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Multi-periodSite Name: Tillia tepe Alternative Name: Tillya tepe, Tillā tapa, طلا تپهCountry: Afghanistan
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Type: Artificial Mound
Latitude: 36.700000N Longitude: 65.787000E
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
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4 | Short walk on a footpath |
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Tillia tepe is an archaeological site in northern Afghanistan near Sheberghan, surveyed in 1979 by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi, a year before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 20,000 gold ornaments and coins were found in six graves (five women and one man) with extremely rich jewelry, dated to around the 1st century BCE.
Altogether several thousand pieces of fine jewelry were recovered, usually made of gold, turquoise and/or lapis-lazuli. The ornaments include coins, necklaces set with gems, belts, medallions and crowns. A new museum in Kabul is being planned where the Bactrian gold will eventually be kept.
Tillya Tepe is located in the Western portion of the region of ancient Bactria. The heavily fortified town of Yemshi-tepe, just five kilometres to the northeast of modern Sheberghan on the road to Akcha, is only half a kilometre from the now-famous necropolis of Tillia-tepe.
Several coins dated up to the early 1st century CE, with none dated later, suggest a 1st century CE date for the burial. The burial could correspond to Scythian or Parthian tribes dwelling in the area, or may correspond to the extinction of the local Yuezhi royal dynasty after the conquests of all the other xihou or 'princes' in Daxia by Kujula Kadphises.
A silver coin was found in one of the tombs from the reigns of the Parthian king Mithridates II, who ruled c. 123–88 BCE. The coin was found in tomb III, and was apparently held in the hand of the defunct woman.
It is thought that the site belonged to Sakas (Asian Scythians, who were later to migrate to India, where they are known as Indo-Scythians), although some suggest the Yuezhi (future Kushans) or eastern Parthians as an alternative. Several of the artifacts are highly consistent with a Scythian origin, such as the royal crown or the polylobed decorated daggers discovered in the tombs. Several of the dead exhibited ritual deformation of the skull, a practice which is well documented among Central Asian nomads of the period.
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