Termez. Kara Tepe. Museum of Termez.1

3D Model

Flat-bottomed Kushan amphora, with globular body and elongated neck with a fluting at the beginning. It has two vertical double moulding handles that start in the middle of the neck and finish on the shoulder. Relatively narrow mouth compared to the body of the glass. The edge is distinguished by a trapezoidal section vertical lip with external grooves / trims. More than the upper two thirds external of the amphora are covered with a red slip that has a decoration of burnished lines: chained irregular ellipsoids. It has its maximum diffusion during the Kushan-Sasanian period.

GURT ESPARRAGUERA, J.M., ARIÑO GIL, E., MARTÍNEZ FERRERAS, V., PIDAEV, S.R. (2015). The Buddhist occupation of Tchingiz Tepe (Termez, Uzbekistan) in the Kushan period through the ceramic contexts, Archaeological Research in Asia 3, 19–33. DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2015.04.003