The bibliography includes all publications related to the project "Buddhist and Islamic Archaeological Data from Ghazni, Afghanistan", as well as publications related to the archaeological research in Ghazni and its materials.

  • IsMEO Activities 1957
    East and West, 7/4: 392.
  • IsMEO Activities 1958
    East and West, 9/3: 273-274.
  • IsMEO Activities 1959
    East and West, 10/3-4: 234, 309.
  • IsMEO Activities 1960
    East and West, 11/4: 306.
  • IsMEO Activities 1961
    East and West, 12/4: 290.
  • IsMEO Activities 1962
    East and West, 13/1: 86.
  • IsMEO Activities 1966
    East and West, 16/3-4: 384.
  • IsMEO Activities 1967
    East and West, 17/3-4: 344-345.
  • IsMEO Activities 1969
    East and West, 19/3-4: 545-546.
  • IsMEO Activities 1970
    East and West, 20/4: 509-510.
  • IsMEO Activities 1971
    East and West, 21/3-4: 421-422.
  • IsMEO Activities 1972
    East and West, 22/3-4: 379-384.
  • IsMEO Activities 1973
    East and West, 23/3-4: 420.
  • IsMEO Activities 1975
    East and West, 25/3-4: 544-546.
  • IsMEO Activities 1976
    East and West, 26/3-4: 599-600.
  • Adamesteanu 1960
    Adamesteanu Dinu, "Notes sur le site archéologique de Ghazni". Afghanistan, 15/1: 21-30.
  • Allegranzi - Fusaro - Laviola - Massullo 2015
    Allegranzi V., Fusaro A., Laviola V., Massullo M., "Islamic Ghazni: New Data and Research Perspectives. An introduction". Eurasian Studies, 13/1-2: 1-4.
  • Allegranzi 2011
    Allegranzi Viola, L'iscrizione in persiano del palazzo sultaniale di Ghazni (Afghanistan). M.A. thesis, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (unpublished).
  • Allegranzi 2013
    Allegranzi Viola, "Islamic Ghazni. Ongoing Researches. Inscriptions on Ghaznavid Marbles" (poster). International Conference on the Safeguarding of Afghan Cultural Heritage, UNESCO, Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale", Naples, 10 December 2013.
  • Allegranzi 2014
    Allegranzi Viola, "Royal Architecture Portrayed in Bayhaqī’s Tārīḫ-i Masʻūdī and Archaeological Evidence from Ghazni (Afghanistan, 10th-12th century)". Annali dell'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 74: 95-120.
  • Allegranzi 2015
    Allegranzi Viola, "The Use of Persian in Monumental Epigraphy from Ghazni (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries)". Eurasian Studies, 13/1-2: 23-41.
  • Allegranzi 2017
    Allegranzi Viola, Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni, Afghanistan. Nouvelles sources pour l’étude de l’histoire culturelle et de la tradition épigraphique ghaznavides (Ve-VIe/XIe-XIIe siècles), PhD thesis, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale", 2 vols (unpublished). URL: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01720484/document.
  • Allegranzi 2018
    Allegranzi Viola, "Les inscriptions persanes du tombeau dʼAbū Jaʿfar Moḥammad à Ghazni (VIe/XIIe s.) : La poésie comme lieu de mémoire et d’histoire". Studia Iranica, 47: 89-118.
  • Allegranzi 2019
    Allegranzi Viola, Aux sources de la poésie ghaznavide. Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni (Afghanistan, XIe-XIIe siècles), 2 vols. Paris.
  • Allegranzi 2020
    Allegranzi Viola, "Quoting the Shāhnāme in Monumental Epigraphy. Literary Culture and Legitimisation Strategies Across the Persianate World (11th-13th c.)". In L. Capezzone (ed.), Before Archaeology. The Meaning of the Past in the Islamic Pre-Modern Thought (and After) (Opere collettanee dell’Atlante del Vicino Oriente antico 1). Roma: 127-142.
  • Allegranzi 2021
    Allegranzi Viola, "The Medieval Urbanism of Ghazni (Afghanistan, 10th–12th Centuries). A Cross-Reading of Textual and Material Evidence". Afghanistan, 4/1: 1-18. URL: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/afg.2021.0061.
  • Allegranzi - Laviola 2020
    Allegranzi Viola, Laviola Valentina (eds), Texts and Contexts. Ongoing Researches on the Eastern Iranian World (Ninth-Fifteenth C.) (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 120). Roma. ISBN: 978-88-97622-53-6.
  • Allegranzi - Laviola - Passaro 2021
    Allegranzi Viola, Laviola Valentina, Passaro Carlotta, "Un palazzo sultaniale del Medioevo islamico: casi-studio ricostruttivi del materiale disperso di Ghazni (Afghanistan)". In Nume, Gruppo di ricerca sul Medioevo latino, VII Ciclo di Studi Medievali. Atti del convegno, 7-10 giugno, Firenze. Lesmo: 438-443.
  • Annucci 2018a
    Annucci Arturo, Coins from Ghazni (Afghanistan), M.A. thesis, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (unpublished).
  • Annucci 2018b
    Annucci Arturo, "Islamic Coins from Ghazni (Afghanistan)" (poster). 24th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EAASA), Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Naples, 2-6 July 2018. URL: https://www.academia.edu/43327917/Islamic_coins_from_Ghazni_Afghanistan_.
  • Annucci 2018c
    Annucci Arturo, "Coins from the Ghaznavid palace in Ghazni: the finds and their archaeological context" (poster). Round table: Texts and contexts. Ongoing researches on the Eastern Iranian world (9th-15th c.), Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Naples, 14 September 2018.
  • Annucci 2020
    Annucci Arturo, "Islamic Coins from the Ghaznavid Palace in Ghazni: A General Overview". In V. Allegranzi, V. Laviola (eds), Texts and Contexts. Ongoing Researches on the Eastern Iranian World (Ninth-Fifteenth C.) (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 120). Roma: 213-224. ISBN: 978-88-97622-53-6.
  • Artusi 2009b
    Artusi Simona, "Architectural Decoration from the Palace of Mas'ūd III in Ghazni: Brickwork and Brickwork with Stucco. A Preliminary Analysis". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 117-129.
  • Artusi 2009a
    Artusi Simona, La decorazione architettonica in cotto e in cotto e stucco proveniente dal palazzo di Masʿūd III di Ghazni, Afghanistan. PhD thesis, Università degli studi di Udine, 2 vols (unpublished).
  • Artusi 2012a
    Artusi Simona, "Brick panel with inserted stucco tiles". Unesco Virtual Museum for Intercultural Dialogue. Common Heritage: A Museological and Educational Approach to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/214/brick-panel-with-inserted-stucco-tiles.
  • Artusi 2012b
    Artusi Simona, "Frieze with vegetal decoration". Unesco Virtual Museum for Intercultural Dialogue. Common Heritage: A Museological and Educational Approach to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/213/frieze-with-vegetal-decoration.
  • Artusi 2012c
    Artusi Simona, "Leaning columns in baked clay". Unesco Virtual Museum for Intercultural Dialogue. Common Heritage: A Museological and Educational Approach to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/212/leaning-columns-in-baked-clay.
  • Artusi 2013
    Artusi Simona, "Islamic Ghazni. Ongoing Researches. Palace of Masʿud III: terracotta elements" (poster). International Conference on the Safeguarding of Afghan Cultural Heritage, UNESCO, Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale", Naples, 10 December 2013.
  • Bagnera 1995
    Bagnera Alessandra, "Ghaznavidi e Ghuridi". Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, vol. 6. Roma: 598-604.
  • Bombaci 1957
    Bombaci Alessio, "Ghazni". East and West, 8/3: 247-258.
  • Bombaci 1958
    Bombaci Alessio, "Ghaznavidi". Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, vol. 6. Roma: 5-16.
  • Bombaci 1959
    Bombaci Alessio, "Introduction to the Excavations at Ghazni. Summary Report on the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan". East and West, 10/1-2: 3-22.
  • Bombaci 1961
    Bombaci Alessio, "Les Turcs et l’art ghaznavide". First International Congress of Turkish Art. Ankara 19th-24th October 1959. Ankara: 65-70.
  • Bombaci 1964
    Bombaci Alessio, "La sposa del Cielo". In A Francesco Gabrieli. Studi orientalistici offerti nel sessantesimo compleanno dai suoi colleghi e discepoli (Studi orientali 5). Roma: 21-34.
  • Bombaci 1966
    Bombaci Alessio, The Kūfic Inscription in Persian Verses in the Court of the Royal Palace of Mas‘ūd III at Ghazni (Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro Studi e Scavi Archeologici in Asia. Reports and Memoirs, vol. 5). Roma.
  • Colombo 2009
    Colombo Fabio, "Soils, Marbles and Colours: Restoration and Conservation Across the History of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 173-183.
  • Di Flumeri Vatielli 2009
    Di Flumeri Vatielli Gabriella, "The Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'G. Tucci' and the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente: a Long and Intense Collaboration of 50 Years' Duration". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 185-202.
  • Faccenna - Filigenzi 2007
    Faccenna Domenico, Filigenzi Anna, Repertorio terminologico per la schedatura delle sculture dell’arte gandharica sulla base dei materiali provenienti dagli scavi della Missione Archeologica dell’IsIAO nello Swat, Pakistan / Repertory of terms for cataloguing Gandharan sculptures, based on materials from the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat, Pakistan. IsIAO Reports and Memoirs. Roma.
  • Ferrandi 2009
    Ferrandi Marco, "Out of History: Themes and Symbols in the Hindu Kush at the Fringes of the Main Cultural Traditions". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 23-39.
  • Filigenzi (in preparation)
    Filigenzi Anna, "Kings, families, children and monks: A taxonomic enquiry into the ritualised celebration of patronage in the Buddhist art of Afghanistan". Paper presented at The Image as Instrument and as Reflection of Ritual in Central Asia and the Himalaya: from Antiquity to the Present. Cinquième colloque international de la SEECHAC (Société Européenne pour l’Etude des Civilisations de l’Himalaya et de l’Asie Centrale), Napoli 5-7 Novembre 2018.
  • Filigenzi 2005a
    Filigenzi Anna, "Il Subcontinente indiano". In Enciclopedia Archeologica. Asia, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani. Roma: 473-475.
  • Filigenzi 2005b
    Filigenzi Anna, "A Bronze Votive Stūpa of the Shahi Period: Art, Faith and Ideology in Late-Antique Buddhism". In U. Franke-Vogt and H.-J. Weisshaar (eds), South Asian Archaeology 2003. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists (7-11 July 2003, Bonn). Aachen: 421-430.
  • Filigenzi 2005c
    Filigenzi Anna, "Maître du ciel, héros de la terre: la triade Bouddha-Vajrapāṇi-Skanda dans l’art du Gandhāra". In Z. Tarzi and D. Vaillancourt (eds), Art et archéologie des monastères gréco-bouddhiques du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde et de l’Asie Centrale. Actes du colloque international du Crpoga, Strasbourg, 17-18 mars 2000. Paris: 93-111.
  • Filigenzi 2005d
    Filigenzi Anna, "Stone and Stucco Sculptures from the Sacred Building of Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, Swat, Pakistan". In C. Jarrige and V. Lefèvre (eds), South Asian Archaeology 2001. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists held in Collège de France, Paris, 2-6 July 2001. Paris: 453-461.
  • Filigenzi 2006
    Filigenzi Anna, "Surya, the Solar Kingship and the Turki Shahi. New Acquisition on the Cultural History of Swat". East and West, 56/1-3: 195-203.
  • Filigenzi 2007
    Filigenzi Anna, "From Lumbini to Lhasa: local traditions and cosmopolitan vocation of the Buddhist art and architecture". In F. De Filippi (ed.), Restoration and protection of cultural heritage in historical cities of Asia between modernity and tradition (Politecnico di Torino). Roma : 33-44.
  • Filigenzi 2008a
    Filigenzi Anna, "Late Buddhist Art in Archaeological Context: Some Reflections on the Sanctuary of Tapa Sardar". In C. Bautze-Picron (ed.), Religion and Art: New Issues in Indian Iconography and Iconology. Vol. 1 of the Proceedings of the 18th conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, London 2005 (general editor M. Willis). London: 49-62.
  • Filigenzi 2008b
    Filigenzi Anna, "The dāna, the pātra and the cakravartin-ship: Archaeological and Art Historical Evidence for a Social History of Early Medieval Buddhism". In C. Bautze-Picron (ed.), Miscellanies about the Buddha Image. South Asian Archaeology 2007, Special Session 1 (BAR International Series 1888). Oxford: 11-24.
  • Filigenzi 2008c
    Filigenzi Anna, “Buddhist Art in Its Social Context”. In Ph. von Zabern (ed.), Gandhara, the Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Legends, Monasteries and Paradises (Catalogue of the exhibition). Bonn: 298-301.
  • Filigenzi 2009a
    Filigenzi Anna, "The Buddhist Site of Tapa Sardar". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 41-57. ISBN: 9788863232950.
  • Filigenzi 2009b
    Filigenzi Anna, "Ritual Forms, Cult Objects: Tapa Sardar at the Crossroads of Places and Phases of the Buddhist ecumene". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 59-75. ISBN: 9788863232950.
  • Filigenzi 2009c
    Filigenzi Anna, "Migration, Diffusion, Localisation: The common roots of late Buddhist art in Afghanistan/Pakistan and early Buddhist art in Himalayan countries". Tibetan Arts in Transition: A Journey through Theatre, Cinema and Painting. Seminars Proceedings, Rome and Naples 2008-2009 [Le arti tibetane in transizione: Un viaggio attraverso teatro, cinema e pittura. Atti dei seminari Roma e Napoli 2008-2009]. Roma: 79-87.
  • Filigenzi 2009d
    Filigenzi Anna, "La missione archeologica italiana in Afghanistan dell'IsIAO: cinquant'anni di ricerche, scoperte, incontri". Parthica, 11: 57-69, 149.
  • Filigenzi 2009e
    Filigenzi Anna, "Indisches Herz und universaler Geist". Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 205, Literatur und Kunst, B 3.
  • Filigenzi 2010a
    Filigenzi Anna, "Post-Gandharan/non-Gandharan: An Archeological Inquiry into a Still Nameless Period". In M. Alram and D. E. Klimburg-Salter (eds.), Coins, Art and Chronology II, The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Wien: 389-406.
  • Filigenzi 2010b
    Filigenzi Anna, "The Shahi Period: Archaeological and Art Historical Evidence from North West Pakistan". In M. Alram et al. (eds), Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Wien: 407- 427.
  • Filigenzi 2010c
    Filigenzi Anna, "Review Article: The Buddhist Monuments of Kabul". Indo-Iranian Journal, 53/4: 301-329.
  • Filigenzi 2011
    Filigenzi Anna, "Post-Gandharan Swat. Late Buddhist rock sculptures and Turki Śāhi’s religious centres". Journal of Asian Civilisations, Special issue [Italian Archaeology and Anthropology in Northern Pakistan (1955-2011)], 34/1: 186-202.
  • Filigenzi 2012
    Filigenzi Anna, "Forme visive del buddhismo tardo-antico. Una koiné artistica senza nome lungo i percorsi delle Vie della Seta". In B. Genito, L. Caterina (eds.), Archeologia delle "Vie della Seta": Percorsi, immagini e cultura materiale. 1° ciclo di conferenze, 14 marzo-16 maggio 2012: 27-64. URL: http://www.unior.it/ateneo/7951/1/conferenze.html.
  • Filigenzi 2013
    Filigenzi Anna, "Remarks on the Wall Paintings from Mes Aynak". In Recent Archaeological Works in Afghanistan. Preliminary studies on Mes Aynak excavations and other field works. Kabul: 41-52.
  • Filigenzi 2017a
    Filigenzi Anna, "Technology and Humanities: Some Reflections on the Future of Afghan Cultural Heritage". In G. Stein, M. Fisher, H. Latify, N. Popal, and N. Dupree (eds.), Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan, Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Kabul University, November 2014. Chicago: 75-84, figs. 57-69.
  • Filigenzi 2017b
    Filigenzi Anna, "Forme visive del Buddhismo tardo-antico: una koiné artistica senza nome lungo i percorsi delle Vie della Seta". In B. Genito, L. Caterina (eds.), Archeologia delle Vie della Seta: Percorsi, Immagini e Cultura materiale, vol. 1 (Il Novissimo Ramusio 5,1). Roma: 31-46.
  • Filigenzi 2017c
    Filigenzi Anna, "Walled Sacred Spaces: The Myth of Yima in the Religious Imagery of Pre-Islamic Afghanistan" (trans. Izumi Ueeda). In Akira Miyaji (ed.) Studies on Buddhist Art in Asia, vol. 3, Central Asia, East and West Turkestan (in Japanese). Tokyo: 199-226.
  • Filigenzi 2019
    Filigenzi Anna, "A Survey of the Buddhist site at Tapa Sardar, Afghanistan: 阿富汗塔帕•萨达尔佛教遗址管窥 [Afuhan tapa Sadaer Fojiao yizhi guankui]". In Chongfeng Li (ed.), Gandhara and China [Jiantuoluo yu Zhongguo]. Shangai: 91-112.
  • Filigenzi 2020a
    Filigenzi Anna, "The Myth of Yima in the Religious Imagery of Pre-Islamic Afghanistan: An Enquiry Into the Epistemic Space of the Unwritten". In V. Eltschinger, V. Tournier and M. Sernesi (eds.), Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Series Minor LXXXIX). Napoli: 171-204.
  • Filigenzi 2020b
    Filigenzi Anna, "A space of mobility: the interregional dynamics of Buddhist artistic production as reflected in archaeological evidence". East and West, N.S. 1: 205-224.
  • Filigenzi 2021
    Filigenzi Anna, "Mes Aynak: Afghan Buddhist Art in Context". In M.N. Walter and J.P. Ito-Adler (eds.) The Silk Road, Interwoven History, vol. 2: Buddhism. Cambridge: 209-243. ISBN: 9780991042838.
  • Filigenzi - Alram - Paiman 2020
    Filigenzi Anna, Alram Michael, Paiman Zafar, "Afghanistan’s pre-Islamic archaeology: vulnerability, resilience and perspectives". In L. R. Greaves and A. Hardy (eds.), Religions, Society, Trade and Kingship: Archaeology and Art in South Asia and along the Silk Road, 5500 BCE-5th Century CE. Research Presented at the Twenty-third Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art, Cardiff, 2016, Vol. 1: Archaeology, Seals and Inscriptions, Iconography and Artistic Expression. New Delhi: 223-233.
  • Filigenzi - Giunta 2015
    Filigenzi Anna, Giunta Roberta, "The Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan". In B. Cassar, S. Noshadi (eds), Keeping History Alive. Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict Afghanistan. Paris-Kabul (UNESCO): 80-91.
  • Filigenzi - Giunta 2009
    Filigenzi Anna, Giunta Roberta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma. ISBN: 9788863232950.
  • Fischer 1978
    Fischer Klaus, "6. From the Rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasion". In F.R. Allchin & N. Hammond (eds), The Archaeology of Afghanistan from earliest times to the Timurid period. London-New York-San Francisco: 301-355.
  • Flood 2009
    Flood Finbarr Barry, Objects of Translation. Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter. Princeton.
  • Flood 2017
    Flood Finbarr Barry, "A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus" . In E. Allinger et alii (eds.), Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia: Processes of Transfer, Translation and Transformation in Art, Archaeology, Religion and Polity (Proceedings of the Third International SEECHAC Colloquium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 25-27 November 2013, Vienna). Wien: 227-253.
  • Flury 1925
    Flury Samuel, "Le décor épigraphique des monuments de Ghazna". Syria, 6/1: 61-90.
  • Fontana 2005a
    Fontana Maria Vittoria, "La fortuna di un ‘ağā’ib?". In M. Bernardini, N.L. Tornesello (eds), Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme (Series Minor, 68), vol. 1. Napoli: 441-456.
  • Fontana 2005b
    Fontana Maria Vittoria, "A Note on the Relationship between Some Ghaznavid and Byzantine Graffita Wares". In P. Callieri, A. Filigenzi (eds), To Maurizio Taddei (East and West, 55). Roma: 117-127.
  • Fontana 2009
    Fontana Maria Vittoria, "L’archeologia islamica in Afghanistan: passato e nuovi progetti IsIAO". In A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (eds), The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. Roma: 77-88.
  • Forgione 2014
    Forgione Giulia, Mes Aynak. M.A. thesis, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (unpublished).
  • Forgione 2018
    Forgione Giulia, Sculture in argilla da Tepe Narenj (Kabul). Nuove testimonianze di arte buddhista in epoca Huna e Shahi. PhD thesis, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 3 vols (unpublished).
  • Forgione 2019
    Forgione Giulia, "Clays and colours: Tracking technologies and theories of vision in the ancient Buddhist art of Afghanistan". In L.M. Olivieri, S. Pannuzi (eds.), Restauro Archeologico 1, 2019. Firenze: 130-141. URL: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ra/issue/view/526/57.
  • Forgione 2021
    Forgione Giulia, “Clay-based sculptures: analysis of technical aspects and typologies”. Parthica. Incontri di culture nel mondo antico., 23: 145-176. URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli3.php?chiave=202103501&rivista=35&articolo=202103501008.
  • Fusaro 2009
    Fusaro Agnese, Classificazione della ceramica proveniente dall'ambiente XVIII del Palazzo di Mas'ūd III a Ghazni (Afghanistan, XI-XIII secolo). M.A. thesis, Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (unpublished).
  • Fusaro 2012a
    Fusaro Agnese, "Glazed Hexagonal Moulded Tile" . Unesco Virtual Museum for Intercultural Dialogue. Common Heritage: A Museological and Educational Approach to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/216/glazed-hexagonal-moulded-tile.
  • Fusaro 2012b
    Fusaro Agnese, "Graffito-splashed small dish". Unesco Virtual Museum for Intercultural Dialogue. Common Heritage: A Museological and Educational Approach to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. URL: http://www.unesco.org/culture/museum-for-dialogue/item/en/215/graffito-splashed-small-dish.
  • Fusaro 2013
    Fusaro Agnese, "Islamic Ghazni. Ongoing researches. The Pottery Finds" (poster). International Conference on the Safeguarding of Afghan Cultural Heritage, UNESCO, Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale", Naples, 10 December 2013.
  • Fusaro 2014
    Fusaro Agnese, Studio del corpus ceramico di età islamica dagli scavi italiani a Ghazni, Afghanistan (X-XIII secolo): contributo alla ricostruzione storica del palazzo sultanale e della ‘casa dei lustri’. PhD thesis, Sapienza Università di Roma, 3 vols (unpublished).
  • Fusaro 2015
    Fusaro Agnese, "From Ceramic to History. Pottery Contribution to the History of Ghazni". Eurasian Studies, 13/1-2: 5-22.
  • Fusaro 2016
    Fusaro Agnese, "Ceramics as a documentary and historical source : some insight into the history of Islamic Ghazni" (poster). Workshop: The Ghaznavids and Their Neighbours: New Researches on Eastern Iranian World (10th-12th c.), CNRS, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR), 26 Feburary 2014.
  • Fusaro 2020
    Fusaro Agnese, "Dealing with the Islamic Glazed Tiles from Ghazni Again: New Remarks on a Still Fascinating Topic". In V. Laviola, M. Massullo (eds), Maḥabbatnāma. Scritti offerti a Maria Vittoria Fontana dai suoi allievi per il suo settantesimo compleanno (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 125). Roma: 163-193.
  • Fusaro - Allegranzi 2023
    Fusaro Agnese, Allegranzi Viola, "A Treasure of Lustrewares from Ghazni (Afghanistan, Mid-12th–Early 13th Century)". Annali dell'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 83/1-2: 61–98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24685631-12340141.
  • Galdieri 1978
    Galdieri Eugenio, A Few Conservation Problems Concerning Several Islamic Monuments in Ghazni (Afghanistan). Technical Report and Notes on a Plan of Action, IsMEO. Roma.
  • Galdieri 1982
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