page_title: Jankent
section_title: Town wall
hierarchical_section_title: Jankent / Archaeological evidence / Town wall
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of Jankent by Chorasmian Expedition (1963), with additional annotations showing elements of the town (I.A. Arzhantseva 2015)
context_page_description: Jankent is a deserted town east of the Aral Sea in modern Kazakhstan. It is known from Arab writings of the 10th century AD as the capital of the steppe empire of the Oghuz Turks. Archaeological research has provided information about the appearance of the town and confirmed the date, but also points to earlier origins.
context_section_description: A trench in the kink of the southern town wall (Trench P5) proved that the T-shaped lay-out of the wall circuit was part of the original design, similar to earlier enclosures further south in the neighbouring civilization of Khorezm (Chorasmia, Khwarazm). Settlement layers with 7th/8th century pottery were found here under the base of the town wall, confirmed by radiocarbon dates for this trench ranging from (cal.) AD 674/799 to 906/1057. An earlier trench (P4) in the corresponding kink in the northern wall is briefly mentioned, but not documented, in a summary report by the Almaty and Pavlodar teams.
caption: Plan of Jankent by the Chorasmian Expedition (1963), with additional annotations showing elements of the town (I.A. Arzhantseva 2015)
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