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Surroundings:

Balkh, Capital

Location:

  • Afghanistan, Balkh
  • geo:36.756126,66.914886
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -5xx / 12xx

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=93104

Annotations

BALL Warwick (2018), Archaeological gazetteer of Afghanistan, revised edition, Oxford


Relevant museums

Kabul, National Museum of Aghanistan

Kabul, National Museum of Aghanistan


Nearby

Pir-i Kamal Al-Din (BALL-2175)

Medieval Islamic (?) and Timurid (?) baked brick single-dome shrine. Part of what was once a large garden (bagh). Site information by J. Lee (2000).

Balkh, inner wall

Inner fortification of Balkh, from Timurid times. Partially destroyed by modern urbanisation, but visible on CORONA imagery.

Unidentified site, Balkh

Probable ancient building. Located with satellite imagery.


This object was added by Julien De Chocqueuse on 2023-12-17. Last update by Julien De Chocqueuse on 2023-12-26. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/93104 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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Line tracing by Julien De Chocqueuse.

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