Balalyk Tepe

Balalyk tepe
Mural detail, Balalyk Tepe, late 5th-7th century CE
Balalyk tepe is located in West and Central Asia
Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe
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Location of Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe is located in Bactria
Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe (Bactria)
Balalyk tepe is located in Uzbekistan
Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe
Balalyk tepe (Uzbekistan)

37°32′07″N 67°06′55″E / 37.535384°N 67.115405°E / 37.535384; 67.115405 Balalyk tepe, in former Bactria, modern Uzbekistan, is a Central Asian archaeological site with many mural paintings.[1] It was the site of a small fortified manor belonging to a princely Hephthalite clan.[2] It is generally dated a bit later than the painting at Dilberjin, from the late 5th century to the early 7th century CE,[3][1] or from the end of the 6th century to the early 7th century CE.[4] The paintings of Balalyk Tepe are part of a "Tokharistan school", which also includes Adzhina-tepe and Kafyr-kala.[5] They are succeeded chronologically by the Sogdian art of Penjikent.[6]

  1. ^ a b Dani, Ahmad Hasan; Litvinsky, B. A. (1996). History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations, A.D. 250 to 750. UNESCO. p. 183. ISBN 978-92-3-103211-0.
  2. ^ "The exacavations at Balalik Tepe (...) revealed the remains of a small fortified manor that was the seat of a princely Hephthalite clan." in Rowland, Benjamin (1975). The art of Central Asia. New York, Crown. p. 75.
  3. ^ MUZIO, CIRO LO (2008). "Remarks on the Paintings from the Buddhist Monastery of Fayaz Tepe (Southern Uzbekistan)". Bulletin of the Asia Institute. 22: 199. ISSN 0890-4464. JSTOR 24049243.
  4. ^ Dani, Ahmad Hasan (1999). History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-81-208-1540-7.
  5. ^ "The Tokharistan school was represented by Balalyk-tepe, Adzhina-tepe, Kafyr-kala; the northern Tokharistan school was found in the Buddhist Temples of Kuva and in Jeti-su" Kurbanov, Aydogdy (2014). "THE HEPHTHALITES: ICONOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS" (PDF). Tyragetia: 317–334.
  6. ^ Azarpay, Guitty; Belenickij, Aleksandr M.; Maršak, Boris Il'ič; Dresden, Mark J. (January 1981). Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. University of California Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-520-03765-6.