The sensational finds made at Tillya Tepe in Northern Afghanistan close to the modern city of Sheberghān, are the primary source for reconstructing the cultural history of Bactria in the turbulent period between the end of Greek rule and the rise of the Kushan Empire. The paucity of written sources from this period (mid second century BCE to mid first century CE ), and our resulting lack of understanding of even major political and cultural events, has led to its apt characterization as the “Dark Age” of Bactrian history. In this context, a special place should therefore be reserved for archaeological finds and Tillya Tepe is undoubtedly the most important site of this period. The significance of the Tillya Tepe finds for the reconstruction of Bactrian history and its cultural landscape has long been recognized, but they still have much to offer in terms of historical inquiry. In what follows I shall attempt a new reconstruction of the headdress of a “prince” buried in Grave IV and conclude that it allows us to place him within the orbit of the Indo-Parthian Gondopharid dynasty, one of the most powerful regional political entities of the period.

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蒂莉亚·特佩“王子”的头饰

在靠近现代城市Sheberghān的阿富汗北部Tillya Tepe取得的轰动发现，是在希腊统治结束和库山帝国崛起之间的动荡时期重建细菌文化历史的主要来源。此时期（公元前二世纪中叶到公元一世纪中叶）这段时期的书面资料很少，加上我们对主要的政治和文化事件的缺乏了解，导致其被恰当地描述为双峰时代的“黑暗时代”。因此，在这种情况下，应该为考古发现保留一个特殊的地方，而蒂莉亚·特佩无疑是这一时期最重要的遗址。Tillya Tepe发现的东西对于重建双峰历史及其文化景观具有重要意义，但就历史调查而言，他们仍然可以提供许多帮助。接下来，我将尝试对埋在格雷夫四世中的“王子”头饰进行新的重建，并得出结论，这使我们能够将他置于印巴党的贡多法里德王朝的轨道上，该王朝是印度最强大的地区政治实体之一时期。