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Bangkok: SDI, 2001. First English translation, by N. M. Fatemi and A. Azodi, of the two volume Les Fouilles de Hadda: Stupas et sites: Mémoirs De La Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan and Les Fouilles de Hadda: Figures et Figurines. The Hadda complex, located just south of modern Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was a key site on the ancient trade route from India through Central Asia to China. Archaeological exploration of Hadda has yielded some astonishing artistic discoveries, including some of the earliest representational images of the Buddha, as well as the earliest surviving Buddhist texts. Barthoux's excavations at the site, in 1926-28, uncovered many thousands of images, sensitively rendered in stucco in the Gandharan 'Greco-Buddhist' style and originally created to adorn the walls of over 500 commemorative stupas. Barthoux's work was hampered by resistance from local Mullahs, and despite his valiant efforts only a fraction of the…
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- Title The Excavations of Hadda
- Author Jules J. Barthoux
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Second Edition
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Orchid Press, Bangkok, Thailand
- Date July 6, 2006
- ISBN 9781878529411 / 1878529412
- Weight 4.1 lbs (1.86 kg)
- Dimensions 11.73 x 8.75 x 1.31 in (29.79 x 22.23 x 3.33 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 958.101
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