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Location

  • Tajikistan, Urtanobod
  • geo:36.980476,68.088867

Period or year

  • 10~ / 5xx?

Classification

  • vicus
  • Visible

Tepai Shahk

data access 76521

Southern Tajikistan in Kushan period (https://www.ss.i.ryukoku.ac.jp/darc/tj/tajikistanEnglish/C-ancienttime/C-6top.html )

LITVINSKY B.A. & SEDOV A.V. (1983), Tepai Shah – Culture et connexions en Bactriane Koushane (russe) (Литвинский Б.А., Седов А.В. Тепаи-шах. Культура и связи кушанской Бактрии. М., 1983) (https://eu-spb.academia.edu/SergeyAbashin )

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)

Relevant museums

  • The British Museum
    The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Holborn

Nearby sites

  • Tepai Shahk necropolis
    Kushan necropolis, investigated by Litvinsky (1972°. Marked by several mausoleums (naus), since destroyed.
    Afghanistan, Urtanobod
  • Khirman-Tepe
    Achaemenid and Hellenistic settlement. Western part visible on Corona imagery (1972), since destroyed by modern cultivation.
    Tajikistan, Urtanobod
  • Patta Tepe ?
    Probable archaeological site. Surveyed by Litvinsky (1972).
    Tajikistan, Urtanobod
  • Unidentified site
    Probable archaeological. Located with satellite imagery. Western smaller mounds destroyed, but visible on Corona imagery (1972).
    Tajikistan, Urtanobod

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Creators: Entry created by Julien De Chocqueuse (2022-02-11) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/76521
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: De Chocqueuse, J. , Tepai Shahk. https://vici.org/vici/76521, accessed 2026-11-14.