216 research outputs found
Ceramics from the excavations in the historic settlement at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot) Swat, Pakistan (1984-1992). Part 1: The study. Part 2: The materials
No full textLa monografia presenta i risultati dello studio dei più di 100.000 frammenti ceramici diagnostici provenienti dagli scavi 1984-1992 nel sito urbano di Barikot. Il volume 1, di L.M. Olivieri, costituisce l'elaborazione del materiale presentato nel volume 2, di P. Callieri.
Si tratta del principale lavoro sulla ceramica della regione gandharica mai pubblicato, e la provenienza da scavi stratigrafici ha reso possibile produrre quella sequenza ceramica per il periodo storico pre-islamico che sinora mancava nel Nord-Ovest del subcontinente indo-pakistano
Missione Archeologica Italiana dell'IsIAO in Pakistan
No full textSu licenza del Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, la Missione Archeologica Italiana dell'IsIAO in Pakistan conduce ricerche nella valle dello Swat (Pakistan settentrionale) ininterrottamente dal 1956, rappresentando così una delle più antiche missioni archeologiche italiane in Asia.
Si articola in un'ampia serie di sotto-progetti con taglio cronologico e specialistico, dall pre- protostoria all'archeologia degli abitati di epoca storica pre-islamica, dall'archeologia buddhista a quella islamica, dalle ricerche paleobotaniche a quelle sulle tradizioni artigianali. Al suo attivo conta una serie importante di scavi (Butkara I, Saidu Sharif, Panr, Udegram Bazar e Castello, Aligrama, Loebanr, Katelai), alcuni dei quali (Bir-kot-ghwandai, Moschea di Udegram) ancora gestiti direttamente negli aspetti scientifici e conservativi, e una ingentissima quantità di pubblicazioni, edite dall'IsIAO in lingua inglese.
P. Callieri dirige la Missione dal 2000
Achaemenid "ritual architecture" vs. "religious architecture": Reflections on the elusive archaeological evidence of the religion of the Achaemenids. Appendix by A. Askari Chaverdi, P Callieri: the monumental buidling of Tol-e Ajori (pp. 394-97).
No full textIn the frame of the congress dedicated by the Collège de France to the issue of the religion of Iran during the Achaemenid period, the author was asked to present a contribution regarding the archaeological evidence of Achaemenid age regarding religion. In his contribution, the author proposes the innovative distinction between a religious architecture, which for the Achaemenids has practically no archaeological evidence, and a ritual architecture, in which many Achaemenid buildings can be included. Shifting the focus of interpretation from a religious architecture to a ritual architecture allows a new approach to the Achaemenid world which appears much more fit to a correct understanding. In an appendix written with Alireza Askari Chaverdi, the authors also present the newly discovered monument of Tol-e Ajori, for which at the time of the conference a ritual function seemed possible (an interpretation which successive excavations have modified)
Cultural Contacts Between Rome and Persia at the Time of Ardashir I (c. AD 224–40).
No full textThe relationship between Rome and Persia in the Sasanian era has attracted the attention of many scholars. Historians have devoted detailed studies to the intensified political and military contacts following Ardashir I’s accession to the throne of Iran. Most art historians and archaeologists, by contrast, have argued that cultural contacts between Rome and Sasanian Persia were only established under Shapur I. There is, however, architectural and artistic evidence to suggest that such contacts commenced in fact already during the reign of Ardashir I. As far as architecture is concerned, D. Huff has made a persuasive case that architects and masons from the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire were involved in the construction of the fire-temple in the city of Ardashir Xwarrah (Firuzabad).
This chapter argues that rock reliefs also imply similar cultural influence, even though the case is more difficult to prove. The author examines the chronology of the five rock reliefs accomplished under Ardashir, as well as the workshops involved in producing them. The earliest relief, at Firuzabad I, shows traits characteristic for Elymaean craftsmen. Subsequently, new techniques and styles appear, and the relief at Naqsh-e Rostam I seems to imitate Persepolitan sculpture. Since numismatic evidence suggests that the reliefs were all carved within about ten years, only the involvement of experienced sculptors, perhaps from the Syro-Mesopotamian regions invaded by Ardashir, can explain such major and rapid change of style
New Evidence for Buddhist “Caves” from Panr I (Swat, Pakistan)
No full textThe author illustrates the discovery of cave dwellings of a Buddhist settlement in the valley of Swat (Northern Pakistan), with a critical overview of this particular type of "dug" architecture in the area and in further regions
Bishapur. The Palace and the Town
No full textThe author reviews the evidence regarding the localization of the Palace of the Sasanian king Shabuhr I at Bishapur. Accepting the interpretation as a sacred building proposed by Massoud Azarnoush for the large complex at the NW corner of the town, the author suggests that the palce of the king must be searched for in the so-called Qal'e-ye Dokhtar, overlloking the town at its N limit and till now considered only a forteress. The reasons for this interpretation are on one side the tradition of Ardashir I, father of Shabuhr I, on the other the tradition of the Hellenistic-Roman world, which Shabuhr met during his conquest of Syria
La materia dell'umano. Jervis, De Martino, Callieri
No full textUna riflessione sulla divergenza tra De Martino e i suoi allievi Jervis e Callieri; sullo sfondo, la posta in gioco dell'antropologia demartiniana, divisa tra materialismo e spiritualismo
Review of E. Errington & V. Sarkhosh Curtis, "From Persepolis to the Punjab. Exploring Ancient Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan", London, British Museum, 2007
No full textThe review of the volume published by the British Museum is taken as an opportunity to correct several errors appearing in the publication and to underline the total ignorance of non-British contribution to the field of the volume, in particular those of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan, directed by the author
Domenico Faccenna (1923-2008)
No full textThe author traces the biography of the great archaeologist prof. Domenico Faccenna, one of the most influential authorities in the field of Buddhist architecture and art, who passed away in 2008. Having collected information regarding all the phases of the life of Domenico Faccenna and on his manyfold activities, a special stress is placed on the Oriental section of his biography. A comprehenisve bibliography has been traced with the collaboration of Claudio Faccenna.
L’articolo ricorda al pubblico internazionale del periodico in lingua inglese “East and West” la figura del grande studioso di architettura ed arte buddhista, Domenico Faccenna, fondatore della Missione Archeologica Italiana dell’IsMEO in Pakistan, scomparso nel 2008 e, partendo dalla descrizione analitica della sua imponente opera, evidenzia i concetti fondamentali che emergono dell’unico studio dell’arte del Gandhara basato su una meticolosa attività di scavo
L'esperienza della Missione Archeologica dellìIsIAO nella valle dello Swat, Pakistan
No full textIntervento presentato alla Conferenza "I lunedi della Crociera", Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte di Roma, 23 novembre 2009, relativo all'attività della Misione Archeologic Italiana dell'IsIAO in Pakistan negli anni turbolenti dei conflitti regionali
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