From Pella to Gandhara : hybridisation and identity in the art and architecture of the Hellenistic East /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kouremenos, Anna, Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Rossi, Roberto
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2011.
Series:BAR international series ; 2221.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Anna Kouremenos
  • Foreword / Sir John Boardman
  • Introduction / Roberto Rossi
  • Alcibiades, "a classical archetype for Alexander" / Michael Vickers
  • Hybridisation of palatial architecture: Hellenistic royal palaces and governors' seats / Maria Kopsacheili
  • 'Hellenising' the 'Cypriot goddess': 'reading' the Amathousian terracotta figurines / Giorgos Papantoniou
  • The ruins on Mount Karasis in Cilicia / Timm Radt
  • A hybridized Aphrodite: the anadyomene motif at Tel Kedesh / Lisa Ayla Çakmak
  • 'Hybrid' art, hellenism and the study of acculturation in the Hellenistic east: the case of Umm el-ʻAmed in Phoenicia / Jessica Nitschke
  • Cultural interaction and emergence of hybrids in the material culture of Hellenistic Mesopotamia: an interpretation of terractota figurines, ceramic ware and seal impressions / Sidsel Maria Westh-Hansen
  • Temple architecture in the Iranian world in the Hellenistic period / Michael Shenkar
  • Cultural convergence in Bactria: the votives from the Temple of the Oxos at Takht-i Sangin / Rachel Wood
  • From Gandharan trays to Gandharan Buddhist art: the persistence of Hellenistic motifs from the second century BC and beyond / Jessie Pons
  • The places in between: model and metaphor in the archaeology of Hellenistic Arachosia / Rachel Mairs
  • Conclusion / Sujatha Chandrasekaran.