Dilberjin Tepe

Originally the temple was perhaps dedicated to the Dioscuri, of which a mural in Hellenistic style has been recovered.

[1] A long inscription in the kushan language was also discovered, dated to the early great Kushans, around the period of Kanishka I, on paleographic grounds, as it seems slightly younger than the inscription of Surkh Kotal.

Finds include inscriptions in Bactrian, most of them too destroyed to provide any historical information.

[6] These murals are general thought to represent Hephthalites, with their characteristic tunics with a single lapel folded to the right, cropped hair and ornaments.

[5] A much later fresco showing an Indian scene, with Shiva and Parvati on the bull Nandi, has been dated to the 8th century CE.