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• Galambos, Imre [Browse]

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• East and West Series [More in this series]
• East and West Series ; v.18 [More in this series]

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This volume presents studies on Silk Road artefacts and manuscripts. Uniting historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators, Saved by Desert Sands provides powerful examples of how the study of material culture enriches our understanding of the Silk Roads.

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Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Informations
• Title Page
• Copyrights Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Conventions
• Illustrations
• Figures
• Tables
• Notes on the Contributors
• 1 Re-discovering Objects: Material Culture on the Silk Roads
• 1 Discovery and Re-discovery
• 2 Texts as Objects
• 3 Texts about Objects
• 4 Themes and Structure
• Suggested Further Reading on Silk Road History
• Bibliography
• 2 Insights into the Lives of Soldiers along the Hexi Corridor during the Western Han Dynasty
• Abstract
• 1 Archaeological Missions in Gansu
• 2 Surveillance Night and Day: Life in the Signal Towers of Dunhuang
• 3 Tower D3: Harsh Weather and Constant Repairs
• 4 Rations, Weapons, and Letters: Other Material Finds from Signal Towers and Outposts
• 5 Using Excavated Artefacts in the Study of Han Frontiers
• 3 Writing beyond Han Boundaries: A Scribal Primer at the Niya Site
• 1 Presentation of the Writing
• 2 Estimated Measurements for the Intact Strips
• 3 A Single Multi-strip Roll or Two Independent Witnesses?
• 4 The Users and Uses of the Cang Jie pian
• 4 Seals and Sealing Practices in the Kingdom of Kroraina
• 1 The Krorainan Documents
• 2 Sealing Systems
• 2.1 The Wooden Double-Tablets
• 2.2 The Leather Parchments
• 3 Krorainan Sealing Practices
• 4 Seal Ownership in Kroraina
• 4.1 Three Cases of Seal Ownership: Soṃjaka, Yitaka, and Vukto
• 5 Seal Designs and Motifs
• 5.1 Seals and Identity: The Case of Ṣamasena
• 6 The Origin of Krorainan Sealing Devices
• 7 Krorainan Seals in Context
• 5 The Social Life of a Tang Silver Dish
• 1 The Kempe Dish in the West
• 2 The Kempe Dish in Tang China
• 3 Shipwrecks, Scales, and Howdah: Understanding the Kempe Rhinoceros.
• 3.1 The Belitung Shipwreck
• 3.2 Questions Raised Concerning the Rhinoceros and the Howdah
• 4 A Likely Life Story
• 6 A Pensive Prince or a Languid Lady? Tang Ceramics of Women Seated on Hourglass Stools
• 1 Tang Ceramics of Seated Women
• 2 The Function(s) of Tang Ceramics of Seated Women
• 3 Records of Hourglass Stools in China
• 4 A Pensive Lady or a Lady at Leisure?
• 5 Wine Vessels and Possible Iranian Influences
• 6 Posing the Tang Beauty
• 7 Dali Daggers: Buddhist Material Culture on the Southern Silk Road
• 1 Kīla, Indrakīla, Yūpa: Cosmic Pegs in South Asia
• 2 Phur pa, Phur bu: Ritual Daggers in the Himalayas
• 3 Dali-Kingdom Daggers
• 3.1 Buddhism in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms
• 3.2 Daggers and Deities in Dali-Kingdom Texts and Art
• 3.3 Dali Daggers
• 4 Daggers on the Southern Silk Road
• 8 Reconsidering Stein Painting 14 of the Jinshan Kingdom in Tenth-Century Dunhuang
• 1 'Depicting the True Likeness'
• 2 Yanhui and Zhang Youcheng
• 3 The Tang-Dynasty Tianfu Reign Title
• 4 The Kingdom of Jinshan
• 5 A Chinese Bodhisattva with Non-Chinese Characteristics
• 6 Thoughts on Stein Painting 14
• 9 How to Handle a Scroll? Evidence from Pelliot Chinois 3812
• 1 Possible Ways to Handle a Scroll
• 2 The Case of P.3812
• 3 Understanding the Placement of Paracontent
• 10 Manuscripts on the Move: A Codex's Journey from Lingzhou to Dunhuang
• 1 A Codex from Lingzhou
• 2 Typical Traits of the Paper Used for Dunhuang Codices
• 3 Other Codices from beyond Dunhuang
• 4 Manuscripts on the Move
• 11 The Life and Afterlife of a Funerary Divination Scroll
• 1 The Anatomy of the Scroll.
• 2 The Geomantic Sketches on the Scroll
• 3 Circulation of the Manuscript
• 4 The Life and Afterlife of S.3877
• Index
• Back Cover.

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ISBN

90-04-70688-7

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