Early medieval industries of Khurasan and evidence for the mining, working and export of talc cooking pots, and small items of jet and turquoise

Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Simpson, St John
Date published
2021
Abstract
Discussion of textual evidence for the exploitation of different resources in Khurasan, and how archaeological evidence from Merv shows the import of talc cooking pots, and small items of jet and turquoise from neighbouring highland Iran in the early medieval period, with the implications that they raise
Book title
Khorasan namag: Essays on the Archaeology, History and Architecture of Khorasan in Honour of Rajabali Labbaf-Khaniki
Editor
Labbaf-Khaniki, Meysam
Pagination
75-87
Place of publication
Tehran
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