Qalaichi

Qalaichi
سه گردان، قلایچی ، قلایه چی Ghalay-chi
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Location	Bukan, Iran
Region	West Azerbaijan province
Coordinates	36°34′13″N 46°16′31″E / 36.57028°N 46.27528°E
Type	settlement
Length	93m
Width	102m
Height	1507m
History
Material	stone, mud brick, baked brick
Founded	9th-7th century BCE
Abandoned	?
Periods	Mannean
Cultures	Iron Age II and III
Associated with	0
Site notes
Excavation dates	1985, 1999-2006
Archaeologists	E. Yaghmaei, B.Kargar
Condition	plundered, later excavated
Ownership	public
Public access	accessible

Qalaichi, Ghalay-chi, قلایچی in Persian (UTM 38S 615552 m E 4046795 m N) is an important archaeological site for the Iron Age of north-western Iran. It is a mountain 11m high, situated about 9 air km north-west of Bukan City in West Azerbaijan Province 18 km away from the border of Kurdistan province. The site is located near a village from whence it got its name. Hills and mountains surround it; the highest one in the east is the so-called Kal-Tage. Qalaichi is a settlement town in as we know from cuneiform texts which lay in the polity Mannea. The main period of occupation lies from the 9th to 7th centuries BCE. Key archaeological finds include a stele inscribed with an Aramaic text^[1] In addition, the ancient settlement yielded a large number of glazed objects. Some of them are monochrome and the others show complex compositions.^[2] The glazed objects from the regular excavations curated in Urmia Museum and Tehran National Museum.

References

^ M. A. Lemaire, L'inscription araméenne de Bukân et son intérêt historique, in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Année, vol.142,1998: 293-300; E. Yaghmaei, Discovery of a three thousand years old temple at Bukan, Keyhan Newspaper, Thursday, 11 March 1985, 9 (in Persian).
^ B. Kargar, Qalaychi/Izirtu: a Mannean center, Period Ib, in M. Azarnoush (ed.), Proceedings of International Symposium on Iranian Archaeology: North-western Region, Tehran, 2004, 229–45(in Persian).

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Mannaean glazed bricks from Bukan

Mannaean glazed bricks from Bukan

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[1] M. A. Lemaire, L'inscription araméenne de Bukân et son intérêt historique, in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Année, vol.142,1998: 293-300; E. Yaghmaei, Discovery of a three thousand years old temple at Bukan, Keyhan Newspaper, Thursday, 11 March 1985, 9 (in Persian).

[2] B. Kargar, Qalaychi/Izirtu: a Mannean center, Period Ib, in M. Azarnoush (ed.), Proceedings of International Symposium on Iranian Archaeology: North-western Region, Tehran, 2004, 229–45(in Persian).

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