SILK ROAD

Ancient gemstones from India and Sri Lanka

• Bejeweled cups (category), GANDHARA (category), Gemstones (category), GEMSTONES, metals, TECHNIQUES (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Mir Zakah, Afghanistan

• AFGHANISTAN db (category), JEWELRY db (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Kushan – Parthian costume

• COSTUMES (category), Jewelry on paintings and sculptures (category), PARTHIAN (category), Uzbekistan (category)

Gandhara – Tillya Tepe / Afghanistan similarities

• AFGHANISTAN db (category), GANDHARA (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Parthian jewelry – an overview

• Arabia (category), earrings db (category), EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region (category), HATRA (category), Kazakhstan (category), PARTHIAN (category), SYRIA (category)

Vallerano necropolis, 2nd-3rd century

• brooch db (category), DATA BASE (category), FEMALE BURIAL (category), PALMYRA (category), ring db (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Jewelry from a burial at Majiayuan [Tomb M18], Gansu, China. The Warring States Period (480 – 221 BCE)

• China (category), FEMALE BURIAL (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Al-Lat, camels and Hatra [notes]

• DEITIES (category), female deities (category), HATRA (category), Kazakhstan (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Sarmatian necklaces

• BLACK SEA REGION (category), COMPILATIONS / galleries (category), PARTHIAN (category), SARMATIAN (category), SILK ROAD (category), torque / torc db (category), UKRAINE (category)

Parthian ivory rhytons from Old Nisa, 3rd – 2nd C BCE

• EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region (category), PARTHIAN (category), SILK ROAD (category), VESSELS (category)

Ancient treasures from the Al Thani Collection

• COMPILATIONS / galleries (category), FEMALE portraits db (category), Jewelry on paintings and sculptures (category), SILK ROAD (category), VESSELS (category)

Blue Miroku

• DEITIES (category), male deities (category), SILK ROAD (category)

The chin-guards of China and Inner Mongolia

• China (category), Inner Mongolia (category)

Chen Dacong “Historical Evidence: The History of Buddhism and Han Dynasty Begins in Bashu”

• ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS (category), SILK ROAD (category)

Hair ornament, Tang Dynasty, China [d/b]

• China (category), DATA BASE (category), hair ornament db (category), JEWELRY db (category)

Faces of Central Asia

• DATA BASE (category), Uzbekistan (category)

Relief with a Bactrian camel, 2nd-4th C [d/b]

• CAMELS (category), DATA BASE (category), Kazakhstan (category), SILK ROAD (category), Uzbekistan (category)

Gold ornaments, Bactrian camels, Western Han Dynasty period (206 BCE–9 CE) [d/b]

• CAMELS (category), DATA BASE (category), SILK ROAD (category)

The Dalverzin Tepe, Kushan treasure 1st-4th century

• Belt / buckle / plaques (category), GANDHARA (category), HATRA (category), necklace db (category), PARTHIAN (category), torque / torc db (category), Uzbekistan (category)