The article aims at framing in one and the same context different pieces of archaeological evidence from Swat .having in common a Hindu affiliation, in particular rock sculptures representing Surya, the Vaisnava temple of Barikot and the still unexcavated site of Tindo-dag. Significant chronological, topographic and ideological connections have been detected and highlighted. Especially when considered together, they provide the first, important witness to non-buddhist cults during the period that we can label as Śāhi or, more precisely, judging from the archaeological context, Turki Śāhi (7th century CE). Thus, rock reliefs of non-Buddhist subjects (an apparently anomaly in an otherwise coherently Buddhist context, can no more to be regarded as the extemporaneous expression of some unknown will but as the outcome of a foreign culture that had to find its own space in a stranger land and among its rooted traditions.
Post-Gandharan Swat. Late Buddhist rock sculptures and Turki Śāhi’s religious centres
FILIGENZI, Anna
2011-01-01
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The article aims at framing in one and the same context different pieces of archaeological evidence from Swat .having in common a Hindu affiliation, in particular rock sculptures representing Surya, the Vaisnava temple of Barikot and the still unexcavated site of Tindo-dag. Significant chronological, topographic and ideological connections have been detected and highlighted. Especially when considered together, they provide the first, important witness to non-buddhist cults during the period that we can label as Śāhi or, more precisely, judging from the archaeological context, Turki Śāhi (7th century CE). Thus, rock reliefs of non-Buddhist subjects (an apparently anomaly in an otherwise coherently Buddhist context, can no more to be regarded as the extemporaneous expression of some unknown will but as the outcome of a foreign culture that had to find its own space in a stranger land and among its rooted traditions.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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