Seals, Sealings and Tokens from Gandhara

Amān-ar-Raḥmān [u.a.]:
Seals, sealings and tokens from Gandhāra / Aman ur Rahman & Harry Falk. - Wiesbaden : Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2011. - 238 S. : Ill. - (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie ; 21) (Studies in the Aman ur Rahman Collection ; 1)
ISBN 978-3-89500-819-1
EUR 89,00
DDC: 737.60934

Beschreibung
Ancient seals say much about people, their names, preferred styles and self-esteem. Over many decades Aman ur Rahman has built a large collection of seals from North-Western Pakistan, which were produced during Hellenistic times up to the Guptas. He classifies them and explains their pictorial content, while Harry Falk, a professor of Indology at Berlin, reads all epigraphs in Kharosthi and Brahmi and provides an introduction on the scribal aspects. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. 8
Introduction. 9
Commentary on the Scribal Aspects. 13
Guide to Image Cataloguing. 31
Catalogue. 32
   1. Male Portraits. 32
   2. Female Portraits. 46
   3. Male Figures. 52
   4. Female Figures. 59
   5. Multiple Portraits and Figures. 62
   6. Hellenistic Deities. 68
   7. Indo-Iranian Deities. 95
   8. Buddhist Contexts. 117
   9. Humans and Animals. 120
   10. Quadrupeds. 126
   11. Birds. 143
   12. Other Creatures. 148
   13. Fantastic Creatures. 149
   14. Plants. 154
   15. Tamga Designs and Symbols. 156
   16. Inscriptions. 168
Appendix I - Taxila Museum Collection of Seals. 180
Appendix II - Peshawar Museum Collection of Seals. 197
Appendix III - Numismatic and Sculptural Parallels. 215
References. 228
Index of Names and Vocabulary. 233

Autoren

AMAN UR RAHMAN, CEO of Enerplastics, Dubai. He is an avid Numismatist and collector, having authored several articles on Numismatics and has published books on the ancient Coinage of Pakistan.

HARRY FALK, Professor of Indology (indische Philologie), Freie Universität, Berlin. Profile page.

Quellen: Ludwig Reichert Verlag; Amazon (Deutschland); Deutsche Nationalbibliothek