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Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shūsh
  • geo:32.188938,48.248371
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -3500~ / 6xx

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Susa (Elamitic, Babylonian: Šušim; Greek τὰ Σοῦσα): capital of Elam, favorite residence of the Persian king Darius I the Great.

  1. R. Boucharlat, "Susa under Achaemenid Rule" in: John Curtis (ed.) Mesopotamia and Iran in the Persian Period: Conquest and Imperialism 559-331 BC (1997 London) 54-67.
  2. Gil J. Stein,  Alternative Pathways to Incipient Social Complexityin Mesopotamia and Iran in the 6 th  -5 th  millennia BCE, Proceedings of the International Congress of Young Archaeologists, 2015, Vol. 3. Iranology Foundation: Tehran, 2018, pp. 19-43

Susa, capital of Elam


Relevant museums

Susa, Archaeological Museum

Susa, Archaeological Museum

Tehran, National Museumof Iran

Tehran, National Museum Archaeological collections from Paleolithic to Qajar period

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Stele of Meli-Šipak with Šutruk-Naḫḫunte Colophon

War trophy of Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte I. Stela of Meli-Šipak/Melisipak.

Hunnubat-Nanaya Kudurru

Kassites Kudurru boundary stone discovered at Susa.Louvre.


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