4to. xiv, 152 pp., double column per page, b/w illustrations, cloth, lightly marked, otherwise copy inside in mint condition, Wayne State University Press, published with the assistance of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Detroit, 1987.

Synopsis

Contents include: The Sacrilege Inscription: The Ethnic, Linguistic, Social and Religious Situation at Sardis at the End of the Persian Era; Ancient Sumer and Iran; British Museum ‘Axe’ No. 123268: A Bactrian Bronze; The Saka Haumavarga and the Auvpyioi; The Indo Parthian Beginnings of Gandhara Sculpture; A Gandharan Blessing; Die Numismatik als Quelle zur Kunst der Sasaniden, der Kusan und der iranischen Hunnen; A Sasanian Silver Plate with a Leopard Hunt; The Patronage of Zahir al-Din Babur and the Origins of Mughal Architecture; Muslim Miniatures; Miniatures from Ottoman Baghdad.