South Asian Archaeology 2007: Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007: Volume II: Historic Periods

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. Lefèvre); 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 Some Considerations Based on New Research (C. Lippolis); 18) Unpublished Terracotta Figurines from the Bukhara Oasis (C.L. Muzio); 19) Peculiar and Unknown Iconographies of the Nayaka Period in Tamil Country (T. Lorenzetti); 20)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 Tibetan Paintings between the 11th and 14th Centuries (K. Meahl-Blondal); 21) Hitherto Unidentified Metal Sculptures of the Pañcaraka Goddess Mahasahasrapramardani from Nepal and Tibet (G.J.R. Mevissen); 22) Through Ports, Passes and Junctions: Reconsideration of the Excavational Patterns of Minor Buddhist Caves in Western India with Special Reference to Junnar (N. Nakatani et al); 23) 11th Century Wall Paintings of Zhwa lu (H.F. and H.A. Neumann); 24) Aspects of Buddhist Artefacts and Features from the Excavation of Garab-Dzong, District Mustang, Nepal. The case of the Room 2 in House 5 (C. Pohl-Thiblet); 25) Tantra in Asylum the Veiovis of Monterazzanos Thunderbolt: Harbinger of Indian Tantric Vajra? (M.A. Polichetti); 26) The Seated Lady and the Gupta King (E.M. Raven): 27) Subsistence and the Samgha: the Rock Cut Monastery at Karap and its Hinterland (G. Rees); 28) Tracing a Neglected Heritage of Play: Report from a Field Documentation of Engraved Game Boards at the Ancient Site of Vijayanagara, Karnataka, South India (c. AD 1350-1565) (E. Rogersdotter); 29) Marble from the Palace of Masud III in Ghazni (M. Rugiadi); 30) Dwellings in the Snow: Living Traditions in the Braldu Valley (Baltistan) (I.E. Scerrato); 31) Ongoing Typological Studies of Bodhisattva Images from Greater Gandhara: Four Jatamukuta Conventions for Images of the Maitreya-type (C.W. Schmidt); 32) Road Networks and Trade Routes in the Golconda Kingdom (AD 1518-1687) (R. Simpkins); 33) Investigations at the Early Historic City of Sisupalgarh, India 2005-07 (M.L. Smith & R.K. Mohanty); 34) Festivity and Sacred Aura Thoughts on the Origins and Meaning of the Garland Moulding in the Ornamentation of Gandharan stupas (M. Stoye); 35) A Link between the Darel Valley and Gilgit, the Khanbery Valley. Field Research in Northern Pakistan Tracing Faxians Route from Pamir to Darel 2005 & 2006 (H. Tsuchiya); 36) The Citadel of Tissamaharama and the Torrents of Spring (H.-J. Weisshaar & S. Dissanayake); 37) The Purchase of Jetavana in an Amarava