Dalverzin-Tepe
Coordinates: 38 ° 6 ′ 4 ″ N , 67 ° 51 ′ 38 ″ E
Dalverzin-Tepe ( Dal'verzin-Tepe ) are the remains of an important ancient city in the south of present-day Uzbekistan on Surxondaryo , 20 kilometers south of the present-day city of Denov in the corridor south of the village of Tally . Dalverzin-Tepe was initially probably a small border fortress of the Greek-Bactrian kingdom . It developed in the first century BC. To a bigger city. Perhaps it is the remains of the capital of the Yuezhi , which in turn are mainly known from Chinese sources. Under the Kushan -Reich the city experienced its greatest flowering. The Greco-Bactrian fortress was turned into a citadel. After the third century, the city lost its importance and was abandoned around 800.
The city of the Kuschana was regularly laid out with its own city quarters for administration, living, temples and workshops. The buildings were made of rammed earth. The residential buildings of the upper class usually had an iwan , an entrance hall, a central hall, the living areas and a home shrine. Underground pipes supplied these houses with water.
Two Buddhist temples and two temples dedicated to a local deity could be excavated. There was also a Zoroastrian cult site. Pottery workshops were found on the outskirts of the city. A gold treasure was found during excavations in the city. In addition, numerous sculptures in the Gandhara style come from here .
literature
- Sebastian Stride: An Archaeological GIS of the Surkhan Darya Province (Southern Uzbekistan) . In: Barcelona University (ed.): The Silk Road . Vol 2 - 2, 2008, pp. 30-35 . ( Full text (PDF file; 5.99 MB) as digital copy)