Name
Tepe Anganeh تپه انگنه
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Historical Period
Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Islamic
History and description
Tepe Anganeh is a large, circular mound, 235 x 200 x 13 m, 25 km north/northeast of Urmia. The mound lies just outside the village of Anganeh. Given the proximity of the site to the original shore of Lake Urmia, which was only 2 km to the west, the salt water reached the base of the mound during the winter and rainy seasons. Deposits of salt are still visible near the base of the mound. Based on the mound’s surface ceramics, Anganeh has a long archaeological sequence from the fourth to the first millennia B.C. with a considerable gap between the end of the Iron Age and the Islamic period.
Archaeological Exploration
Tepe Anganeh was discovered during an archaeological survey in northwestern Iran by an Italian team under the direction of Paolo Emilio Pecorella on behalf of the Institute of Mycenaean and Aegean-Anatolian Studies (now the Institute of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies), Italy’s National Research Council (CNR), in 1976.
Bibliography
Pecorella, P. E. and M. Salvini, Tra lo Zagros e l’Urmia. Ricerche Storiche ed Archologiche Nell’Azerbaigian Iraniano, Rome, 1984, p. 146.
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