{"title":"“The Tibetans in the Western Himalayas and Karakoram, Seventh-Eleventh Centuries: Rock Art and Inscriptions”","authors":"P. Denwood","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.302546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.302546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"12 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120931768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracing the Sources of the Book of Zambasta: the Case of the Yakṣa Painter Simile and the Kāśyapaparivarta","authors":"Giuliana Martini","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAA.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAA.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127705605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Textiles and Clothing Excavated from the Tombs of Buzak in Khotan","authors":"Feng Zhao, Le Wang","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAA.3.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAA.3.16","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2006, the authors visited Khotan Museum to study the clothes on three bodies that had been discovered in the 1970s (M70), 1983 (M83), and 1984 (M84), from the tombs of Buzak, a cemetery situated south-west of Khotan city.1 All three tombs had been damaged by flooding on several occasions. Archaeologists from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Museum, Urumqi, and the local museum in Khotan excavated the tombs and brought the bodies back to Khotan museum. On the basis of the style of the coffins, the burials can be assigned to the pre-Islamic period from the tenth to the early eleventh centuries. Buzak is probably the only site in Khotan where textiles and clothes from the period immediately preceding the advent of Islam have been found and is therefore of great importance for Khotan studies. With the exception of M84:7, which is now in the Xinjiang Museum in Urumqi, all the exhibits are in the Khotan Museum, Khotan. Except for M84:7 and 8a, the textiles and clothing still cover the bodies. Since none has been given exhibit numbers, we have numbered them according to the year they were discovered.2 In the course of our investigations, we analyzed all the textiles and clothing and recorded the following details:","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128726021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central Asian Manuscripts ‘Are Not Worth Much To Us’: The Thousand-Buddha Caves in Early Twentieth-Century China","authors":"J. Jacobs","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAA.3.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAA.3.28","url":null,"abstract":"As word filtered up through the local yamens in xinjiang 新 疆 in the summer of 1901 that a “casual foreign traveler” (youlizhe 游歷者) had unearthed “wooden tablets, fragments of leather plaitings ... [and] quite a bit of tattered paper with tracings of writing visible,” the Chinese-educated officials serving on the Qing 清 frontier apparently assumed that such writings would be in their own language. How else to account for the seemingly naive bureaucratic request forwarded to Pan Zhen 潘震 (Stein’s “Pan Darin”), district magistrate of Khotan, that he “transcribe” an additional file copy of several 2,000-year-old Sanskrit documents that archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein had produced for his inspection? The awkward position in which Pan found himself as he carefully crafted his May 17, 1901 reply is evident. “Insofar as I cannot make out the style of calligraphy used in this script,” he admitted sheepishly, “any attempt to trace a copy by hand would ultimately prove futile.”1 What Pan did not wish to admit openly was that the “style of calligraphy” in question was in fact an entirely different language, one that very few in the employ of the Qing government could accurately identify, much less “copy by hand.” Pan Zhen’s inability to make sense of the Sanskrit documents unearthed by Stein was indicative of a much larger cultural bias among the Sino-Manchu-Mongolian ruling class in northwestern China. Ye Changchi 業昌熾, the provincial education commissioner for Gansu 甘肅 province from 1902 to 1906, maintained copious diary entries regarding the specific contents of Chinese-language documents and steles that had begun to trickle out of Dunhuang’s 敦煌 Thousand-Buddha Caves (qianfodong 千佛洞) during his tenure in Gansu. In his entry for September 28, 1904, however, Ye made only a terse remark regarding the receipt of a gift of “31 leaves of a manuscript sutra ... all in Sanskrit,” whose strange script he derisively characterized as a “flurry of raindrops in a windy storm, with letters puny as flies.” In December 1909, however, three years after retiring to his home in Zhejiang 浙江 province, Ye deeply mourned reports that the French Sinologist Paul Pelliot had carted off a great many Chinese “Tang-Song manuscripts and paintings” from the Dunhuang cave library.2 The linguistic preferences of Western and Chinese scholars were also evident within the northwestern manuscript forgery business. Peddlers of manuscripts (both real and forged) living in China proper shrewdly perceived that Chinese-educated officials, antiquarians, and scholars would only open their purses for documents penned in Chinese. Chen Jikan 陳季侃, a government official first stationed in Gansu in 1917, recalled that by the time he arrived in Dunhuang it had “already become quite difficult to purchase the best of the Tang manuscripts. And if they were inscribed with a year or were written during the time of the Six Dynasties [222–589, the dates of the earliest manuscripts], the price was extraordinarily hi","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114581769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nana: The “Original” Goddess on the Lion","authors":"M. Ghose","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123615921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Seal of a Eunuch in the Sasanian Court","authors":"Judith A. Lerner","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121595940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-spouted ewers of Khorasan and Central Asia","authors":"G. Fehérvári","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301935","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122123038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Ursula Sims-Williams, W. Sundermann
{"title":"An Illustrated Parchment Folio from a Middle Persian Manichaean Codex in the Collection of the British Library, Or. 12452D/3 (Kao. 0111)","authors":"Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Ursula Sims-Williams, W. Sundermann","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123177975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on Kus.ān.a Chronology and the Bactrian Era","authors":"M. Carter","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.2.301924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124710831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mantellini, Serena Di Cugno, Rita Dimartino, Amreddin E. Berdimuradov
{"title":"Change and Continuity in the Samarkand Oasis: Evidence for the Islamic Conquest from the Citadel of Kafir Kala","authors":"S. Mantellini, Serena Di Cugno, Rita Dimartino, Amreddin E. Berdimuradov","doi":"10.1484/J.JIAAA.4.2017012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JIAAA.4.2017012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology","volume":"41 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120857862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}