Looted, recovered, returned : antiquities from Afghanistan : a detailed scientific and conservation record of a group of ivory and bone furniture overlays excavated at Begram, stolen from the National Museum of Afghanistan, privately acquired on behalf of Kabul, analysed and conserved at the British Museum and returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan in 2012 /

The 'Begram ivories' are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 and belong to a period when Afghanistan, Paki...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ambers, J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2014]
Series:Archaeopress archaeology.
Subjects:
Ivory carving > Afghanistan.
Bone carving > Afghanistan.
Ivoirerie > Afghānistān.
Sculpture sur os > Afghānistān.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities
Bone carving
Ivory carving
Afghanistan > Antiquities.
Kapisa (Extinct city)
Afghānistān > Antiquités.
Begrām (Afghānistān)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan > Kapisa (Extinct city)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Dr Omara Khan Masoudi; Preface by the Sponsor; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from Archaeological Discovery to Museum Display; St J. Simpson; The Scientific Analyses:; Analysis of Original and Conservation Materials, Pigments and Metal Pins Associated with a Group of Ivory and Bone Plaques from Begram, Afghanistan; Emma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Giovanni Verri, ; Caroline Cartwright and Duncan Hook; The Conservation Treatments:; Conservation of the Ivory and Bone Panels from Begram, Afghanistan; Clare Ward and Barbara Wills

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