Shortugai
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Shortugai (Shortughai) was an Indus civilization trading colony established about 2000 BC on the Oxus river near the lapis mines in northern Afghanistan.[1][2] According to Sergent, "not one of the standard characteristics of the Harappan cultural complex is missing from it".[3]
The town consists of two hills called A and B by the excavators. One of them was once the town proper, the other one the citadel. Each of them is about 2 hectares large. Typical finds of the Indus Valley Civilization include one seal with a short inscription[4], clay models of cattle with cars[5] and painted pottery.[6]
Notes
- ^ Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark (1998). Ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-19-577940-1.
Another source of gold was along the Oxus river valley in northern Afghanistan where a trading colony of the Indus cities has been discovered at Shortughai. Situated far from the Indus Valley itself, this settlement may have been established to obtain gold, copper, tin and lapis lazuli, as well as other exotic goods from Central Asia.
- ^ Bowersox, Gary W.; Chamberlin, Bonita E. Ph. D. (1995). "Gemstones of Afghanistan" (Document). Geoscience Press. p. 52.
{{cite document}}: Unknown parameter|publication-place=ignored (help). "During the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 B.C., the Harappan colony of Shortugai was established near the lapis mines." - ^ Bernard Sergent. Genèse de l'Inde, quoted by Elst 1999
- ^ Francfort: Fouilles de Shortughai, pl. 75, no. 7
- ^ Francfort: Fouilles de Shortughai, pls. 81-82
- ^ Francfort: Fouilles de Shortughai, pls. 59-61
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- Henri-Paul Francfort: Fouilles de Shortughai, Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale Protohistorique Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1989
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