History of Oriental Toreutics of the 3rd - 13th Centuries and Problems of Cultural Continuity

Kitob haqida

This book was written by the outstanding Russian archaeologist and art historian B.I. Marshak (1933-2006) and has no analogues in domestic and foreign historiography. It examines in detail the development of the art of toreutics in the Near and Middle East, as well as in adjacent territories over a period of more than a thousand years - from late antiquity to the developed Middle Ages - based on the use of a completely new method developed by the author for the attribution of products made of precious metals, with the help of which places of manufacture, as well as relative and absolute chronology of more than 150 vessels made of gold and silver, decorated with various ornaments and images. The publication is intended for both professional historians, archaeologists and art historians, as well as for all those who are interested in oriental antiquities, including connoisseurs and collectors of works of ancient art.