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Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Rūstā-ye Arjān
  • geo:30.665243,50.274906
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -630 / -550

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=63786

Annotations

The Arjan Tomb is the late Neo-Elamite elite burial used ca. 630-550 BC.

Sources:

  1. ARJĀN TOMBi n: Encyclopaedia Iranica http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arjan-tomb
  2. Javier Álvarez-Mon, “Imago Mundi: Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Arjān Bowl,” Iranica Antiqua 39, 2004, pp. 203-37. 
  3. idem: The Arjān Tomb: at the Crossroads between the Elamite and the Persian Empires. Acta Iranica Series 49, Leuven. 2010a (originally the author’s Ph.D. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2006. 

Nearby

Arrajan (1 km)

Elamite, sasanian and medieval city of Arrajan. Also known as Arjan and Argan. Extensive archaeological site (3,75 km²). Abandonned in the 14th cent.

Unidentified site (2 km)

Probable settlement. Located with satellite imagery.

Unidentified site (2 km)

Probable settlement. Located with satellite imagery.


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