🧿 Tapa Shotor

Afghanistan · Asia · 34.37°N, 70.47°E

Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor, was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of Tapa Shotor suggests that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara descended directly from the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum.

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Quick facts

Country	Afghanistan
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	34.37°N, 70.47°E · view on map

Tapa Shotor is located in Afghanistan, in Asia.

More archaeological sites in Afghanistan

Ai-Khanoum · Alexandria in the Caucasus · Buddhas of Bamiyan · Chil Zena · Darra-e Kur · Fondukistan monastery · Fort of Bost · Haji Piyada Mosque · Kabul hoard · Khair Khaneh.

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