ISSN 2152-7237 (print) ISSN 2153-2060 (online) The Silk Road Volume 11 2013 Contents In Memoriam ........................................................................................................................................................... [iii] Langdon Warner at Dunhuang: What Really Happened? by Justin M. Jacobs ............................................................................................................................ 1 Metallurgy and Technology of the Hunnic Gold Hoard from Nagyszéksós, by Alessandra Giumlia-Mair ......................................................................................................... 12 New Discoveries of Rock Art in Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and Pamir: A Preliminary Study, by John Mock .................................................................................................................................. 36 On the Interpretation of Certain Images on Deer Stones, by Sergei S. Miniaev ....................................................................................................................... 54 Tamgas, a Code of the Steppes. Identity Marks and Writing among the Ancient Iranians, by Niccolò Manassero .................................................................................................................... 60 Some Observations on Depictions of Early Turkic Costume, by Sergey A. Yatsenko .................................................................................................................... 70 The Relations between China and India and the Opening of the Southern Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, by Yang Juping 杨巨平 .................................................................................................................. 82 An Egyptian Contribution to a Late 5TH-Century Chinese Coffin, by Rosalind E. Bradford ................................................................................................................. 93 A Study on the Auspicious Animal Motifs on Han Textiles in Ancient China, by Zhang Wen 張文, Xu Chunzhong 徐純中, Wu Zhuo 吳焯, and Qiu Yiping 邱夷平 ..................... 100 On the Issue of Silk Weaving in Genoese Kaffa and Textiles from the Belorechenskaia Kurgans, by Zvezdana Dode ........................................................................................................................ 113 The Trade in Horses between Khorasan and India in the 13th – 17th Centuries, by Ali Bahrani Pour ...................................................................................................................... 123 Samarqand Refashioned: A Traveller’s Impressions, August 2013, by Elena Paskaleva (with a preface by Daniel C. Waugh) ............................................................. 139 Featured Museum: The Renovated Central Asia Exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum, by Julia Elikhina ............................................................................................................................ 154 (continued) “The Bridge between Eastern and Western Cultures” Featured Museum, II: Distance Learning and the Museum: The Arts of the Islamic World at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, by Daniel C. Waugh ...................................................................................................................... 172 Review Essays Rethinking Central Asia: A Review of The Age of the Steppe Warriors [Baumer], by Alicia Ventresca Miller ............................................................................................................ 181 In Search of the Golden King [Holt], by Carol G. Thomas ...................................................................................................................... 185 A Road Less Taken? [Rtveladze], by Daniel C. Waugh ...................................................................................................................... 188 Marshak on Sogdian Ceramics, by Bertille Lyonnet ........................................................................................................................ 192 Expanding Geographic Horizons along the Maritime Silk Road [Park], by Daniel C. Waugh ...................................................................................................................... 200 New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia [Muslim Saints and Mausoleums], by Jennifer Webster ....................................................................................................................... 215 A Treasury of Old Images for the Study of Inner Asia [Prishchepova], by Daniel C. Waugh ...................................................................................................................... 217 Book Notices .................................................................... 221 Ancient Iran from the Air. Edited by David Stronach and Ali Mousavi. Photographs by Georg Gerster. 欧亚历史文化文库 Ouya lishi wenhua wenku [Library of Eur- Getzel M. Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from asian History and Culture], Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India. by Xinru Liu K. Sh. Tabaldyev. Drevnie pamiatniki Tian’-Shania [Ancient Lushun bowuguan guan cang wenwu xuancui. Gu yin dudiao Monuments of the Tian-Shan]. sujuan 旅顺博物馆馆藏文物选粹 • 古印度雕塑卷 [Ancient Indian sculpture: Precious cultural relics collected by the A. Iu. Alekseev. Zoloto skifskikh tsarei v sobranii Ermitazha Lushun Museum], [Gold of the Scythian rulers in the Hermitage collection]. by Xu Yuanyuan 徐媛媛 Kanat Uskenbai. Vostochnyi Dasht-i Kypchak v XIII–nachale The following notices all written by Daniel C. Waugh: XV veka: Problemy etnopoliticheskoi istorii Ulusa Dzhuchi [The Eastern Kypchak Steppe in the 13th–beginning of the 15th David Jongeward, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon, centuries: Problems of the ethnopolitical history of the Ulus and Stefan Baums. Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries. of Jöchi]. Chinese Silks. Edited by Dieter Kuhn. Erbulat A. Smagulov. Drevnii Sauran [Ancient Sauran]. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2013), Religiia v istorii narodov Iuzhnoi Sibiri i Tsentral’noi Azii. Chast’ pages numbered 149-389: Textiles as Money on the Silk Road. II: Epokha srednevekov’ia. Khrestomatiia [Religion in the his- A. A. Ierusalimskaia. Moshchevaia Balka: neobychnyi arkheo- tory of the peoples of Southern Siberia and Inner Asia. Part logicheskii pamiatnik na Severokavkazskom shelkovom puti / II: The Middle Ages. An anthology]. Moshtcevaya Balka: an unusual archaeological site at the North Sebouth David Aslanian. From the Indian Ocean to the Medi- Caucasus silk road. terranean. The Global Networks of Armenian Merchants from Materialy po istorii kochevykh narodov v Kitae III–V vv. Vyp. New Julfa. 氐羌 4. Di i Tsiany [Materials on the history of the nomadic Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology. Vol. 5 (2010). peoples in China, 3rd–5th centuries. Vol. 4. The Di 氐 and Qiang 羌]. Perevod s kitaiskogo, predislovie i kommentarii Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Zoroastrianism and Mary Boyce V. S. Taskina. with Other Studies. N. S., Vol. 22 (2008). Siuan’-tszan [Xuanzang]. Zapiski o Zapadnykh stranakh [ep- 西域文史. Literature and History of the Western Regions. Vol. okhi] Velikoi Tan (Da Tan si iui tszi). Vvedenie, perevod s 7 (2013). kitaiskogo i kommentarii N. V. Aleksandrovoi. Captions to Color Plates ................................................ 234 Sarah Searight. Lapis Lazuli: In Pursuit of a Celestial Stone. Plates I – XVI ........................................... following page 234 Cover images: (left) A female costume from Belorechenskaia Kurgan 20, the fabric antedating 1457, the burial second half of the 15th century. Reconstruction by Zvezdana V. Dode, drawing by Irina P. Oleinik. Courtesy of Zvezdana V. Dode. (right) Mural of a weeping lady. Karashar: Shikshin, building K-9e, 9th–10th centuries. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Inv. No. ШШ-801. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum, all rights reserved. In MeMorIaM At year’s end, we tend to reflect on both our blessings and our losses of months just past. Work on ev- ery new volume of The Silk Road rewards me with the blessing of new discovery and interaction with the authors, most of whom I have never met. Yet this year at the forefront of my thoughts is loss, the loss of two wonderful scholars of unbounded promise who died young in 2013. Cherie Woodworth and Irene Good defended their dissertations at about the same time a little over a decade ago. Cherie concentrated on pre-modern Russia and had a serious interest in the ecology of steppe pastoralism. Irene Good was an archaeologist and specialist on early textiles, who also was deeply involved in proj- ects concerning pastoralism and ecology. Both were questioning received tradition in the literature in their fields, and were active professionally, attending conferences, publishing articles and reviews. Cherie’s work probably is little known to most readers of this journal — her CV described an ambi- tious but now only partially realized book project: “An environmental history of the steppe pastoral- ists, polities, and products and their relation to the rise of the Muscovite state in the early modern era; comparisons with China and other states bordering on the steppe.” Irene’s work is better known, since some of it applied sophisticated analytical techniques in an attempt to answer the seminal ques- tion about the location of the earliest production of silk. She published a penetrating review of how we must adopt new methodologies and