SPACH Photo Catalogue of Major Priority Sites and Monuments:

Provinces:

Badakhshan Badghis
Baghlan
Balkh
Bamyan
Farah
Faryab
Ghazni
Ghor
Herat
Helmand
Jawzjan
Kabul
Kandahar
Kapisa
Khost
Kunar
Kunduz
Laghman
Logar
Nangarhar
Nimroz
Nuristan
Paktika
Paktya
Parwan
Samangan
Sari Pul
Takhar
Uruzgan
Wardak
Zabu
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RABATAK:

LOCATION: Baghlan Province. 40 km east of Haibak on the road to Pul-i Khumri.

DATES: Kushan, Hephthalite and Turk, 1st-9th C. (Ceramic); Timurid, 15th-16th C. (Architectural, ceramic).

DESCRIPTION: Remains of an old brick caravanserai and various miscellaneous mud-brick structures. The caravanserai has a rectangular courtyard awith four or five domed chambers openning into it on the north and south sides. To the north are remains of mud-brick torwes on the hillside.

From Ball, W. Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Paris, 1982, p. 226

CONDITION: heavily looted by local commander

 

 

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