Tepe Qahremānlū Northتپه قهرمانلو شمالی
Location: Situated north of Urmia, in northwestern Iran, West Azerbaijan Province.
37°39’47.1″N 45°10’45.8″E
Map
Historical Period
Iron Age, Islamic
History and description
Tepe Qahremānlū is located 1.5 km north of the village of Qahremānlū, and 15 km north of Urmia in the swampy plains near the Bezū Dag mountain. The mound has a roughly circular shape with a flat top, covering approximately 3 hectares. It measures 180 m x 180 m with a height of 5 m above the surrounding plain. Surface potsherds suggest a date ranging from the Iron Age and Islamic periods.
Archaeological Exploration
Tepe Qahremānlū North was first reported by Wolfram Kleiss of the German Archaeological Institute in 1974-75. The mound was recorded 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. 152.
