The inventoried pottery from Tapa Sardar includes inscribed sherds (among them one with the inscription “Kanika mahārāja vihāra”, the temple of the Great King Kaniṣka) and many samples of stamped pottery (i.e. pottery with one or more impressions made on the vessels’ external surface), which seems to have been rather common in Afghanistan, south of the Hindukush, in the second half of the first millennium CE. These impressions, usually round in shape, display a remarkable variety of scenes and symbols: human figures, animals such as wild goats, horses, deer and birds, the vase of abundance, vegetal motifs, solar symbols and undeciphered geometrical patterns. No clearly recognizable Buddhist motifs appear in this repertoire; in fact, the iconographies share many similarities with the rock art of the Hindukush, thus suggesting the appurtenance to a cross-cultural symbolic universe.


 

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    TS00601
    Measures:
    H: 7; W: 6,8 cm
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    TS00602
    Measures:
    Max: 5 cm
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    TS00603
    Measures:
    Max: 6,2 cm
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    TS00604
    Measures:
    H: 4,6; W: 3,9 cm
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    TS00605
    Measures:
    H: 5,2; W: 4,8 cm
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    TS00607
    Measures:
    Max: 7,6 cm
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    TS00608
    Measures:
    Max: 7,3 cm
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    TS00609
    Measures:
    Max: 6,3 cm
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    TS00610
    Measures:
    Max: 7,4 cm
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    TS00611
    Measures:
    Max: 6,6 cm
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    TS00616
    Measures:
    Max: 10 cm
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    TS00617
    Measures:
    Max: 17,7 cm
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    TS00619
    Measures:
    Max: 5,9 cm
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    TS00620
    Measures:
    Max: 8,7 cm
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    TS00621
    Measures:
    Max: 7,3 cm
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    TS00622
    Measures:
    Max: 6,8 cm
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    TS00623
    Measures:
    Max: 6,1 cm
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    TS00624
    Measures:
    Max: 4,4 cm
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    TS00625
    Measures:
    Max: 4,3 cm
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    TS00626
    Measures:
    Max: 4,3 cm
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    TS00627
    Measures:
    Max: 4,5 cm
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    TS00832
    Measures:
    L (max): 9 cm
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    TS00833
    Measures:
    Max: 5,2 cm
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    TS00834
    Measures:
    W: 4 cm
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    TS00835
    Measures:
    W: 8 cm
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    TS00836
    Measures:
    H: 8,3; W: 6,5 cm
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    TS00837
    Measures:
    Max: 7,8 cm
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    TS00838
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 10,5 cm
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    TS00839
    Measures:
    L: 8 cm
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    TS00840
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 7,5 cm
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    TS00845
    Measures:
    Max: 4,7 cm
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    TS00853
    Measures:
    Max: 6,8 cm
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    TS00854
    Measures:
    Max: 4,5 cm
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    TS00855
    Measures:
    Max: 4,7 cm
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    TS00856
    Measures:
    Max: 4 cm
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    TS00857
    Measures:
    Max: 6,5 cm
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    TS00858
    Measures:
    Max: 5,2 cm
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    TS00859
    Measures:
    Max: 9,1 cm
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    TS00860
    Measures:
    Max: 6,1 cm
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    TS00861
    Measures:
    Max: 4,5 cm
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    TS01003
    Measures:
    Max: 9,1 cm
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    TS01005
    Measures:
    Max: 3,4 cm
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    TS01018
    Measures:
    Max: 5,8 cm
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    TS01019
    Measures:
    H: 5,8; W: 5,4 cm
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    TS01020
    Measures:
    Max: 5,3 cm
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    TS01026
    Measures:
    Max: 6,5 cm
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    TS01124
    Measures:
    H: 10,5; diam.: 12,4 cm
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    TS01135
    Measures:
    Max: 5,2 cm
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    TS01136
    Measures:
    Max: 13,2 cm
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    TS01171
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5; diam. (medallion): 2,8/3 cm
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    TS01179
    Measures:
    Max: 4,8; diam. (punch): 1,1 cm
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    TS01180
    Measures:
    Max: 6,9 cm
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    TS01181
    Measures:
    Max: 9,5; H (leaf): 1,9 cm
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    TS01182
    Measures:
    W (max): 6,8; H (stamp): 1,4 cm
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    TS01183
    Measures:
    Max: 9,5; diam. (spiral): 3,5/ 3,8 cm
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    TS01184
    Measures:
    Max: 17,3; diam. (lotus): 4 cm
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    TS01185
    Measures:
    Max: 13 cm
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    TS01186
    Measures:
    Max: 11,5 cm
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    TS01187
    Measures:
    Max: 8,5; diam. (lotus): 3,5 cm ca.
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    TS01188
    Measures:
    Max: 13 cm
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