Islamic Metalwork From Afghanistan (9th-13th Century)

Valentina Laviola

Islamic Metalwork From Afghanistan (9th-13th Century): The Documentation of the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission

Authors

Valentina Laviola

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3459-3399

Keywords:

Islamic metalwork, Afghanistan, Ghazni, Rawza Museum, Kabul National Museum

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Series Maior

Pages: 554

Language: Inglese

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-26258

Abstract: The volume presents the Islamic metalwork collections documented by the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan (1957-1978), largely still unpublished today and sadly lost for the majority. The approximately 439 artefacts and fragments, datable to the chronological range between the 9^th and 13^th century, attest to a rich and varied production that deserves to be part of the scholarly discussion on Islamic medieval metalwork. The study offers a catalogue organised in 14 functional classes as well as a morphological, decorative and epigraphic analysis of the artefacts. Moreover, the analysis of the finds emerged from the excavations in Ghazni and those allegedely coming from the same site confirms the role played by the city as an important production centre.

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Author Biography

Valentina Laviola, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Valentina Laviola graduated in 2011 from the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” and obtained her PhD from the Ca’ Foscari Università di Venezia in 2016. Currently, as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, she carries out the study of brickwork and stucco archaeological materials retrieved from Ghazni by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan. Since 2017 she is adjunct professor of Islamic art and archaeology at the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. Her researches are mainly devoted to archaeological and art-historical topics related to the Eastern Iranian lands. She is the author of many scientific papers and she has taken part as a speaker in numerous international conferences.