On November 13-14, the State Hermirage holds the conference The Sogdians At Home and Abroad in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Dr Boris I. Marshak (1933-2006). Here is the official programme of the conference. November 13 Morning session Address from the head of the State Hermitage, Dr M.B.Piotrovsky Videorecord of the lecture by B.I.Marshak read at the University of Seattle Frantz Grenet, Claude Rapin. The Formative Periods of Sogdian Culture Eleonora Pappalardo. Ivory Rhytons from Old Nisa. Methodological Remarks Carlo Lippolis. The “Dark Ages” of Old Nisa: from the Arshacids Occupation to the Middle Ages Judith Lerner. Yidu: a Sino-Sogdian Tomb? Т. К. Mkrtychev. The Sogdian Lokopalas Дневное заседание Afternoon Session V. A. Livshits. Ihe Chorasmian Literary Monuments Nicholas Sims-Williams The Sogdian Rustam Yutaka Yoshida. Heroes of the Shahnama in a TWtta Sogdian text Antonio Panaino, Paolo Ognib. The Italian Ethnolinguistic and A ideological Mission in the Yagnob Valley Stefano Pello. Central Asian Iconographies and the Myth of Mani's Arzhang Gianroberto Scarcia. About the "Eastern" Committant/Sulptor of Taq-e-Bostan November 14 Morning Session Matteo Compareti. Coronation and Nauruz: A Note iirt be Reconstruction of the Missing King at Afrasiab V. G. Shkoda. В. I. Marshak and Painting of Panjakent А. М. Blyakher, V. A. Fominykh. The Restoration of the Wall-painting with the Lamentation Scene Р. В. Lurje. The Traces of Manichaeism in Central Asia, and in Panjakent in particular L. Yu. Kulakova. The Wall-paintings of the Audience Hall from the Site of Ancient Panjakent. Object XXI-1 Sh. P. Pidayev. New Materials on the Funeral Ceremony of Early Medieval Termez Afternoon Session Yu. A. Pyatnitsky. The Four Paradise Rivers. The Silver Byzantine Plate of the Early 6th Century in the State Hermitage Museum V. N. Zalesskaya. Some Remarks to the Nestorian Discus from the Village of Grigorovs-koye, the State Hermitage Museum Ernst Grube. The Impact of Sogdian Painting on Islamic Painting Eleanor Sims. The Islamic Afterlife of the Wall-Painting of Sogdiana A. A. Ivanov. Mysterious Master Inajaton D. К. Mirzaakhmedov. About the Social-Economic Factors of the Development of Glazed Ceramics of Mavarannahr in the Late 10th - Early 13th Centuries G. L. Semenov †, A. I. Torgoev. A Complex of the Southern Gates of Paikend (Researches of 2005-2008) |