جیرفت کهن‌ترین تمدن شرق

by یوسف مجیدزاده

Limited to 1500 copies. From the A great abundance of archaeological evidence shows us that as early as the fourth millennium BC, there were continuous political, cultural and economic relations between the Sumerian city-states of Mesopotamia and polities to the east and southeast on the Iranian plateau. The cultural and the political dimension of these relations are articulated in the Mesopotamian cuneiform texts, in particular the Epic tale of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. The economic dimension of these long distance relations have been repeatedly demonstrated through the archaeological discoveries. Among these, stratified finds from sites in Iran and Mesopotamia indicate that there was a regular movement of lapis lazuli and other precious stone form east to west. While the lapis came in unworked chunks, vessels carved from a soft stone with elaborate designe arrived in Mesopotamian cities also arrived from the iranian Plateau. The most famous example of this type of vessel is the steatite vase found at the site of Khafajah in the Kiyala region of Mesopotamia. But, many others have also been found in Mesopotamian sites most often in temples of the middle of the third millennium B. C. Excavations in the 1960's at the site of Tepe Yahya to the southeast of Kerman produced evidence for the manufacture of this kind of steatite vessel.
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218 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2003