Sakra Sites and Their Enigmatic Coins
By: Ziad, Waleed
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Publisher: Mumbai Marg Publications 2019Edition: Vol.70(4), June.Description: 62-69p.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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MargSummary: From the 4th to 12th centuries AD, over 300 varieties of copper coins were manufactured primarily for votive use within a cluster of sacred sites centred on the Kashmir Smast cave temple in the Sakra peak. The religious iconography on these coins is remarkably experimental, deploying an eclectic range of sacred and political imagery. They include Indo-Greek portraits, Iranian and Indian sculptural motifs, and Islamic devotional formulae. These were the products of local die-engravers who worked untethered to either the monetary or artistic traditions of the greater polities of Gandhara. The diversity of visual formulations threatens to displace not only notions of civilizational frontiers, but our conception of geographical and temporal numismatic and artistic circulation zones.
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From the 4th to 12th centuries AD, over 300 varieties of copper coins were manufactured primarily for votive use within a cluster of sacred sites centred on the Kashmir Smast cave temple in the Sakra peak. The religious iconography on these coins is remarkably experimental, deploying an eclectic range of sacred and political imagery. They include Indo-Greek portraits, Iranian and Indian sculptural motifs, and Islamic devotional formulae. These were the products of local die-engravers who worked untethered to either the monetary or artistic traditions of the greater polities of Gandhara. The diversity of visual formulations threatens to displace not only notions of civilizational frontiers, but our conception of geographical and temporal numismatic and artistic circulation zones.
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