Project’s Publications

Filigenzi, A., “A Buddhist Version of the Śrīvatsa/Kausthuba: Artistic and Ideological Ties Between Afghanistan and Xinjiang in the Second Half of the 1st Millennium CE”. In G. Forgione, S. Mancini, C. Moscatelli (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “Re-materialising the ephemeral: The clay and stucco artistry of Ancient Asia”, held at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 16–17 September 2025. Rome: ISMEO

Filigenzi, A., “Shared Visual Grammars of Late Antique Buddhism: Some Evidence from Afghanistan and Neighbouring Regions”. In A. Filigenzi (ed., with others) Proceedings of the International Conference Pratibimba – Discourses on Indian Art and Archaeology in Memory of Maurizio Taddei (1936–2000), held at Accademia Vivarium novum – Villa Falconieri, Frascati, and “L’Orientale University of Naples”, 26–28 February 2026. Rome: ISMEO

Filigenzi, A., “The corollaries of beauty: Some reflections on the monstrous and grotesque in the Buddhist sculpture of Afghanistan”. East and West

Forgione, G., “Colour and Power: Political and Ritual Symbolism in Ancient Central Asia”. In G. Forgione, S. Mancini, C. Moscatelli (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “Re-materialising the ephemeral: The clay and stucco artistry of Ancient Asia”, held at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 16–17 September 2025. Rome: ISMEO

Forgione, G., “Colouring the body: pigments, symbolism, and beauty practices in ancient Afghan Buddhist art”. In M. López-Prat, E. Cantisani, S.S. Bean (eds.) From Earth to Enlightenment: Materiality, Technology and Cultural Transmission in Buddhist Monumental Terracruda Sculpture. Collana Marco Polo. Studies in Global Europe-Asia Connections

Forgione, G., “Cultural Meanings and Perception of the Materials Used in the Buddhist Clay-based Sculpture”. In M. Frenger, M. Zin (eds) South Asian Archaeology and Art 2024: Concise Papers from the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art held in Leipzig, 16th – 20th September 2024. New Delhi: Dev Publishers, pp. 83-85 and fig. 1 p. 227.

Forgione, G., “Ongoing Studies about Tapa Sardar: Graphic Anastylosis and Interpretative Challenges”. In A. Filigenzi et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference Pratibimba – Discourses on Indian Art and Archaeology in Memory of Maurizio Taddei (1936–2000), held at Accademia Vivarium novum – Villa Falconieri, Frascati, and “L’Orientale University of Naples”, 26–28 February 2026. Rome: ISMEO

Lo Muzio, C., “The Afterlife of a Classical Motif in a Khotanese Buddhist Temple”. In A. Filigenzi (ed., with others) Proceedings of the International Conference Pratibimba – Discourses on Indian Art and Archaeology in Memory of Maurizio Taddei (1936–2000), held at Accademia Vivarium novum – Villa Falconieri, Frascati, and “L’Orientale University of Naples”, 26–28 February 2026. Rome: ISMEO

Lo Muzio, C., “Towards a Reassessment of the Clay Sculptures from Kuevkurgan (Southern Uzbekistan)”.  In G. Forgione, S. Mancini, C. Moscatelli (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “Re-materialising the ephemeral: The clay and stucco artistry of Ancient Asia”, held at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 16–17 September 2025. Rome: ISMEO

Mancini, S., “Materiality and Technique in Sassanian Architecture: Stucco, Mortars, and Plasters from Gawr Tepe (KRI, Iraq). In G. Forgione, S. Mancini, C. Moscatelli (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “Re-materialising the ephemeral: The clay and stucco artistry of Ancient Asia”, held at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 16–17 September 2025. Rome: ISMEO

Moscatelli, C., “The Meditating Monkey from Tapa Sardar, Ghazni, Afghanistan: Remarks on a Transregional Buddhist Theme”. In G. Forgione, S. Mancini, C. Moscatelli (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “Re-materialising the ephemeral: The clay and stucco artistry of Ancient Asia”, held at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 16–17 September 2025. Rome: ISMEO