Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar: Chronology and comparison (with an Appendix on a single specimen of tulip-bowl from Site MA-100)

Abstract

This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware represents a distinct chronological marker for the 3rd century CE phases, and, moreover, it is often associated to cultic contexts. The paper concludes with a note on a single finding of a tulip-bowl vessel at Mes Aynak (Site 100) which might have important implications on the chronology of the area's early occupation.