Teppe Hasanlu

Teppe Hasanlu or "Tappeh Hassanlu" (Persian: تپه حسنلو) is an archeological site of an ancient Mannaean city"The Cambridge History of Iran" (ed. by W.B. Fischer, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yarshster). Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0521200911. Pages 57-58, 138.] which was destroyed by Urartu in the late 9th century BC. The site is located in the province of West Azarbaijan, in northwest Iran, a short distance southwest of Lake Urmia.

Hasanlu Tepe is the largest site in the Qadar River valley and dominates the small plain known as Solduz. The site consists of a 25m high central "citadel" mound, with massive fortifications and paved streets, surrounded by a low outer town, 8m above the surrounding plain. The entire site, once much larger but reduced in size by local agricultural and building activities, now measures about 600m across, with the citadel having a diameter of about 200 m.

The site is thought to have been inhabited in several stages, the oldest starting from the 6th millennium BCE. It is famous for the "Golden Vase" found by a team from the University of Pennsylvania led by Robert Dyson, in 1958.

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