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Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art : Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017, Paperback / softback Book

Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art : Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017 Paperback / softback

Edited by Wannaporn (Lecturer in Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Sociology and Rienjang, Peter (Director / Professor of Ancient Art, Classical Art Research Centre / University of O Stewart

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Since the beginning of Gandharan studies in the nineteenth century, chronology has been one of the most significant challenges to the understanding of Gandharan art.

Many other ancient societies, including those of Greece and Rome, have left a wealth of textual sources which have put their fundamental chronological frameworks beyond doubt.

In the absence of such sources on a similar scale, even the historical eras cited on inscribed Gandharan works of art have been hard to place.

Few sculptures have such inscriptions and the majority lack any record of find-spot or even general provenance.

Those known to have been found at particular sites were sometimes moved and reused in antiquity.

Consequently, the provisional dates assigned to extant Gandharan sculptures have sometimes differed by centuries, while the narrative of artistic development remains doubtful and inconsistent.

Building upon the most recent, cross-disciplinary research, debate and excavation, this volume reinforces a new consensus about the chronology of Gandhara, bringing the history of Gandharan art into sharper focus than ever.

By considering this tradition in its wider context, alongside contemporary Indian art and subsequent developments in Central Asia, the authors also open up fresh questions and problems which a new phase of research will need to address.

Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art is the first publication of the Gandhara Connections project at the University of Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre, which has been supported by the Bagri Foundation and the Neil Kreitman Foundation.

It presents the proceedings of the first of three international workshops on fundamental questions in the study of Gandharan art, held at Oxford in March 2017.

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