{"product_id":"ceramics-from-the-excavations-in-the-historic-settlement-at-bir-kot-ghwanai-barikot-swat-pakistan-1984-1992-pierfrancesco-callieri-and-luca-m-olivieri","title":"Ceramics from the excavations In the historic settlement At Bīr-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai (barikot) Swat, Pakistan (1984-1992) - Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca M. Olivieri","description":"PRESENTATION\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Adriano V. Rossi\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the very important results obtained up until 1982 in Domenico Faccenna’s\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elargescale excavations in the Buddhist sanctuaries of Butkara I, Panr I and Saidu\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharif I, and the excavation of the Bronze Age and Iron Age graveyards and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esettlements, an important change of direction regarding methodology and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eobjective occurred when Pierfrancesco Callieri undertook the exploration of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eancient urban site of Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the important results obtained at Barikot, the IsMEO Italian excavations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estill are, in the whole of Gandhara, amongst the few extensive diggings of an\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEarly Historic site to be carried out after the 1960s. Indirectly, this is a proof of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe “vitality” of a methodology which gives priority to the three-dimensional\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einformation that only the excavation of an urban centre can provide, and which\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO (now ISMEO) has always considered as the specificity of its\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions throughout in the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter 36 years of campaigns (not counting those by Giorgio Stacul in the 1970s),\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, the identification of which with the ancient town of Bazira-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeira\/Vajīrasthāna is now certain, can be considered, together with Sirkap, the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emost crucial excavated settlement site in the North-West of the Indo-Pakistani\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubcontinent. We are pleased that this has happened not only for the work of two\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the Authors of this volume, two distinguished ISMEO scholars, but also\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethrough an international collaboration that is outlined by the introductory words\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof Cameron A. Petrie and further demonstrated by the many co-authors whose\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enames appear on the front page of this volume.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough the site has been regularly published, for the pottery material we had to\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewait more time than planned originally. In fact, the tragic earthquake that hit\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enorthern Pakistan in 2005 had a dramatic effect on the pottery collections\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econserved in the two godowns of the ISMEO Italian Mission at Saidu Sharif (see\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebelow the Introduction to the volume). This circumstance would have only partly\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaffected the possibility of homogeneously integrating the descriptive data. As\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ematter of fact, the complete dataset had been brought to the Mission headquarters\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eat the IsIAO before the event occurred.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnfortunately, though, following the dissolution of IsIAO by the Italian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGovernment authorities due to lack of funds (IsIAO was the Institute on which the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItalian Mission had depended from 1995 to 2012) the offices of the various\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions kept in Rome were vacated. The following numerous\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003echanges of venue affected the archaeological deposits before a temporary place\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas found in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTucci’, now in the Museo delle Civiltà (EUR, Rome). Meanwhile a good\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eproportion of the pottery records were lost. The event had a particular effect on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe records of the inscribed sherds, as narrated in the introductory note of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ededicated chapter.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe present volume adds to other published in the series ACT-Field School\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProject Reports and Memoirs from the well-deserved publisher Sang-e-Meel\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublications, Lahore. The ceramic material from the most recent excavations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2012-2014, Kushano-Sasanian phases) was published with Massimo Vidale in\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eviii\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume II (2014): The Last Phases of the Urban Site of Bir-kot-ghwandai\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Barikot). The Buddhist Sites of Gumbat and Amluk-dara (Barikot).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ceramic material of the excavations 2014-2017 (Indo-Greek and Saka-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParthian phases), was studied together with the contemporary phases from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexcavations on the Acropolis of 1998-1999 by Elisa Iori in her doctoral thesis\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of Bologna “Alma Mater”, 2018), and it is pretty much ready for final\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epublication in this same series (Special Volume 2.3: Ceramics from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcavations in the Historic Settlement at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot) Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakistan (1998-2017). The Early-Historic Phases, to be printed in 2021).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll these important scientific and editorial results are due to the incessant activity\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the past and current Directors of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe two Authors of this volume, who continue at the highest level the work of a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egreat master like Domenico Faccenna in a part of the world to which the names of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItaly and ISMEO are now inextricably linked.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat has been said so far brings to light how important has been the role of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003escholars operating under the aegis of the IsMEO (1957-1995), then of IsIAO\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1995-2012), and finally of the reestablished ISMEO (2012-) in the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecomprehensive analysis of the ceramics from the first phase of excavation at Bīrkoṭ-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eghwaṇḍai between 1984 and 1992.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoreover, in the most recent period, starting in 2012, the assignment to the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuseo delle Civiltà of all materials of archaeological interest of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO\/IsIAO Missions created the conditions for a global scientific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereconsideration to which this study (and other similar ones) will certainly provide\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esignificant contributions. This is the area of collaboration in view of which a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eformal agreement has been signed between ISMEO, that I have the honour of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epresiding over, and the Museo delle Civiltà, and also the reason why a specific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebudget line of the five-year MIUR Project “Studies and research on the cultures of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAsia and Africa: tradition and continuity, revitalization and dissemination” is\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edevoted to the reordering of the IsIAO archives.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA final word on the close collaboration between IsMEO\/IsIAO\/ISMEO, Italy and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe political and cultural authorities of Pakistan and the Province of Khyber\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakhtunkhwa. A paramount achievement was the acquisition, after a long\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enegotiation process, of one third (5 ha) of the archaeological site of Barikot at a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecost of 1 million Euro in December 2109. Without the constant support of all the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eauthorities in Pakistan nothing could have been done. I sincerely hope that\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISMEO, the authorities and the people of this important region will continue – on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe model of the work that is presented here – a collaboration designed to make\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eavailable to the international community the immense riches, material and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eintangible, that the Italian research has been able to harvest over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Ceramics from the excavations In the historic settlement At Bīr-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai (barikot) Swat, Pakistan (1984-1992)\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca M. 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