Books by Elizabeth Errington
Look at the Coins! Essays in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday, 2023
24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, mus... more 24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb's interests including Asian numismatics, museology, poetry and art. Papers are arranged geographically, then chronologically/thematically including studies on coins, charms and silver currencies in or from China; finds from ancient Central Asia and Afghanistan: coins of South Soghd, and far more.
Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833-1838
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson’s finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the ‘archaeological’ artefacts and a proportion of the coins.
This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.
The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).
The British Museum, Research Publication 219, 2021
This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghan... more This is the third and final volume on the excavations and collections of Charles Masson in Afghanistan. It uses his records and drawings in British Library archives to reconstruct the archaeological record and catalogue the coins and artefacts in the Masson collection of the British Museum.
Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations ... more Online publication of archival records relating to Charles Masson's excavations and explorations in Afghanistan 1832-1838 and his collections now in the British Museum.
From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore... more From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in southeast Afghanistan. During this period, he surveyed over a hundred Buddhist sites around Kabul, Jalalabad and Wardak, making numerous drawings of the sites, together with maps, compass readings, sections of the stupas and sketches of some of the finds. Small illustrations of a selection of these key sites were published in Ariana Antiqua in 1841. However, this represents only a tiny proportion of his official and private correspondence held in the India Office Collection of the British Library which is studied in detail in this publication. It is supplemented online by The Charles Masson Archive: British Library and British Museum Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication number 216). Together they provide the means for a comprehensive reconstitution of the archaeological record of the sites. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson's finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the 'archaeological' artefacts and a proportion of the coins. This volume studies the British Museum's collection of the Buddhist relic deposits, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context for the first time. Masson's collection of coins and finds from Begram are the subject of a separate study. Elizabeth Errington first began working on the archaeological records of Charles Masson during research for her doctoral thesis on the 19th-century discovery of the Buddhist sites of Gandhara. She was a curator of South and Central Asian coins in the British Museum (1993–2011) and from 1993 onwards has served as the coordinator and principal researcher for the British Museum's Masson Project.
(co-authored with V.S. Curtis)
London 2007.
(contributor/editor with J. Cribb)
Cambridge 1992.
(co-edited with R. and B. Allchin, N. Kreitman)
New Delhi 1997.
Papers by Elizabeth Errington
The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art (eds W.Rienjang & P. Stewart), 2022
19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhā... more 19th- and early 20th-century archival and photographic records are used to reconstruct the Gandhāran site of Jamālgarhī in the Peshawar basin, from its discovery by Alexander Cunningham in early January 1848 to its excavation by the Archaeological Survey of India in the 1920s.
Choice Reviews Online, Sep 1, 1998
L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici comm... more L'auteur propose un reexamen de la derniere identification (19eme siecle), jusqu'ici communement admise, des sites traverses par trois pelerins bouddhistes (Fa-shien, Sung-yun, et Hsuang-tsang) du 5eme au 7eme siecle apr. J.-C., et particulierement en ce qui concerne la vallee de Peshawar dans la region du Gandhāra.
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 2006
Topoï, 1995
Topoi, 5/2, 1995, pp. 411-24.
Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of piv... more Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Buddhism. Among the treasures unearthed are hundreds of reliquaries--containers housing relics of the Buddha. This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and numismatics to clarify the significance and function of these reliquaries. The story begins with the Buddha's last days, his death and funerary arrangements, and the distribution of the cremated remains, which initiated a relic cult. Chapters describe Gandharan reliquary types and subgroups, the archaeological and historical significance of collections, and the paleographic and linguistic interpretation of the inscriptions on the reliquaries. The 400 reliquaries illustrated and surveyed are from museums and private collections in Pakistan, India, Japan, Europe, and North America. Stone is the primary material of construction, along with bronze, gold, and silver. Shapes range from spherical and cylindrical to miniature stupas, a configuration that provides valuable information about the history of this Buddhist monumental form.
Topoï, 2001
Topoi 11/1, 2001 [2003], pp. 357-409.
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Books by Elizabeth Errington
This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.
The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).
Papers by Elizabeth Errington
This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.
The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).
“丝绸之路上的中华文明” 国际学术工作坊日程 （北京大学，2019年1月9-10日)