Konar Sandal

Konar Sandal

Konar Sandal is a Bronze Age archaeological site, situated just south of Jiroft, Kermān Province, Iran.

It consists of two mounds a few kilometers apart, called Konar Sandal A and B with a height of 13 and 21 meters, respectively. At Konar Sandal B, a two-story, windowed citadel with a base of close to 13.5 hectares was found.

The site is associated with the hypothesized "Jiroft culture", a 3rd millennium BC culture postulated on the basis of a collection of artifacts confiscated in 2001.

The proposition of identifying the site as an "independent Bronze Age civilization with its own architecture and language" is due to Yousef Majidzadeh, head of the archaeological excavation team in Jiroft since. Majidzadeh speculates they may be the remains of the lost Aratta Kingdom. Other conjectures (eg. Daniel T. Potts, Piotr Steinkeller) have connected the site with the obscure city-state of Marhashi. Majidzadeh's conclusions have met with skepticism from reviewers.

Muscarella (2004) notes that as of August 2004, no excavated artifacts have been reported from Madjidzadeh's excavation that relate or can be compared to the dissimilar, unexcavated objects confiscated in 2001 and published by Majidzadeh in his 2003 Catalogue.

References

O. W. Muscarella, Jiroft and “Jiroft-Aratta” A Review Article of Yousef Madjidzadeh, Jiroft: The Earliest Oriental Civilization (2004)

ee also

*Shahr-i Sokhta
*Halil River
*Aratta
*Marhasi

External links

* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200405/what.was.jiroft..htm saudiaramcoworld.com: What Was Jiroft?] (2004)

* [http://www.konarsandal.com KONAR SANDAL TELECOM is the name of a major Mobile Phone Comapny in Iran]


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