Susa, capital of Elam
Locatie:
- Iran, Shūsh
- geo:32.188938,48.248371
- Locatie ± 5-25 m.
Period or year:
- -3500~ / 6xx
Classificatie:
- Stad
- Zichtbaar
Identifiers:
- vici:place=11393
- pleiades:place=912936
- livius:place=susa
- wikidata:entity=Q180773
Annotaties
Susa (Elamitic, Babylonian: Šušim; Greek τὰ Σοῦσα): capital of Elam, favorite residence of the Persian king Darius I the Great.
- 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.
- 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
Relevante musea
Susa, Archaeological Museum
Susa, Archaeological Museum
Tehran, National Museum
Tehran, National Museum
Paris, Louvre
Paris, Louvre
London, The British Museum
The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
In de buurt
Stele of Meli-Shipak
War trophy of Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte I.
Hunnubat-Nanaya Kudurru
Kassites Kudurru boundary stone dicovered at Susa.