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Surroundings:

Barikot / Bir-Kot (ancient Bazira), seen from the eastBarikot / Bir-Kot (ancient Bazira), seen from the westSwat valley

Location:

  • Pakistan, Balo Kalle
  • geo:34.630959,72.179619
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 80~ / 9xx

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=102172

Annotations

WIKIPEDIA - Gumbat Stupa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbat_Stupa )

OLIVIERI Luca Maria & FILIGENZI Anna (2018), On Gandhāran sculptural production from Swat: recent archaeological and chronological data, in Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art, eds. Wannaporn Rienjang & Peter Stewart

OLIVIERI L. M. et al., 2014, The Last Phases of the Urban site of Bir-kot-ghwandai (Barikot). The Buddhist sites of Gumbat and Amluk-dara (Barikot). ACT Reports and Memoirs, II, Sang-e-Meel Publisher, Lahore.

OLIVIERI Luca M. (2019), A short note on contexts and chronology of the materials from Saidu Sharif, Amluk-dara, Gumbat and Barikot (Swat) (https://www.academia.edu/72864685/A_short_note_on_contexts_and_chronology_of_the_materials_from_Saidu_Sharif_Amluk_dara_Gumbat_and_Barikot_Swat_ )


Nearby

Tokar-dara complex (4 km)

Buddhist complex, built in the 1st c. CE. Studied by M. Ashraf Khan and M. Farooq Swati (2012).

Najigram stupa complex (4 km)

Remains of Buddhist complex. Located with Google Maps.

Bir-kot-ghwandai - Ancient Bazira (6 km)

Late Bronze Age, proto-historical, Mauryan, Indo-greek and up to 15th c. archaeological site (12 ha), comprised of an acropolis and a lower town. Identified as ancient Bazira / Beira city of greek sources. Excavated by IsMEO since 1984.


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