Fashion Ware in Mes Aynak, Logar: Chronology and comparison (with an Appendix on a single specimen of tulip-bowl from Site MA-100) NOOR AGHA NOORI, LUCA M. OLIVIERI and ELISA IORI ABSTRACT This paper deals with the presence at Mes Aynak (Logar, Afghanistan) of a luxury ware, which is well known from various Bajaur sites, and stratigraphically well documented in Late Kushan/Kushano-Sasanian phases at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan). In the latter site this luxury ware represents a distinct chronological marker for the 3rd century CE phases, and, moreover, it is often associated to cultic contexts. The paper concludes with a note on a single finding of a tulip-bowl vessel at Mes Aynak (Site 100) which might have important implications on the chronology of the area’ s early occupation. KEYWORDS: Fashion Ware, Mes Aynak, Barikot, Bajaur, Kushano-Sasanians [tulip-bowls] While assessing the available data and items that could be confidently used to establish the chronological profile of the archaeological evidence at Mes Aynak, it has been said – with regards to pottery – that “le corpus de Mes Aynak est cependant, à quelques exceptions (près les tessons à décor estampé), toujours en cours d’étude [see Lerner 2018; MoMP/MoC n.d.], et il est par conséquent difficile, àl’heure actuelle, de s’appuyer sur les conclusions qui pourraient en être tirées”. 1 This is unfortunately true. This is why a new program of quantitative seriation of the pottery forms has been recently initiated at Mes Aynak by the Afghan Institute of Archaeology (AIA) within the framework of a broader initiative that counts with the technical support of UNESCO. A minor but significant find that recently came to light from the ongoing study, is anticipated in this article. The small corpus presented here does not claim to be complete (as some of the existing fragments Afghanistan 2.1 (2019): 91–114 Edinburgh University Press DOI: 10.3366/afg.2019.0027 © Edinburgh University Press www.euppublishing.com/afg 1 Bendezu-Sarmiento et al. 2017, 28.