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Surroundings:

Tepe Sialk, Beak-spouted painted pot Tepe Sialk, General viewTepe Sialk, Sherd from a chalcolithic potTepe Sialk, Summit of the zigguratTepe Sialk, General viewTepe Sialk, Chalcolithic jar with animal decorationTepe Sialk, Beak-spouted painted pot Tepe Sialk, General viewTepe Sialk, PanoramaTepe Sialk, SoundingTepe Sialk, Panorama (part 1)Tepe Sialk, HousesTepe Sialk, Panorama (part 2)Tepe Sialk, Chalcolithic beakerTepe Sialk, Panorama (part 3)Tepe Sialk, Iron Age beakerTepe Sialk, Panorama (part 4)Tepe Sialk, Chalcolithic cupTepe Sialk, Iron Age beakertepe Sialk, Little pieces of ironTepe Sialk, HousesTepe Sialk, Beak-spouted painted pot Tepe Sialk, StratigraphyTepe Sialk, Chalcolithic jar with animal decorationTepe Sialk, Modern artKashan, Monument for the excavation of Tepe SialkJalali castle

Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Nājīābād
  • geo:33.974152,51.407589
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6000~ / -750~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Tepe Sialk settlement in central Peria [Iran] dates back to sixth millenium BC .  Both of the mounds of Sialk settlement were excavated by a French expedition directed by Roman Ghirshman between 1933 and 1937.

See:

  1. Contenau Georges. Les fouilles de Sialk en Iran [R. Ghirshman. Fouilles de Sialk près de Kashan, 1933, 1934, 1937 (Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales, Série archéologique. T. IV et V)]. In: Journal des savants, Avril-juin 1941. pp. 64-75.
  2. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Hassan Fazeli: Tepe Sialk (Iran), seasons 2008-2009,  Bioarchaeology of the Near East 4 (2010) , pp. 69–73

Fourth-millennium city


Relevant museums

Tehran, National Museumof Iran

Tehran, National Museum Archaeological collections from Paleolithic to Qajar period

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Tepe Sialk

3rd-millennium BC city

Kashan, Monument for the excavation of Tepe Sialk (1 km)

Kashan, Monument for the excavation of Tepe Sialk


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