Tibet. Some Case Studies, Giuseppe Vignato (Peking University) con una conferenza dal titolo Searching for Silence in the Ancient Monasteries of Kuča - Meditating in the Mountain Caves, e Pierfrancesco Callieri (Università di Bologna) con la sua conferenza dal titolo Mobilità di artigiani tra Roma e la Persia nel periodo sasanide (III-VII sec. d.C.). Come è facile osservare anche quest’anno nelle conferenze proposte sono stati trattati temi scanditi su di un’ampia dilatazione geografica e cronologica; e tutto ciò a conferma di un’impostazione metodologica tenacemente perseguita in questo ciclo di lezioni dottorali che tendeva a disarticolare il vecchio concetto storiografico di Vie della Seta e ri-articolarlo secondo coordinate globali, provando a liberarlo dalla pesante e quasi esclusiva eredità di studio relativa alla produzione del tessuto “seta”, che non poteva essere stato, come è facile immaginare, il solo elemento di un ben più ampio mercato economico globale
Su un piatto d'argento di tradizione Sasanide
No full textOne of the first articles of the author where is published a silver dish of Sasanian tradition of unknown provenance. The stylistic and technical analysis of the author with the decipherment of the Pahlavi inscription made by a colleague allows the author, thus to have the possibility to outline the main objects of the that production, putting somewhat interpretative considerations on the silver dish
Hearths of the Iranian Area: A typological Analysis
No full textThe article is dealing with a proposal and a typological analysis of the numerous fireplaces and hearths found in the Iranian area from the Neolithic to the Achaemenian time, at the time of the work known and published. As the author clearly says, the premises of the work are connected to the possibilities of go back to the origin of the fire altar of the Zoroastrian religious ideology. This outline allows the author to make a long excursus on the excavations from the Plateau to the Central Asia (Margiana, Bactriana, Sogdiana etc.) where some regions will become the eastern satrapies of the Achaemenian time. In the meantime the article is also presenting an interesting classification of those structure divided for periods and geographic areas
The Archaeology of the Median period: an outline and a research perspective
No full textIn this article the author is dealing again, after twenty years, on the question of the archaeology of the Medes. The author puts new lights on the topics, adding new considerations specially on the relationship between the artistic and architectonic culture collected in the so called “Median” area, and the one described by the sources, mainly the Greek and Roman. An interesting point of view is related to the research perspectives that an Archaeology of the Medes could have in the area in the case of a re-opening of field activity there
Trial Trenches at Koj Tepa, Samarkand Area (Sogdiana)(Fourth Interim Report 2012)
No full textThe author describes the fourth season of excavation at Koj Tepa in ancient Sogdiana, in Uzbekistan. Special emphasis is given to the trenches 5, 6, already started in the previous campaign and in trench 9. In the latter the discovery of a massive wall structure in raw, yet of uncertain function, enriches the already complex nature of the settlement. It probably was founded in the Hellenistic and presents more chronological phases that by the time arrive until the second and first centuries B
Archaeological History of Iran: the Post-Achaemenid and Hellenistic Time (Archaeological Horizon in Fārs in Late Iron Age, or Iron Age IIIIV). A Review-Article
No full textThe use of the concept of ‘Late Iron Age’ within the scientific debate related to the archaeological
horizons of ancient Iran, going back to the 70s of last century, is strictly connected to the one of Iron Age III (Achaemenid Age) and IV (post-
Achaemenid). It was, also, resumed by Italian scholars dealing with Yaz horizons
in south Turkmenistan. This set of denominations and definitions
applied to the post-Achaemenid and Hellenistic age in Iran may seem a little stretch, and
finds its reason for being, nonetheless, in a long debated difficult and complicated attempt to
put at the same level the historical documentation and the archaeological horizons. This use, of
course questionable, is very much in line with new trends of a so called ‘militant’ archaeology.
The use of this denomination here has been emphasized within this review-article particularly
in some crucial points of a very well done and documented art-historical and historical approach
addressed by the Author. The volume in itself presents a detailed analysis in those
grounds of research and the fact that the archaeological horizons are practically not existent at all
(and this is certainly not due to the Author), makes sometimes very difficult to deal with them.
In writing this review-article the author has considered worth remembering his teacher Umberto Scerrato
to whom he was indebted along the whole course of his professional life and who practically
initiated the Archaeology of Iran of the historical time in Italy. He also was teaching
in the Università "L'Orientale" till 1975 and contributed very much together with other prestigious scholars
(Maurizio Taddei, Gherardo Gnoli) to the realization of a modern University where the archaeological
studies found their own collocation. It also seems to me beloved to remember that in 80s
He asked me to take care of the Achaemenid period in Fars and especially to start studying the
Persepolis plain since the pioneering studies of Sumne
Le Tribù Agro Pastorali di stirpe Iranica, nel I millennio a.C.: Sciti e Saka
No full textThe author in this short article included in a volume published for an exhibition held in 2007 at Trento entitled Ori dei cavalieri delle Steppe, Collezione dei Musei dell’Ucraina, and dealing with the golden objects of the nomadic huntsmen of the steppes, coming from the Ukrainian Museums, deals with the Iranian nomadic tribes as documented by the ancient sources. Starting from that documentation the article is also dealing with the traces of the related archaeological documentation
The Material Culture of the Medes: Limits and Perspectives in the Archaeological Research
No full textThe author in this article included in the volume dedicated to the memory of A. Bausani entitled Un ricordo che non si spegne, goes back to the Median questions emphasizing some particular aspects of the archaeological research to them related. The author is particularly dealing with the relationships between the concepts of state, artistic and architectonic production, and epigraphic evidence. Two of these grounds are completely absent in the documentation related to the Medes and a third, the artistic evidence, is still uncertain and full of difficult attribution
Italy VI, Italian Excavation in Iran (2) Excavations in Sistan
No full textThe author in this article of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, points out the historical aspects of the Italian presence in Sistan in the 60s of last century. Starting with the excavations at Shahr-i Sokhta important site of the Bronze Age, and arriving to that of the Achaemenid capital of Dahan-e Ghulaman, the author emphasizes the important role played by the Italian scholars in a particular regional area of Iran
Popoli, Archeologia e Storia nelle Steppe dei Kirghisi: Premessa, Archeologia Popoli e Storia delle Steppe: tra l'Iran e la Cina
No full textThe two articles are included in a volume published in the occasion of an exhibition of the archaeological remains of Kirghisistan, held in Naples in 2002 with the title Pastori Erranti dell’Asia: Popoli, Storia ed Archeologia nelle steppe dei Kirghisi. The exhibition present hundreds of objects representative of the ancient nomadic presence in that far country. The author emphasizes particularly the central role of that regional area between the Iranian and the Chinese sphere of influence
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