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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Treasures from the Oxus
    sub title: the art and civilization of Central Asia
  name:
    name part: Vidale, Massimo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ricciardi, Valerio
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm
  abstract: In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands. It was for centuries central to Achaemenid and later Persian power. But, as the author shows, it has a prehistory which goes very much further back: and a succession of skilled yet still elusive Bronze Age cultures flourished here well before the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE. This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating history, art and archaeology of the region, including its primal trade in silk and foodstuffs; the mineral wealth of the Oxus basin; its exotic myths and beliefs; and the converging tribes and peoples which led to a new stability, economic growth and urbanism. The volume contains 150 full-colour photographs of notable artefacts, including silver decorated vessels, inlaid stone pots, agate beads and 25 'Bactrian Princesses': remarkable statuettes made in chlorite and limestone. Most of these rare objects have never been seen, let alone published, before.
  note: Massimo Vidale ; with photographs by Valerio Ricciardi.
  note: Map on lining papers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ac-----
  subject:
    geographic: Asia, Central
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Amu Darya
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
    geographic: Amu Darya
  subject:
    geographic: Asia, Central
  classification: DK925 .V53 2017
  classification: 939/.6
  identifier: 9781784537722
  identifier: 1784537721
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 161118
    record change date: 20171116112715.0
    record identifier: in00003945903
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng