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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:37.098591,68.284653
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx / 2xx

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=31768

Annotations

LINDSTROM Gunvor (2021), Southern Tajikistan, in ed. R. Mairs,The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World, Routledge Worlds, 286-312 (https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/the-graeco-bactrian-and-indo-greek-world-routledge-worlds-1nbsped-1138090697-9781138090699.html)

RAPIN Claude (2018), On the way to Roxane 2 - Satraps and hyparchs between Bactra and Zariaspa-Maracanda, in. J. Lhuillier, N. Boroffka (edd.), A Millennium of History - The Iron Age in Central Asia (2nd and 1st millennia BC), Archäologie in Iran und Turan 16 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307149674_On_the_way_to_Roxane_2_Satraps_and_hyparchs_between_Bactra_and_Zariaspa-Maracanda )


Relevant museums

The British Museum

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


Nearby

Oxus Temple

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)

Unidentified site (3 km)

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

Unidentified site (3 km)

Probable archaeological site. Rectangular mound, visible on Corona imagery (1972), since destroyed, possibly by vandalizing.


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