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Books by Elizabeth Errington
Look at the Coins! Essays in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday, 2023
24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, mus... more 24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, museology, poetry and art. Papers are arranged geographically, then chronologically/thematically including studies on coins, charms and silver currencies in or from China; finds from ancient Central Asia and Afghanistan: coins of South Soghd, and far more.
Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833-1838
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson’s finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the ‘archaeological’ artefacts and a proportion of the coins.
This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.
The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).
The British Museum, Research Publication 219, 2021
This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghan... more This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghanistan. It uses his records and drawings in British Library archives to reconstruct the archaeological record and catalogue the coins and artefacts in the Masson collection of the British Museum.
Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations ... more Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations in Afghanistan 1832-1838 and his collections now in the British Museum.
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in southeast Afghanistan. During this period, he surveyed over a hundred Buddhist sites around Kabul, Jalalabad and Wardak, making numerous drawings of the sites, together with maps, compass readings, sections of the stupas and sketches of some of the finds. Small illustrations of a selection of these key sites were published in Ariana Antiqua in 1841. However, this represents only a tiny proportion of his official and private correspondence held in the India Office Collection of the British Library which is studied in detail in this publication. It is supplemented online by The Charles Masson Archive: British Library and British Museum Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication number 216). Together they provide the means for a comprehensive reconstitution of the archaeological record of the sites. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson's finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the 'archaeological' artefacts and a proportion of the coins. This volume studies the British Museum's collection of the Buddhist relic deposits, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context for the first time. Masson's collection of coins and finds from Begram are the subject of a separate study. Elizabeth Errington first began working on the archaeological records of Charles Masson during research for her doctoral thesis on the 19th-century discovery of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara. She was a curator of South and Central Asian coins in the British Museum (1993–2011) and from 1993 onwards has served as the coordinator and principal researcher for the British Museum's Masson Project.
(co-authored with V.S. Curtis) London 2007.
(contributor/editor with J. Cribb) Cambridge 1992.
(co-edited with R. and B. Allchin, N. Kreitman) New Delhi 1997.
Papers by Elizabeth Errington
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1989
cal introduction, followed by descriptions of the Gospel manuscripts exhibited. Appendix A is ent... more cal introduction, followed by descriptions of the Gospel manuscripts exhibited. Appendix A is entitled ' Armenian Gospel Books in the British Library in Chronological Sequence': it lists 28 items, ranging from an anonymous tenthcentury codex on vellum, without illustrations, right up to a manuscript copied in Constantinople in 1695, once the property of King William III. Dr Nersessian considers that the most important codex in the collection is the A wag Vank l Gospel book dated 1200-1202, copied in the vicinity of modern Erzinjan, Turkey. The coloured reproductions of some of the principal miniatures are superb, and should be seen to be admired. The work measures up to the highest standards of modern bibliographic art and technique. For future reference I have noted a few minor misprints and small queries.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992
Papers used by The British Museum are recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed fo... more Papers used by The British Museum are recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed forests and other controlled sources. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.
The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art (eds W.Rienjang & P. Stewart), 2022
19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhā... more 19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhāran site of Jamālgarhī in the Peshawar basin, from its discovery by Alexander Cunningham in early January 1848 to its excavation by the Archaeological Survey of India in the 1920s.
Choice Reviews Online, Sep 1, 1998
ChannelDo you really know who controls your financial destiny? Who prints the money? Is it worth ... more ChannelDo you really know who controls your financial destiny? Who prints the money? Is it worth the. Such a change gets you thinking about money, one of the many reasons for reading Money: A History. In this dense but rewarding work, curators from the British A History of Money and Banking in the United States-Ludwig von. An untold number of books have chronicled-and even pictured-the history of money. These range from scholarly economic treatises to lavishly illustrated works Money: A History: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Eagleton, Jonathan A History of Money revolves around this event, as does the imagination and memory of the unnamed protagonist of the novel, who returns over and over to it. Money: A History: Catherine Eagleton, Jonathan Williams-Amazon.ca Nov 27, 2012. From China's "flying money" to Siberian "soft gold," here are eight things you may not know about the history of money. Catalog Record: Stable money; a history of the movement by. Jun 6, 2015. Money has long been notorious for its way of complicating things. We can never have too much-but most often there's just not enough. In the Working Your Degree: History-Aug. 11, 2000-CNN Money In this volume, Murray Rothbard has given us a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War II, the first. readme.cc: Eagleton, Catherine-Money: A History (A book tip by Mar 4, 2015. David Graeber examines the centrality of debt to the origin of money. A History of Money: A Novel: Alan Pauls, Ellie Robins .-Amazon.com Aug 11, 2000. NEW YORK (CNNfn)-Brock Magoon was about to make a big mistake. The third-year history major at Longwood College had planned to turn Money: A History History Today The History of Money-Library of Congress Aug 6, 2011. Money in its social, political, and economic context from the dawn of history to the end of the 20th century. History of money-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A classroom guide to the Money: A History exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity. What is money?a history lesson from the Acoin Project-YouTube A guide to sources of information about the history of money.
L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici comm... more L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici communement admise, des sites traverses par trois pelerins bouddhistes (Fa-shien, Sung-yun, et Hsuang-tsang) du 5eme au 7eme siecle apr. J.-C., et particulierement en ce qui concerne la vallee de Peshawar dans la region du Gandhāra.
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 2006
Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest p... more Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest personal significance was his comment-based on his own experience-that it was impossible even to sneeze in British India, without having to write a report in triplicate. His well-founded conviction that records of the early British explorations and archaeological excavations of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara therefore must exist, not only provided a topic for my doctoral thesis and introduced me to a subject that still holds my interest some 25 years later, but has also largely determined the path of my subsequent career. So as an expression of my gratitude, I hope he will accept-in honour of his eightieth birthday-this small offering of yet another trawl through nineteenth-century archives. This time it concerns the papers relating to Charles Masson (1800-53) and his archaeological excavations and collections in the Kabul-Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1833-38. These are an extreme example of reports in triplicate: not only did Masson keep his own copies of all communications received or sent, 1 but the correspondence is also replicated numerous times as part of the official procedure of British East India Company, 2 with copies surviving in the British Library's India Office Collections, the Public Records Office at Kew, and in archives scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent. The present trail began with another phenomenon I remember David Bivar commenting on, namely the survival of numerous disembodied stucco heads at Hadda. This fact and the reason for it were also noted by Masson during his excavations at the site in 1834: 3 On the mound on which the [Hadda] village is built, under the walls to the south, idols in great numbers are to be found. They are small, of one and the same kind, about six or eight inches [15-20 cm] in height, and consist of a strong cast head fixed on a body of earth, whence the heads only can be brought away. They are seated and clothed in folds of drapery, and the hair is woven into rows of curls. The bodies are sometimes painted with red lead, and rarely covered with leaf gold: they appear to have been interred in apartments, of which fragments are also found. I know not whether coins were deposited with the idols, but in the course of my search for them two or three Indo-Scythic [i.e. Kushan] coins were detected.
Topoï, 1995
Topoi, 5/2, 1995, pp. 411-24.
Look at the Coins! Essays in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday, 2023
24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, mus... more 24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, museology, poetry and art. Papers are arranged geographically, then chronologically/thematically including studies on coins, charms and silver currencies in or from China; finds from ancient Central Asia and Afghanistan: coins of South Soghd, and far more.
Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833-1838
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson’s finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the ‘archaeological’ artefacts and a proportion of the coins.
This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.
The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).
The British Museum, Research Publication 219, 2021
This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghan... more This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghanistan. It uses his records and drawings in British Library archives to reconstruct the archaeological record and catalogue the coins and artefacts in the Masson collection of the British Museum.
Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations ... more Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations in Afghanistan 1832-1838 and his collections now in the British Museum.
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in southeast Afghanistan. During this period, he surveyed over a hundred Buddhist sites around Kabul, Jalalabad and Wardak, making numerous drawings of the sites, together with maps, compass readings, sections of the stupas and sketches of some of the finds. Small illustrations of a selection of these key sites were published in Ariana Antiqua in 1841. However, this represents only a tiny proportion of his official and private correspondence held in the India Office Collection of the British Library which is studied in detail in this publication. It is supplemented online by The Charles Masson Archive: British Library and British Museum Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication number 216). Together they provide the means for a comprehensive reconstitution of the archaeological record of the sites. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson's finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the 'archaeological' artefacts and a proportion of the coins. This volume studies the British Museum's collection of the Buddhist relic deposits, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context for the first time. Masson's collection of coins and finds from Begram are the subject of a separate study. Elizabeth Errington first began working on the archaeological records of Charles Masson during research for her doctoral thesis on the 19th-century discovery of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara. She was a curator of South and Central Asian coins in the British Museum (1993–2011) and from 1993 onwards has served as the coordinator and principal researcher for the British Museum's Masson Project.
(co-authored with V.S. Curtis) London 2007.
(contributor/editor with J. Cribb) Cambridge 1992.
(co-edited with R. and B. Allchin, N. Kreitman) New Delhi 1997.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1989
cal introduction, followed by descriptions of the Gospel manuscripts exhibited. Appendix A is ent... more cal introduction, followed by descriptions of the Gospel manuscripts exhibited. Appendix A is entitled ' Armenian Gospel Books in the British Library in Chronological Sequence': it lists 28 items, ranging from an anonymous tenthcentury codex on vellum, without illustrations, right up to a manuscript copied in Constantinople in 1695, once the property of King William III. Dr Nersessian considers that the most important codex in the collection is the A wag Vank l Gospel book dated 1200-1202, copied in the vicinity of modern Erzinjan, Turkey. The coloured reproductions of some of the principal miniatures are superb, and should be seen to be admired. The work measures up to the highest standards of modern bibliographic art and technique. For future reference I have noted a few minor misprints and small queries.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992
Papers used by The British Museum are recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed fo... more Papers used by The British Museum are recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed forests and other controlled sources. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.
The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art (eds W.Rienjang & P. Stewart), 2022
19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhā... more 19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhāran site of Jamālgarhī in the Peshawar basin, from its discovery by Alexander Cunningham in early January 1848 to its excavation by the Archaeological Survey of India in the 1920s.
Choice Reviews Online, Sep 1, 1998
ChannelDo you really know who controls your financial destiny? Who prints the money? Is it worth ... more ChannelDo you really know who controls your financial destiny? Who prints the money? Is it worth the. Such a change gets you thinking about money, one of the many reasons for reading Money: A History. In this dense but rewarding work, curators from the British A History of Money and Banking in the United States-Ludwig von. An untold number of books have chronicled-and even pictured-the history of money. These range from scholarly economic treatises to lavishly illustrated works Money: A History: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Eagleton, Jonathan A History of Money revolves around this event, as does the imagination and memory of the unnamed protagonist of the novel, who returns over and over to it. Money: A History: Catherine Eagleton, Jonathan Williams-Amazon.ca Nov 27, 2012. From China's "flying money" to Siberian "soft gold," here are eight things you may not know about the history of money. Catalog Record: Stable money; a history of the movement by. Jun 6, 2015. Money has long been notorious for its way of complicating things. We can never have too much-but most often there's just not enough. In the Working Your Degree: History-Aug. 11, 2000-CNN Money In this volume, Murray Rothbard has given us a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War II, the first. readme.cc: Eagleton, Catherine-Money: A History (A book tip by Mar 4, 2015. David Graeber examines the centrality of debt to the origin of money. A History of Money: A Novel: Alan Pauls, Ellie Robins .-Amazon.com Aug 11, 2000. NEW YORK (CNNfn)-Brock Magoon was about to make a big mistake. The third-year history major at Longwood College had planned to turn Money: A History History Today The History of Money-Library of Congress Aug 6, 2011. Money in its social, political, and economic context from the dawn of history to the end of the 20th century. History of money-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A classroom guide to the Money: A History exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity. What is money?a history lesson from the Acoin Project-YouTube A guide to sources of information about the history of money.
L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici comm... more L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici communement admise, des sites traverses par trois pelerins bouddhistes (Fa-shien, Sung-yun, et Hsuang-tsang) du 5eme au 7eme siecle apr. J.-C., et particulierement en ce qui concerne la vallee de Peshawar dans la region du Gandhāra.
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 2006
Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest p... more Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest personal significance was his comment-based on his own experience-that it was impossible even to sneeze in British India, without having to write a report in triplicate. His well-founded conviction that records of the early British explorations and archaeological excavations of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara therefore must exist, not only provided a topic for my doctoral thesis and introduced me to a subject that still holds my interest some 25 years later, but has also largely determined the path of my subsequent career. So as an expression of my gratitude, I hope he will accept-in honour of his eightieth birthday-this small offering of yet another trawl through nineteenth-century archives. This time it concerns the papers relating to Charles Masson (1800-53) and his archaeological excavations and collections in the Kabul-Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1833-38. These are an extreme example of reports in triplicate: not only did Masson keep his own copies of all communications received or sent, 1 but the correspondence is also replicated numerous times as part of the official procedure of British East India Company, 2 with copies surviving in the British Library's India Office Collections, the Public Records Office at Kew, and in archives scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent. The present trail began with another phenomenon I remember David Bivar commenting on, namely the survival of numerous disembodied stucco heads at Hadda. This fact and the reason for it were also noted by Masson during his excavations at the site in 1834: 3 On the mound on which the [Hadda] village is built, under the walls to the south, idols in great numbers are to be found. They are small, of one and the same kind, about six or eight inches [15-20 cm] in height, and consist of a strong cast head fixed on a body of earth, whence the heads only can be brought away. They are seated and clothed in folds of drapery, and the hair is woven into rows of curls. The bodies are sometimes painted with red lead, and rarely covered with leaf gold: they appear to have been interred in apartments, of which fragments are also found. I know not whether coins were deposited with the idols, but in the course of my search for them two or three Indo-Scythic [i.e. Kushan] coins were detected.
Topoï, 1995
Topoi, 5/2, 1995, pp. 411-24.
Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of piv... more Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Buddhism. Among the treasures unearthed are hundreds of reliquaries--containers housing relics of the Buddha. This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and numismatics to clarify the significance and function of these reliquaries. The story begins with the Buddha's last days, his death and funerary arrangements, and the distribution of the cremated remains, which initiated a relic cult. Chapters describe Gandharan reliquary types and subgroups, the archaeological and historical significance of collections, and the paleographic and linguistic interpretation of the inscriptions on the reliquaries. The 400 reliquaries illustrated and surveyed are from museums and private collections in Pakistan, India, Japan, Europe, and North America. Stone is the primary material of construction, along with bronze, gold, and silver. Shapes range from spherical and cylindrical to miniature stupas, a configuration that provides valuable information about the history of this Buddhist monumental form.
Topoï, 2001
Topoi 11/1, 2001 [2003], pp. 357-409.
"Numismatic evidence for dating the 'Kaniṣka' reliquary," <em>Silk Road A... more "Numismatic evidence for dating the 'Kaniṣka' reliquary," <em>Silk Road Art and Archaeology</em> 8 (2002): 127-46.
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson's finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the 'archaeological' artefacts and a proportion of the coins. This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson's 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum's collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum's collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context. This volume accompanies the previous two o...
Elizabeth Errington, <em>The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Ot... more Elizabeth Errington, <em>The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan</em>, British Museum Research Publication 216 (London: British Museum, 2017).
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 2006
Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest p... more Of the many things I learned as a student of Professor David Bivar, perhaps the one of greatest personal significance was his comment-based on his own experience-that it was impossible even to sneeze in British India, without having to write a report in triplicate. His well-founded conviction that records of the early British explorations and archaeological excavations of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara therefore must exist, not only provided a topic for my doctoral thesis and introduced me to a subject that still holds my interest some 25 years later, but has also largely determined the path of my subsequent career. So as an expression of my gratitude, I hope he will accept-in honour of his eightieth birthday-this small offering of yet another trawl through nineteenth-century archives. This time it concerns the papers relating to Charles Masson (1800-53) and his archaeological excavations and collections in the Kabul-Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1833-38. These are an extreme example of reports in triplicate: not only did Masson keep his own copies of all communications received or sent, 1 but the correspondence is also replicated numerous times as part of the official procedure of British East India Company, 2 with copies surviving in the British Library's India Office Collections, the Public Records Office at Kew, and in archives scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent. The present trail began with another phenomenon I remember David Bivar commenting on, namely the survival of numerous disembodied stucco heads at Hadda. This fact and the reason for it were also noted by Masson during his excavations at the site in 1834: 3 On the mound on which the [Hadda] village is built, under the walls to the south, idols in great numbers are to be found. They are small, of one and the same kind, about six or eight inches [15-20 cm] in height, and consist of a strong cast head fixed on a body of earth, whence the heads only can be brought away. They are seated and clothed in folds of drapery, and the hair is woven into rows of curls. The bodies are sometimes painted with red lead, and rarely covered with leaf gold: they appear to have been interred in apartments, of which fragments are also found. I know not whether coins were deposited with the idols, but in the course of my search for them two or three Indo-Scythic [i.e. Kushan] coins were detected.
Topoï, 1995
Topoi, 5/2, 1995, pp. 411-24.
Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of piv... more Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Buddhism. Among the treasures unearthed are hundreds of reliquaries--containers housing relics of the Buddha. This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and numismatics to clarify the significance and function of these reliquaries. The story begins with the Buddha's last days, his death and funerary arrangements, and the distribution of the cremated remains, which initiated a relic cult. Chapters describe Gandharan reliquary types and subgroups, the archaeological and historical significance of collections, and the paleographic and linguistic interpretation of the inscriptions on the reliquaries. The 400 reliquaries illustrated and surveyed are from museums and private collections in Pakistan, India, Japan, Europe, and North America. Stone is the primary material of construction, along with bronze, gold, and silver. Shapes range from spherical and cylindrical to miniature stupas, a configuration that provides valuable information about the history of this Buddhist monumental form.
Topoï, 2001
Topoi 11/1, 2001 [2003], pp. 357-409.
Pakistan Archaeology, 1991
Pakistan Archaeology, 26.2, 1991, pp.48-70.
Pakistan Archaeology, 1991
Pakistan Archaeology, 26.2, 1991, pp.48-70.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987
... at the base of a modern retaining wall (PI. 16). The first positive reference to the site is ... more ... at the base of a modern retaining wall (PI. 16). The first positive reference to the site is given by General Court, a French officer in the service of the Maharaja RanjitSingh. While camped at Peshawar with a brigade of 10,000 ...
The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 24th-26th March, 2021, edited by Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart, pp. 1-42, 2022
19th century archival records of the Punjab Government of British India, Archaeological Survey of... more 19th century archival records of the Punjab Government of British India, Archaeological Survey of India and other sources are used to reconstruct the Buddhist site of Jamalgarhir and to trace the sculptures collected from it.
Chinese Civilization on the Silk Road (International Workshop, Peking University, 9-10 Nov 2019) ... more Chinese Civilization on the Silk Road (International Workshop, Peking University, 9-10 Nov 2019)
“丝绸之路上的中华文明” 国际学术工作坊日程 （北京大学，2019年1月9-10日)