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RAS History & PhilologyРоссийская археология Russian archeology

ISSN (Print) 0869-6063
ISSN (Online) 3034-5774

Bolelov Sergey

PhD (History)
Senior Research Fellow
The State Museum of Oriental Art

Author ID: 16330
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1423-293X

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NOTES ON THE BACTRIAN POTTERY (ON THE QUESTION ABOUT DATING THE CAST FORM OF THE BRONZE CAULDRON FROM THE TEMPLE OF OXUS, TAKHTI-SANGIN)

Issue 4 from 01.10.2014

The article considers a ceramics complex which was found in the settlement Takhti-Sangin together with a unique clay cast for moulding bronze cauldrons. The researches have dated the complex back to the first half of the 2 ^nd century BC. However, as the detailed analysis of the vessels’ fragments from the complex shows, it is not simultaneous. On the whole, on the basis of numerous analogues it can be dated in the frames of the 3 ^rd century BC - the first quarter of the 2 ^nd century AD. As ceramics, the same as the cast form was found in the trash layers, such a diverse in time ceramic complex cannot be a basis for more precise dating of a cauldron casting.

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