Bolelov S.B.
Key words: Bactrian, Takhti-Sangin, Kampyrtepa, Hellinistic pottery complex, Yuezhi-Bactrian pottery complex, moulding form, fine vessels.

The article considers a ceramics complex which was found in the settlement Takhti-Sangin together with a unique clay cast for moulding bronze cauldrons. The researches have dated the complex back to the first half of the 2nd century BC. However, as the detailed analysis of the vessels’ fragments from the complex shows, it is not simultaneous. On the whole, on the basis of numerous analogues it can be dated in the frames of the 3rd century BC – the first quarter of the 2nd century AD. As ceramics, the same as the cast form was found in the trash layers, such a diverse in time ceramic complex cannot be a basis for more precise dating of a cauldron casting.