Tepe Yahya

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Tepe Yahya is the modern name of an ancient city in southeastern Iran. Excavations were mainly from 1967 to 1975 by the American School of Prehistoric Research instead.

The settlement remains dating from the 5th to the end of the 2nd millennium BC. Another phase of settlement dating from about 1000 BC to 400 AD

In Tepe Yahya was since the 3rd millennium a quarry for chlorite. According to the latest excavations and findings in the more northerly sites Dschiroft and Shahr -e Investigated the deposit was part of a Bronze Age culture, which lay between the Indus Valley culture and Sumer. He was a center of high culture with numerous finds of Chloritgefäße that were found in the entire space between the Indus and the Tigris. This one had a link, a third high culture between the known centers of the 3rd millennium found.

Chloritgefäße have been exported to almost all neighboring countries to the Mediterranean coast and enjoyed great popularity there. The vessels were provided with in relief mythical creatures, scorpions, birds bizarre people. As in Dschiroft found one cylinder seal from Turkmenistan and Lothal, the port of the Indus Valley culture and stamps from Pakistan and Bahrain, which points out far-reaching trade relations. The Expert of the new excavations are based on an independent civilization, which presumably was still vorelamisch. Tepe Yahya belonged to the sphere of influence Dschirofts that pays for vorelamitischen culture. There were clay tablets with the Proto-Elamite script. The experts suggest that were here valuable goods, such as lapis lazuli, bronze, jewels and gold processed and transported by Sumer, where these raw materials did not occur.

Chloritgefäße

Vase from Tepe Giyan, since 2003 in the Louvre