http://blogs.fco.gov.uk/ukintajikistan/2013/03/25/in-search-of-oxus-treasure-trip-to-takhti-sangin/
Location:
- Afghanistan, Imeni Voroshilova
- geo:37.054417,68.281937
- Location ± 0-5 m.
Period or year:
- -400~ / unknown
Class:
- Find
- visible
Identifiers:
- vici:place=31770
- wikidata:entity=Q1246609
Annotations
Relevant museums
The British Museum
The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
Nearby
Takht-i Kuwad
Achaemenid and Hellenistic settlement. Rectangular mound, badly damaged in recent times, and better visible on Corona imagery (1972). Thought to be the original findspot of the "Oxus Treasure".
Takht-i Sangin - ancient Oxeiana ? (4 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.
Oxus Temple (4 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)