Dal'verzintepe
Dal'verzintepe, also in Uzbekistan, on the foothills of the Surkhan-darya, the tributary of the Amu-darya that flows into Termez and forms the main valley of northern Tokharestân, was excavated mainly between 1962 and 1974 by the JuTAKÈ team [1]. The evolutionary pattern is similar to that of Kampyrtepa, except that the stages were completed earlier: a 4-hectare citadel as early as the Graeco-Bactrian period, then a lower town that would have received its first fortification in the 1st c. AD, i.e. before the Great Kampyrtepa. è., i.e. before the Great Kushans or at the beginning of this period. The scale is also different: the fortified site covers 31 ha, making it the most important site in northern Tokharestân after Termez, and it has a sizeable suburb and irrigated agricultural belt. Its end was slower: a gradual desertion in the 3rd and 4thcenturies , a process completed by the nomadic invasions. The social facies appears much more diversified than at Kampyrtepa. There is little evidence of a military population (but the citadel has been little excavated), and the street network is not determined by access to the towers. Commercial activities are represented by a potters' quarter and a wine stall. The general artistic ambience is quite different from that of Kampyrtepa: several houses and even the small Buddhist potters' shrine feature high-quality wall paintings [2]. Two large houses follow the basic plan of the Aï Khanoum houses, but with an amplification and heightening of the reception room, a bipartition of the other rooms for which several explanations can be offered (public and private areas, men's wing and women's wing?), but at the same time an atrophy of the bathrooms that were present in all Greek residences.
