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Nishapur Revisited - Stratigraphy and Ceramics of the Qohandez (Hardcover)
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Nishapur Revisited - Stratigraphy and Ceramics of the Qohandez (Hardcover)
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Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its
position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and
India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations
there are many unresolved questions surrounding the site; when was
the city founded? Is Nishapur a Sasanian city? Was it founded by
the Sasanian king Shapur I or II? The question of chronology of
occupation and the ceramic sequence is also problematic
particularly for late antiquity and the medieval period, as well as
a complete topography of the site. The Irano-French archaeological
mission at Nishapur (2004 to 2007) (CNRS-MAEE-Musee du Louvre)
focused on the Qohandez, or citadel, the oldest part of Nishapur.
Excavations were conducted in different areas of the mound, in
order to address these questions. After an introduction to the site
and the former American and Iranian excavations, this book presents
the stratigraphy and the pottery of the site. The difficulties
involved in establishing a precise history of the site, as well as
the complexities of studying the pottery led to a program of
analysis undertaken by the Research Centre of French Museums
(C2RMF). Chemical and petrographic analysis, thermoluminescence
(TL) dating and archaeomagnetism analysis as support to the TL
results were done. A pottery database has been created regrouping
the stratigraphical and laboratory analyses data, in order to
manage and present an organised corpus of 1000 samples. The
combination of the data from the stratigraphical and laboratory
analyses gives an accurate and completely new chronology of the
site. Moreover, the study also brought to light a new typological
sequence of the ceramic, as well as new data about the pottery
production at Nishapur.
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