Excavations at Konar Sandal in the Region of Jiroft in the Halil Basin: First Preliminary Report (2002–2008)

Madjidzadeh, Youssef; Pittman, Holly

doi:10.1080/05786967.2008.11864738

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“…One of the most intriguing discoveries in city seal research comes from a site in southeast Iran, Konar Sandal South (Madjidzadeh and Pittman 2008, fig. 32e).…”

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Cultic resilience and inter-city engagement at the dawn of urban history: protohistoric Mesopotamia and the ‘city seals’, 3200–2750 BC

Matthews

Richardson

2018

World Archaeology

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Within the context of early urbanism, elite groups developed the world's earliest writing in Mesopotamia, 3200-2750 BC, comprising administrative documents in the form of inscribed clay tablets. How did these proto-literate urban communities engage with each other and what strategies did they employ to address major challenges to their survival? The 'city seal' evidence survives as seal impressions on clay bureaucratic artefacts, both inscribed tablets and impressed sealings. These impressions feature signs representing the names of Mesopotamian cities, many of them identifiable with known sites. The documents stand at the threshold of history, as the earliest evidence for inter-city engagement. Using an innovative methodology and interpretive framework of cultic resilience, the authors integrate archaeometric, iconographic and functional analyses of the earliest stages of writing and sealing, to argue that the city seal evidence provides unique insights into inter-city cooperation by Mesopotamian cities during a critical episode of early urban development.

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“…One of the most intriguing discoveries in city seal research comes from a site in southeast Iran, Konar Sandal South (Madjidzadeh and Pittman 2008, fig. 32e).…”

Section: Konar Sandal Southmentioning

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“…Konar Sandal South city seal impression, KSS2008XJV002, with tentative city name readings (afterMadjidzadeh and Pittman [2008, fig. 32e], with authors' additions).…”

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Cultic resilience and inter-city engagement at the dawn of urban history: protohistoric Mesopotamia and the ‘city seals’, 3200–2750 BC

Matthews

Richardson

2018

World Archaeology

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“…The Aliabad settlements in Bam include sites with ceramic kilns and misfired fragments. The Bronze Age, then, saw a sharp decrease in occupation, characterised by sparse third-millennium BC material; Bronze Age Bam so far lacks the typical, fine mineral-tempered, painted ceramics and chlorite objects, as well as the high site density and large settlements that characterise the Halil Rud Valley (approximately 90km to the south-west) during this period (Madjidzadeh & Pittman 2008). Finally, we observed few sites with Iron Age/early historical materials, although sites with ceramics relating to the Iron Age through to the Parthian period (c. first millennium BC to 224 AD) are present south of Bam city (Adle 2006: 45-46; Figure 1: west of Baravat).…”

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Bam Archaeological Mission: a new archaeological research programme in Kerman Province, Iran

Mutin

Garazhian

2018

Antiquity

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“…Although various marble stones found in Jiroft have been studied by Yousef Majidzade in terms of typology and physical appearance, little attention has been paid to the internal structure of the stones [2].…”

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“…In addition, northwestern and southeastern sides of the region include lime marl veins and lime stones. In southern parts of Jiroft basin, at the intersection with Jazmourian, there is a huge mass of flysch sediments [2,3] (Figs. 4 and 5).…”

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Petro Logical Chemical Investigations for Characterization of Marble Stones Discovered Konar-Sandal (Jiroft-Iran)

Parvin¹,

Emami²

2015

JEASE

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Jiroft region is one of the most historical cities, placed in the southeastern of Iranian plateau. Its history dates back to the second millennium B.C. The ancient history of Jiroft and its proximity to the River of Halil Roud have attracted archeologists during the recent decades. So far various historical works have been unearthed from the region of which marble ones are especially noteworthy. Basically, marble works were used more commonly in central plateau of Iran than other ones. The marble works discovered in Jiroft region are only comparable with those from the recently excavation at Shahr-I Sokhta in Zabol. The scientific examination of such works may pave way to identify their internal structures and to compare them in terms of their provenance. The present study will focus on the characterization of marbles discovered in Konar Sandal, Jiroft. In addition to petro graphical studies, XRD and XRF investigations were used to identify the crystalline structures as well as balk chemical composition of the discovered marbles. The obtained results revealed that the major constituents of the discovered marbles in Jiroft were Ca and CaO. The structure of discovered marbles had orderly compact patterns resulted mainly from metamorphism conditions. This structure is actually Unsimilar to those from Shahr-I Sokhta.

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Excavations at Konar Sandal in the Region of Jiroft in the Halil Basin: First Preliminary Report (2002–2008)

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Cultic resilience and inter-city engagement at the dawn of urban history: protohistoric Mesopotamia and the ‘city seals’, 3200–2750 BC

Cultic resilience and inter-city engagement at the dawn of urban history: protohistoric Mesopotamia and the ‘city seals’, 3200–2750 BC

Bam Archaeological Mission: a new archaeological research programme in Kerman Province, Iran

Petro Logical Chemical Investigations for Characterization of Marble Stones Discovered Konar-Sandal (Jiroft-Iran)

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