South Asian Archaeology 2007, Volume II Historic Periods [Paperback]

Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007. Volume II: Historic Periods. Contents: 1) Contextualising Bodhgaya: A Study of Settlements and Monastic Sites in the Bodhgaya Region (A.A. Amar); 2) Desert Temples: Archaeology in Present Time (L.A. Babb et al.); 3) Devotional Figures on Buddhist Images from Ancient Mathura (C. BASU); 4) New Element of Fantasy and Rhythm Introduced in Gupta Art (G. Bhattacharya); 5) Cave 2 at Aurangabad: Buddhist Art at the Threshold of the 7th Century (P. Brancaccio); 6) The Evolution of the Goddess with the Cornucopia (M.L. Carter); 7) The Buddhas Doorways and the rGya.dpag.pai lha.khang of Nako (M. Di Mattia); 8) Early Terracotta - Figures from Kanauj: Chessmen? (M.A.J. Eder); 9) Hoysa?a Temples (Karnataka, Southern India) Built in the Northern Style of Architecture (G. Foekema); 10) Sculptures of Suryas Attendants from Mathura (M. Frenger); 11) From the Achaemenids to the Sasanians. Dahan-e Gholaman, Qala-ye Sam, Qala-ye Tapa: Archaeology, Settlement and Territory in Sistan (Iran) (B. Genito); 12) Kantanagar Temple (North-East Bengal): a Carefully Planned Iconographic Universe? (S. Gill); 13) New Epigraphic Data from the Excavations of the Ghaznavid Palace of Masud III at Ghazni (Afghanistan) (R. Giunta); 14) Bharhut and its Wider Regional Context (J. Hawkes); 15) Conservation, Restoration or Reconstruction? The Case of a Wooden Temple in the Indian Himalayas (Maheshvar Temple at Sungra, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh). Preliminary Research 9 A.-C. Juramie); 16) Yaksas or Portraits? A Re-Evaluation of the so-Called Yaka Statues from the Maurya-Su?ga Period (V. Lef??vre); 17) Parthian Nisa. Some Considerations Based on New Research (C. Lippolis); 18) Unpublished Terracotta Figurines from the Bukhara Oasis (C.L. Muzio); 19) Peculiar and Unknown Iconographies of the Nayaka Period in Tamil Country (T. Lorenzetti); 20) Newari Influence in TiblsQ