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Location

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Līshtar
  • geo:30.437632,50.510471

Period or year

  • 2xx? / 13xx

Classification

  • vicus
  • Visible

Anonymous settlement – ancient Hir (?)

data access 85126

Sassanian (?) and medieval Islamic settlement (5 ha). Visible rectangular central tell (70x100m), previously surrounded by an eastern sharistan and smaller mounds, destroyed between 2002 and 2011. Medieval Emāmzādeh Šāh-ʿAbbās built on top of the main mound. Possible identification with the medieval town of Hir (Kitab al-masalik wa-I-mamalik of Eṣṭakhrī) / Habs (Fārsnāma of Ibn al-Balkhi), described as one the stage of the main road between Shiraz and Arrajan. 

LE STRANGE G. & NICHOLSON R.A. (1921), The Fars-nama of Ibn u’l Balkhi (text in persian) (https://archive.org/details/frsnmaofibnu00ibnauoft/mode/2up )

AL-ISTAKHRI (Xe s.), Masalik al-mamalik - Livre des Routes et des Royaumes, ed. DE GOEJE M. J. (1927), Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, Vol.1, 2ed (en pers.) (https://archive.org/details/india.history.resource.91285/mode/2up )

LE STRANGE Guy (1905), the lands of the eastern caliphate - from the Moslem Conquest to the time of Timur, Cambridge Press (https://archive.org/details/landsofeasternca00lest )

 

Nearby sites

  • Emāmzādeh Shāh-Abbās (G.10-08.II)
    Middle Islamic sanctuary (emāmzādeh), caracterized by its "beehive roof". Probably noticed by Stein (1940) and surveyed by Gaube (1968). Part of a larger ruined settlement.
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Līshtar
  • Unidentified site (cluster)
    Probable archaeological site. Cluster if three small mounds, visible on 2002 satellite imagery, of which only the north-eastern one remains, the other having been leveled by agriculture.
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Gonbaz
  • Unidentified site (cluster)
    Probable archaeological site. Cluster of three mounds, destroyed between 2002 and 2011, visible on older satellite imagery.
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Līshtar
  • Unidentified site
    Probable archaeological site. Cluster if three small mounds, visible on 2002 satellite imagery, of which only the southern one remains, the other having been leveled by agriculture.
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Līshtar

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Julien De Chocqueuse (2023-03-19) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/85126
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: De Chocqueuse, J. , Anonymous settlement – ancient Hir (?). https://vici.org/vici/85126, accessed 2026-11-12.