Salt Range Temple Project
Curatorial Section
Research Discipline
Archaeology
Dates
1998 - 2012
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A number of sites are located along the Indus River and on the Salt Range plateau in the North West Frontier and Punjab provinces in Pakistan, south of Peshawar and southwest of Islamabad.
- Time Period Studied
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These temples represent an early school of temple architecture in the late sixth to eighth centuries, evolving in the ninth and tenth centuries under new patronage into a unique variety of multi-storied temple.
- Researcher(s)
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- Michael W. Meister, University of Pennsylvania
- Abdur Rehman, University of Peshawar (emeritus)
- Farid Khan, Pakistan Heritage Society, Peshawar
- Project Overview
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Salt Range Temple Project surveys seventh-to-tenth-century Hindu temples preserved along the Indus River and in the Salt Range, Pakistan. A two-phase chronology has been worked out, in part confirmed by archaeological discoveries and excavations carried out at one site, Kafirkot North. A series of publications have reported on aspects of the work in progress.
- Additional Sponsors
This project surveys seventh-to-tenth-century Hindu temples preserved along the Indus River and in the Salt Range, Pakistan.
A two-phase chronology has been worked out, in part confirmed by archaeological discoveries and excavations carried out at one site, Kafirkot North. A series of publications have reported on aspects of the work in progress.