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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    TS00316
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    Max: 5,6 cm
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    TS00331
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    Max: 5,5 cm
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    TS00332
    Measures:
    Max: 6,5 cm
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    TS00333
    Measures:
    Max (a): 7; Max (b): 4,9 cm
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    TS00334
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    Max: 7,1 cm
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    TS00335
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    Max: 7 cm
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    TS00336
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    Max: 5,5 cm
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    TS00337
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    Max: 7,5 cm
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    TS00338
    Measures:
    Max: 11,5 cm
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    TS00339
    Measures:
    Max : 9 cm
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    TS00438
    Measures:
    H: 4,1; W: 4,3 cm
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    TS00439
    Measures:
    H: 3,7; W: 2,9 cm
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    TS00443
    Measures:
    Max: 10,5 cm
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    TS00444
    Measures:
    Max: 6 cm
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    TS00445
    Measures:
    Max: 7,3 cm
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    TS00446
    Measures:
    Max: 4 cm
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    TS00447
    Measures:
    H: 9; W: 8 cm
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    TS00448
    Measures:
    Max: 4,1 cm
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    TS00449
    Measures:
    Max: 6,2 cm
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    TS00450
    Measures:
    Max: 8,2 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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    TS00451
    Measures:
    Max: 4,5 cm
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    TS00452
    Measures:
    Max: 7,2 cm
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    TS00618
    Measures:
    Max: 5 cm
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    TS00594
    Measures:
    Max: 6,2 cm
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    TS00599
    Measures:
    Max: 5,6 cm
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    TS00600
    Measures:
    Max: 5,7 cm
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