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Surroundings:

Oxus treasureOxus treasure, Gold plates with a magianOxus treasure, Statuette of a man in Persian dress

Location:

  • Tajikistan, Imeni Voroshilova
  • geo:37.10574,68.324554
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Archaeological observation
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=100806

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Relevant museums

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Unidentified site

Probable archaeological site. Square enclosure, badly damaged by modern activites. Located with satellite imagery.

Oxus Temple (3 km)

Monumental Hellenistic temple, in the middle of the citadel, probably financed by the royal house of the Seleucids, to act as a regional sanctuary. Dedicated to the Oxus river. Excavated by Pichikyan & Litvinsky (1976-1991), and Drujinina (1998)

Takht-i Sangin - ancient Oxeiana ? (3 km)

Achaemenid & Hellenistic settlement. Reduced to its citadel in Kushan times. Excavated by Pichikyan & Litvinsky (1976-1991), and Drujinina (1998). Probable town of Oxeiana in Ptolemy's Geography.


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