New volume of the Silkroad Foundation's journal,
The Silk Road (vol. 11 for 2013) has been published. It is freely available
on-line at:
<http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol11/>,
a
contents page that provides a link to a pdf file of the entire volume and also
to pdf files of individual articles.
The print version of the journal
will be mailed to the academic libraries which receive it free of charge over
the next few weeks. We cannot accept individual subscriptions. If libraries
which do not yet receive it wish to do so, we will be happy to send the current
volume and a good many of the previously published ones which are still in
stock.
The Silk Road is soliciting good articles for the upcoming 2014
and subsequent volumes. Instructions for contributors are linked on the
website.
Please send any communications regarding the journal to Daniel
Waugh <dwaugh@u.washington.edu>.
Vol.
11 (2013) (234 pp. plus [for the first time] an insert of 16 color plates),
contains:
In memoriam.
Justin M. Jacobs. Langdon Warner at
Dunhuang: What Really Happened?
Alessandra
Glumlia-Mair. Metallurgy and Technology of the Hunnic Gold Hoard from
Nagyszéksós
John Mock. New Discoveries of Rock Art in Afghanistan’s
Wakhan Corridor and Pamir:
A Preliminary
Study
Sergei S. Miniaev. On the Interpretation of Certain Images on Deer
Stones
Niccolò Manassero. Tamgas, a Code of the Steppes. Identity Marks
and Writing among the Ancient Iranians
Sergey A. Yatsenko. Some
Observations on Depictions of Early Turkic Costume
Yang Juping 杨巨平. The
Relations between China and India and the Opening of the Southern Silk Road
during the Han Dynasty
Rosalind E. Bradford. An Egyptian Contribution to
a Late 5TH-Century Chinese Coffin,
Zhang Wen 張文, Xu Chunzhong 徐純中, Wu Zhuo 吳焯, and Qiu Yiping 邱夷平. A Study on
the Auspicious Animal Motifs on Han Textiles in Ancient China
Zvezdana
Dode. On the Issue of Silk Weaving in Genoese Kaffa and Textiles from the
Belorechenskaia Kurgans
Ali Bahrani Pour. The Trade in Horses between
Khorasan and India in the 13th – 17th Centuries
Elena Paskaleva (with a
preface by Daniel C. Waugh). Samarqand Refashioned: A Traveller’s Impressions,
August 2013
Julia Elikhina. (Featured Museum:) The Renovated Central Asia
Exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum
Daniel C. Waugh. (Featured Museum,
II:) Distance Learning and the Museum: The Arts of the Islamic World at The
Metropolitan Museum in New York
Review Essays:
Alicia Ventresca
Miller. Rethinking Central Asia: A Review of The Age of the Steppe Warriors
[Baumer]
Carol G. Thomas. In Search of the Golden King
[Holt]
Daniel C. Waugh. A Road Less Taken? [Rtveladze]
Bertille
Lyonnet. Marshak on Sogdian Ceramics
Daniel C. Waugh. Expanding
Geographic Horizons along the Maritime Silk Road [Park]
Jennifer Webster.
New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia [Muslim Saints and
Mausoleums]
Daniel C. Waugh. A Treasury of Old Images for the Study of
Inner Asia [Prishchepova]
Book Notices
Color
Plates
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Daniel Waugh
Professor Emeritus, University of
Washington
Editor
