Tapa Sardār

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تپه سردار
Tappe-ye Sar-dār
Tappe-ye Sar-dār (Afghanistan)
Tappe-ye Sar-dār
Tappe-ye Sar-dār
Coordinates 33 ° 32 '  N , 68 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 33 ° 32 '  N , 68 ° 27'  E
Basic data
Country Afghanistan
province Ghazni
Tapé sardar.jpg

Tapa Sardār ( Persian تپه سردار, DMG Tappe-ye Sar-dār , 'General Hill'), also Tepe Sardar , is the ruin of a large Buddhist stupa - monastery complex with a Hindu shrine , which is located four kilometers southeast of the city of Ghazni . From 1959 to 1977 the complex was explored by archaeologists from IsMEO.

literature

  • Mauricio Taddei , Giovanni Verardi: Tapa Sardār Second Preliminary report. In: East and West. vol. 28, No. 1/4, December 1978, pp. 33-135
  • JE Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw (Ed.): South Asian Archeology: Papers from the Third International. Volume 3, Leiden 1975.
  • A. Filigenzi: Ritual Forms, Cult Objects. Tapa Sardar at the Crossroads of Places and Phases of the Buddhist ecumene. In: A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (Ed.): Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957–2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome. Rome 2009, pp. 59-75.
  • A. Filigenzi: Late Buddhist Art in Archaeological Context: Some Reflections on the Sanctuary of Tapa Sardar. In: C. Bautze-Picron (Ed.): Religion and Art. New Issues in Indian Iconography and Iconology. Proceedings of the 18th conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, London 2005. Vol. 1, London 2008, pp. 49-62.
  • A. Filigenzi: The Dāna and the Pātra. Evidence from the Archaeological Context of Tapa Sardar. In: C. Bautze-Picron (Ed.): Miscellanies about the Buddha Image. South Asian Archeology 2007. Special Session 1 (BAR International Series 1888). Oxford 2008, pp. 11-24.
  • A. Filigenzi: The Buddhist Site of Tapa Sardar. In: A. Filigenzi, R. Giunta (Ed.): Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957–2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome. Rome 2009, pp. 41-57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tepe Sardar. Retrieved May 1, 2014 .