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CHINESE LACQUERWARES FROM BEGRAM: DATE AND PROVENANCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2011

Liangren Zhang
Liangren Zhang
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Northwest University, Xi'an, China. E-mail [email protected]
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Abstract

In the 1930s, the French Archaeological Delegation discovered a few fragments of Chinese lacquerwares at the Hellenistic town of Begram in Afghanistan. These lacquerware fragments, along with other artifacts from this site, have puzzled generations of scholars. Through a comparison of these fragments with lacquerwares discovered in China proper and beyond, this article offers a new chronology of the period from 74 BC to AD 23. This temporal frame corresponds to a time when the social life of Begram is vague in historical records, but it appears that the local aristocracy, for a period of about a hundred years, must have had some political and economic interactions with the late Western Han and Xin dynasties.

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lacquerwareHan dynastyKushanSilk Road
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Research Article
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International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 1 - 24
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