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Metal Detecting Finds in Turkmenistan

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Turkmenistan — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Turkmenistan

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Famous findParthian, about 3rd to 1st century BC · found 1948

The Nisa Rhytons: Parthian kings' ivory drinking horns found in a treasury in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan · ArtefactsFF 299

In the autumn of 1948 archaeologists excavating the treasury of Old Nisa, an early capital of the Parthian kings in Turkmenistan, found dozens of carved ivory drinking horns still lying on the bench where they had been stored, decorated with griffins, centaurs and Greek gods.