SURKH KOTAL STEPWELL

(ولسوالی پل خمری - AF)
36.050000,68.566700
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A man-made stepwell (note 1) at Surkh Kotal (note 2), an ancient Kushan site (note 3) at an almost isolated spur of hills which facing eastwards across the plain on the left (western) side of Khulm (Kholm) River (LEVI, P 1972 edited 2000: 94-98).A man-made stepwell (note 1) at Surkh Kotal (note 2), an ancient Kushan site (note 3) at an almost isolated spur of hills which facing eastwards across the plain on the left (western) side of Khulm (Kholm) River (LEVI, P 1972 edited 2000: 94-98).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Levi, Peter 1972 edited 1984, 2000, 2002; Schlumberger, Daniel 1953, 1961, 1964; Wheeler, R E Mortimer 1968.

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1951: The site was first discovered through inscriptions … which came to light during the making of a road at the end of summer 1951 (LEVI 1972 edited 2000). 1970: Peter LEVI (1972 edited 1984, 2000: 86, 2002) in company with Bruce Chatwin, visited. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.0CHASHMAH-i- SHER (Cave at)
18.3RABATEK (Cave at)
60.8Osama Bin Laden, Kohe Sheikh Hazrat (Tahkhana ke)
147.8HAZAR GUSFAND (Ghar i)
148.1Darra-i Kur
161.2CASEM (Grotte di)
174.3HAZARSUM, Takhar
208.9FEYZABAD (Cave at)
286.9SHOGHORE (Caves at)