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We present the general location and importance of the site (at 2260 m, at the mouth of one of the highest passes leading south from Zarafshân), its identification with Martushkat mentioned in the Documents du Mont Mugh, the exceptional state of preservation of the organic remains (notably an "Afghan" greyhound whose remains are currently being analyzed) and the carved wood (very similar in execution to those found in the sites of Ustrushana, further north), architectural techniques, the spatial organization of the city, and the few Sogdian administrative documents written on wooden planks, which appear to be later than those from Punjikent and Mount Mugh. Particular attention is paid to the so-called "domestic chapels" also identified at other Sogdian and Bactrian sites: the architecture and contexts of the newly discovered examples fully confirm the secular interpretation proposed by Paul Bernard as early as 1980.
