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ID: 7032375
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032375
Record Type:
administrative
Tillya Tepe (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 42 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.7000
decimal degrees
Long: 065 47 13 E
degrees minutes
Long: 65.7860
decimal degrees
Note:
Site in northern Afghanistan, best known for a hoard discovered there, known as the Bactrian gold, comprising over 20,000 gold ornaments that were found in six burial mounds. Remains at the site date from 1st century BCE to 1st century CE.
Names:
Tillya Tepe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tillya-tepe
(
C
,
V
)
Tillia tepe
(
C
,
V
)
Tillā tapa
(
C
,
V
)
طلا تپه
(
C
,
V
,
Persian-Farsi
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Afghanistan
(nation) (
P
)
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Jowzjān
(province) (
P
)
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Tillya Tepe
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
burial site (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
طلا تپه..........
[
VP
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Tillia tepe..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Tillā tapa..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Tillya Tepe..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Zorich, Afghanistan's Secret Treasure, Archaeology (2008)
accessed 12 February 2009
Tillya-tepe..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Sarianidi, Treasure, American Journal of Archaeology (1980)
accessed 12 February 2009
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Sarianidi, Treasure, American Journal of Archaeology (1980)
accessed 12 February 2009
..................
Zorich, Afghanistan's Secret Treasure, Archaeology (2008)
accessed 12 February 2009
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
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© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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