Links and Resources

An online collection of articles dedicated to Boris Marshak, by his students and colleagues, with many relevant articles on the Sogdians, including articles on silk, costume and metalwork.

Guitty Azarpay, Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. University of California Press, 1981. Archive.org

Cheng, Bonnie. “THE SPACE BETWEEN: Locating “culture” in Artistic Exchange.”Ars Orientalis 38 (2010): 81–120. Jstor

Albert Dien, “The Glories of Sogdiana,” The Silk Road Foundation

Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume 5 : Religions and Trade : Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange Between East and West. Leiden, NLD: BRILL, 2013. (NYU | BGC )

Franz Grenet, Pénélope Riboud and Yang Junkai, “Zoroastrian Scenes On A Newly Discovered Sogdian Tomb In Xi’an Northern China,” Studia Iranica 33, 2004, pp. 273-284. Archive.org

Ann C. Gunter and Paul Jett, Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1992). Archive.org

Prudence Harper, Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. MMA

Härtel, Herbert, and Marianne Yaldiz, Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. MMA

Lukonin, Vladimir, and Ivanov, Anatoly. Temporis : Central Asian Art. New York, NY, USA: Parkstone International, 2012. (NYU | BGC)

Marshak, Boris. “The Archaeology of Sogdiana,” in The Silk Road Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2003).

Marshak, Boris. Sogdiiskoe serebro. Ocherki po vostochnoi torevtike (Moscow: Izd-vo “Nauka”: Gl. red. vostochn. lit-ry, 1971)

[Sogdian Silver, available in Russian and English translation with illustrations here]

Rose, Jenny. “The Sogdians: Prime Movers Between Boundaries,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) Volume 30, Number 3: 410-419.

Rose, Jenny. I. B. Tauris Introductions to Religion : Zoroastrianism : An Introduction. London, GBR: I.B. Tauris, 2011. (NYU | BGC)

de la Vaissière, Étienne, “Sogdians in China: A Short History and Some New Discoveries,” in The Silk Road Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2003).

Mariko Namba Walter, “Sogdians and Buddhism,” Sino-Platonic Papers 174 (November 2006). Archive.org

Watt, James C. Y., and Anne E. Wardwell, with an essay by Morris Rossabi, When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. MMA