Name
Tepe Mohammadābād تپه محمد آباد
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Historical Period
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Sasanian/Islamic
History and description
Tepe Mohammadābād is a sizeable, roughly circular mound, 25 m high (fig. 1). Its eastern slope has been cut at different places revealing archaeological layers (fig. 2).
Fig. 1. Tepe Mohammadābād from the east (photo; A. Mousavi)
Fig. 2. Tepe Mohammadābād. Close-up of the eastern slope (photo: A. Mousavi)
Archaeological Exploration
Tepe Mohammadabad was first recorded in Wolfram Kleiss' surveys of the Tehran-Qazvin region on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute in the 1970s and 1980s. The site was re-visited by Ali Mousavi in his survey on behalf of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research in 2002. Based on the surface pottery, Tepe Mohammadabad is a promising site for archaeological exploration because it contains layers from both the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age periods.
Bibliography
Kleiss, W., “Eisenzeitlich Siedlungen im Raum Tehran-Qom-Qazvin,” Cinquente-deux reflexions sur le Proche-Orient ancien offerts en hommage à Léon de Meyer, H. Gasche, M. Tanret, C. Janssen, and A. Degraeve (eds.), Leuven, 1994, fog. 3 (for Tepe Mohammadabad).
Mousavi, A., “Comments on the Early Iron Age in Iran,” Iranica Antiqua, vol. 40, 2005, p. 98 (for Tepe Mohammadabad).
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