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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    TS01298
    Measures:
    Max: 8,8 cm
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    TS01324
    Measures:
    Diam.: 37 cm ca.
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    TS01325
    Measures:
    H: 7,1 cm
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    TS01330
    Measures:
    Max: 9,7; diam. (stamp): 3,5 cm
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    TS01332
    Measures:
    Max: 4,2; diam. (stamp): 3,3 cm
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    TS01333
    Measures:
    Max: 10,3; diam. (stamp): 2,9 cm
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    TS01345
    Measures:
    Max: 5,7 cm
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    TS01368
    Measures:
    Max: 3,3 cm
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    TS01608
    Measures:
    Max: 5 cm
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    TS01609
    Measures:
    Max: 11,8 cm
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    TS01610
    Measures:
    Max: 7 cm
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    TS01650
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5; stamp: 3,8 x 2,8 cm
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    TS01658
    Measures:
    Max: 6,9 cm
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    TS01714
    Measures:
    Max: 9,2 cm
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    TS01715
    Measures:
    Max: 13,8; diam. (stamp): 3,9 cm
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    TS01751
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5 cm
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    TS01770
    Measures:
    H: 3,6; W: 3,8 cm
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    TS01833
    Measures:
    Max: 8,1 cm
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    TS01834
    Measures:
    Max: 15; diam. (stamp): 2,5 cm
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    TS01847
    Measures:
    Max: 8,8 cm
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    TS01848
    Measures:
    Max: 4,1 cm
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    TS01915
    Measures:
    Max: 7,6 cm
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    TS01983
    Measures:
    Max: 11 cm
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    TS01984
    Measures:
    Max: 6 cm
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    TS02001
    Measures:
    H: 6,5; W: 6,2 cm
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    TS02002
    Measures:
    Max: 13,3 cm
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    TS02003
    Measures:
    Max: 8 cm
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    TS02004
    Measures:
    Max: 8,8 cm
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    TS02005
    Measures:
    Max: 11,7 cm
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    TS02006
    Measures:
    Max: 6,7 cm
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    TS01577
    Measures:
    H: 9,3; W: 7,8 cm
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    TS01578
    Measures:
    H: 8,9; W: 8 cm
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    TS01579
    Measures:
    H: 11; W: 9,6 cm
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    TS01580
    Measures:
    H: 3,9; W: 7,6 cm
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    TS01581
    Measures:
    H: 5,8; W: 6,7 cm
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    TS01582
    Measures:
    H (main fragment): 10,7; W: 12 cm
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    TS01583
    Measures:
    H: 10,5; W: 14 cm
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    TS01598
    Measures:
    Max: 4,8 cm
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    TS01608
    Measures:
    Max: 5 cm
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    TS01609
    Measures:
    Max: 11,8 cm
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    TS01610
    Measures:
    Max: 7 cm
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    TS01650
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5; stamp: 3,8 x 2,8 cm
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    TS01658
    Measures:
    Max: 6,9 cm
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    TS01714
    Measures:
    Max: 9,2 cm
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    TS01715
    Measures:
    Max: 13,8; diam. (stamp): 3,9 cm
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    TS01751
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5 cm
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    TS01770
    Measures:
    H: 3,6; W: 3,8 cm
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    TS01833
    Measures:
    Max: 8,1 cm
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    TS01834
    Measures:
    Max: 15; diam. (stamp): 2,5 cm
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    TS01847
    Measures:
    Max: 8,8 cm
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    TS01848
    Measures:
    Max: 4,1 cm
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    TS01915
    Measures:
    Max: 7,6 cm
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    TS01983
    Measures:
    Max: 11 cm
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    TS01984
    Measures:
    Max: 6 cm
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    TS02001
    Measures:
    H: 6,5; W: 6,2 cm
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    TS02002
    Measures:
    Max: 13,3 cm
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    TS02003
    Measures:
    Max: 8 cm
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    TS02004
    Measures:
    Max: 8,8 cm
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    TS02005
    Measures:
    Max: 11,7 cm
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    TS02006
    Measures:
    Max: 6,7 cm
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