Overview

This book represents the final report on the field work carried out in 2008 and 2009 by the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission at the archaeological site of Persepolis West, where parts of the town adjacent to the well-known Achaemenid monumental terrace of Persepolis have been located. The eleven trial trenches excavated in areas indicated by the results of Iranian and Iranian-French geophysical surveys represent the first stratigraphic excavations ever carried out on this site, the dating of which is supported by a rich series of radiocarbon datings. Illustration of the excavations is preceded by an accurate geophysical study of the topographical context and accompanied by a detailed and richly illustrated analysis of pottery and other finds: the safe stratigraphic context makes these finds a particularly important source of evidence for our knowledge of the ceramics of Fars during the historic pre-Islamic age. The excavations largely confirm the location of the built-up area of Parsa indicated by geophysical surveys.

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Author:   Pierfrancesco Callieri ,  Alireza Askari Chaverdi
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   1.236kg
ISBN:  

9781407316086

ISBN 10:   1407316087
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   31 October 2017
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Table of Contents

Lists of illustrations Abstract Prefaces Introduction (Alireza Askari Chaverdi and Pierfrancesco Callieri) 1 Geophysical surveys over Persepolis Northwest area: an overview 1.1 Report on the geomagnetic surveys in Areas B-E (Babak Aminpour) 1.2 Reports on magnetic and electromagnetic surveys over Persepolis West (Sébastien Gondet and Kourosh Mohammadkhani) 2 Excavations at Persepolis West 2008-2009: an overview (Alireza Askari Chaverdi and Pierfrancesco Callieri) 2.1 Area A: Trench Tr. 1 (Alan Mercuriali and Mousa Zare') Trench Tr. 2 (Elisa Iori) Trench Tr. 3 (Ali Asadi and Marco Galuppi) Trench Tr. 5 (Abazar Shobeiri) 2.2 Area B: Trench Tr. 4 (Alan Mercuriali) Trench Tr. 6 (Luca Colliva) 2.3 Area C: Trench Tr. 7 (Luca Colliva) Trench Tr. 8 (Elisa Iori and Hamid Karami) 2.4 Area D: Trench Tr. 9 (Nabil Ibnoerrida and Abazar Shobeiri) Trench Tr. 10 (Elisa Iori and Hamid Karami) 2.5 Area E: Trench Tr. 11 (Nabil Ibnoerrida) 3 Archaeological studies on finds 3.1 Ceramics: Methodology used in the ceramic study (Martina Battisti) Physical features. Quantitative study of the ceramic fragments from Areas A and B (Elisa Iori) Physical features. Quantitative study of the ceramic fragments from Areas C-E (Nabil Ibnoerrida) Diagnostic ceramics (Martina Battisti) Tables and plates: Trench Tr. 4 (Martina Battisti and Somayeh Khoshbakht) Tables and plates: Trench Tr. 6 (Martina Battisti and Somayeh Khoshbakht) 3.2 Other finds: inventoried objects (Luca Colliva and Emad Matin; drawings by Somayeh Khoshbakht and Davide M. Meucci) Weapons Ornaments Inserts for decoration Architectural stone elements Stone vessels Coins Ceramics Glass vessels Bricks Games Tools and implements of various functions Artefacts of uncertain function 4 Radiometric datings (Filippo Terrasi, Isabella Passariello, Fabio Marzaioli and Manuela Capano) Conclusions (Alireza Askari Chaverdi and Pierfrancesco Callieri) Bibliography

Reviews

'At a fundamental level, this is one of the most important publications on the archaeology of the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire of Iran to appear in the last 50 years.' Dr Cameron Petrie, Trinity College, Cambridge 'The methodology sections on ceramics and C14 analysis are very detailed and exact. . [The excavations provide] a series of glimpses into the gardens and possibly built landscape surrounding Dur Parsa that is not found in such detail anywhere else. This book makes a vital contribution to the collection of knowledge on Persepolis.' Dr Tobin Hartnell, The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani

Author Information

Alireza Askari Chaverdi, the Iranian director of the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, Shiraz University, and Vice-Chancellor of the Shiraz University of Arts, Iran. He has carried out several excavations in Fars, focusing on the pre-Islamic historic periods, from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian period. Pierfrancesco Callieri, the Italian director of the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission, is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, Italy. From 1977 to 2000 he worked in the Swat Valley (Northern Pakistan). In 2005 he started field work in Iran, focusing on the pre-Islamic historic periods in Fars. Contributors: Babak Aminpour, Ali Asadi, Martina Battisti, Manuela Capano, Luca Colliva, Marco Galuppi, Sébastien Gondet, Nabil Ibnoerrida, Elisa Iori, Hamid Karami, Somayeh Khoshbakht, Fabio Marzaioli, Emad Matin, Alan Mercuriali, Kourosh Mohammadkhani, Isabella Passariello, Abazar Shobeiri, Filippo Terrasi, Mousa Zare

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