Tepe Narenj à Caboul

Paiman, Zafar [u.a.]:
Tepe Narenj à Caboul : ou l’art bouddhique à Caboul au temps des incursions musulmanes = The Tepe Narenj Buddhist Monastery at Kabul : Buddhist Art During the First Muslim Raids Against the Town / par Zafar Paiman, directeur de fouilles, et Michael Alram pour les monnaies. - Tome I: Chronologie, bâtiments, céramiques et monnaies. - Paris : Collège de France (distr.: De Boccard), 2013. - 154 S. : Ill. - (Publications de l’Institut de Civilisation Indienne du Collège de France : série in-4° ; fasc. 82)
ISBN 978-2-86803-082-5
EUR 71,00
DDC: 726.784309581; 958.101

Beschreibung
This is the Final Report of the Afghan excavations at Tepe Narenj (2004-2012), started and entirely directed by the author of the book. Tepe Narenj is the name given to a rocky spur located in the Southern part of today Kabul. It was entirely covered with Islamic graves when the dig begun. The ancient remains hidden under these graves are now entirely cleared and preserved. Two nearby places could also be excavated, smaller than the main dig, but yielding impressive results. All the excavated buildings belong to the latest period of a huge mahasanghika monastery dating back to the 2nd or 3rd c. A.D., now entirely covered by multiple layers of graves belonging to one of the most important and revered Islamic cemeteries in Kabul, where it is now impossible to conduct archaelogical excavations. They were filled with colossal clay statues. The stratigraphic analysis and the coins demonstrate that most of these buildings and statues were made after 870 A.D., i.e. at after the first Arab raids against Kabul. This volume contains the description and the fullest possible illustration of the finds (buildings, sculptures, ceramics, coins). Volume II will contain the historical and art comments. [Gérard Fussman]

Autoren
ZAFAR PAIMAN, Paris, takes care of the project "Afghanculturemuseum.org". Facebook profile.
MICHAEL ALRAM, Direktor des Münzkabinetts des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien, Dozent für Numismatik an der Universität Wien. Curriculum vitae.

Quellen: Éditions De Boccard; Mitteilung von Gérard Fussman in der Mailing-Liste "H-Buddhism", vom 29. Juni 2013; Mitteilung von Gérard Fussman in der Mailing-Liste "Indology", vom 29. Juni 2013; Sudoc
Bildquelle: Zafar Paiman | Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology
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