Name
Lasūlkānلسولکان
Map
Historical Period
Iron Age
History and description
The graveyard of Lasūlkān lies on the southern flank of a hill southwest of the village of Nowruz Mahalleh, northeast of Deylamān. Following clandestine diggings in the area, the Japanese mission to Deylamān carried out two soundings at Lasūlkān. Two types of tombs were found at the graveyard. The first type is a "tumulus" type, also called a "dolmen" or a "megalithic tombs." It consists of graves that have their inner face constructed from blocks of stone, and their presence was marked with a circle of boulders on the surface; the graves were covered with a mass of boulders and pebbles. Most of the circles on the surface had disappeared by the time of the excavations. Tomb IV of this series revealed human skeletal remains and weapons of iron, which probably belonged to a secondary inhumation. The majority of the funerary objects at Lasūlkān consist of Gray Ware ceramic of inferior quality as compared to those found at Ghalekuti I and at Marlik.
Archaeological Exploration
Lasūlkān was explored by a Japanese team led by Shinji Fukai, Namio Egami, and Seichi Masuda on behalf of the University of Tokyo in 1964
Finds
Finds consist mainly of typical ceramic vessels of the Iron Age, baeds in stone, and rings and daggers in bronze.
Bibliography
Egami, N., Sh. Fukai and S. Masuda, Dailaman I, Excavations at Ghalekuti and Lasulkan 1960, Tokyo, 1965, pp. 22-23, pls. XX-XXIII, and LXXXIV-XC (for Lasūlkān ).
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