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Surroundings:

Rock inscriptionsRelief of BuddhaRock in the shape of an elephant's head

Location:

  • Pakistan, Khushab Baba
  • geo:34.741791,72.313171
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 1xx / 13xx

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=18309

Annotations

CRAST - Archaeological research and areas of intervention in Swat, Project: Archaeological research in Udegram (https://www.centroscavitorino.it/en/siti-di-scavo/swat-2/ )

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 )

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 )

Indian fortress at Ora (modern Udegram) in (326 BC) (http://www.livius.org/battle/ora-odigram/)


Nearby

Udegram - Ghaznavid mosque

Ghaznavid ruined mosque, inside Raja Ghira fortress complex. Excavated by IsMEO (1956-58).

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.


This object was added by Jona Lendering on 2014-03-21. Last update by Julien De Chocqueuse on 2025-12-12. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/18309 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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