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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shahrak-e Valī-ye ‘Aşr
  • geo:29.914383,52.885559
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21296

Annotations

Tall-e Bakun is located in the fertile plain of Marv Dasht, near Persepolis. It  consists of two mounds, differentiated as Bakun A and Bakun B.

Tall e Bakun A  was a settlement inhabited from ca sixth to fourth millenium BC. It was centre of craftmanship and trade. The northern part was an administrative quarter with warehouses 1, what prooved findings of the clay seals. The central and southern quarters seemd to be an industrial zone - worksop areas what suggest kilns of various size covered with ashes and debris and findings of  different tools and unfinished material goods2.

 

 

Sources:

  1. Erich F. Schmidt, Tol-e-Bakun: Prehistoric Mound near Persepolis, University of Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, 1939,  vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 27-28
  2. Abbas Alizadeh, Abbas Alizadeh, The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun, Oriental Institute Publication 128, 2006 - http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/oip128.pdf
  3. Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), pp. 17-34

References

  1. Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), pp. 20nn
  2. Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), p. 23


Relevant museums

Tehran, National Museumof Iran

Tehran, National Museum Archaeological collections from Paleolithic to Qajar period

Tehran, Glassware Museum

Collection of ceramics and glass, including ancient pottery.

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Allard Pierson Museum

Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

The national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden

The British Museum

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

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Nearby

Tall-i Bakun B

Tall-e Bakun B

Persepolis, Stone Pool (1 km)

Water reservoir

Persepolis, Unfinished Tomb (1 km)

Tomb of Darius III Codomannus?


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