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Surroundings:

Odigram / Udegram (ancient Ora)Market area of Odigram / Udegram (ancient Ora)Rock inscriptionsRelief of BuddhaRock in the shape of an elephant's head

Location:

  • Pakistan, Khushab Baba
  • geo:34.743214,72.314308
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 10xx / 13xx

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=102122

Annotations

FACCENNA Domenico (1964), A Guide to the Excavations in Swat (Pakistan) 1956-1962, Department of Archaeology of Pakistan and Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) (https://pahar.in/pahar/Books%20and%20Articles/Indian%20Subcontinent/1964%20Guide%20to%20Excavations%20in%20Swat%20(Pakistan)%201956-1962%20by%20Faccenna%20s.pdf )

Scerrato, U. (1985) Research on the Archaeology and History of Islamic Art in Pakistan: Excavation of the Ghaznavid Mosque on Mt Raja Gira, Swat. EW, 35, 4, pp. 439-47

BAGNERA Alessandra (2010), "Islamic Udegram". An IsIAO Archaeological Project in Pakistan, in Proceedings of the 6 th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East May, 5 th -10 th 2009, “Sapienza” - Università di Roma, Volule 3 ( https://www.academia.edu/1584524/_Islamic_Udegram_An_IsIAO_Archaeological_Project_in_Pakistan )


Nearby

Udegram - Raja Ghira fort

Kushan, Sassanian and medieval (Hindu Shahi and Ghaznavid) fortress on a rocky high spur, connected to an ample walled perimeter. Probable seat of the principal local authority. Exacvated by IsMEO (1956).

Udegram ("Bazar") - ancient Ora ? (1 km)

Proto-historical (Assecanian), Hellenistic, Maurya, Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian, Kushan and Sassanian townsite. Identified as ancient town of Ora by Stein and Tucci. Excavated bu IsMEO. Mostly covered by urbanisation.

Gogdara II (1 km)

Proto-hisorical settlement. Inhabited with a certain continuity between the 12th century BCE and the Parthian period. Excavated by IsMEO in the 1950's.


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