An Imperial Frontier and its Landscape: the Gorgan and Tammisheh Walls in North-East Iran
Roger Ainslie, Jebrael Nokandeh, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Eberhard Sauer, Tony Wilkinson, Chris Oatley, Mohammad Ershadi, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000163. How to cite using this DOI
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An Imperial Frontier and its Landscape: the Gorgan and Tammisheh Walls in North-East Iran
| Location | World region | Middle East | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non British Isles country | Iran | ||||||||||
| District | Golestan | ||||||||||
| Place | Wall of Tammishe | ||||||||||
| Place | Pishkamar | ||||||||||
| Place | Qizlar Qaleh | ||||||||||
| Place | Tamishe kilns | ||||||||||
| Place | Qaleh Kharabeh | ||||||||||
| Place | Bansaran Fort | ||||||||||
| Place | Tokhmagh Tappeh | ||||||||||
| Place | Dasht Qualeh | ||||||||||
| Place | Ghelich Ghoynech | ||||||||||
| Place | Daland | ||||||||||
| Place | Qaleh Gug | ||||||||||
| Place | Qaleh Daland | ||||||||||
| Place | Qareh Mohammed Tappeh | ||||||||||
| Place | Great Wall of Gorgan | ||||||||||
| TGN | World, Asia, Iran, Golestān, | ||||||||||
| Grid reference | Latitude longitude bounding box |
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| Subject | Event Type (England) | GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | Archaeology | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | Excavations (Archaeology)--Iran | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | WALL | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | EARTHWORK | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | FORTIFICATION | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | BRICK KILN | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | BOUNDARY WALL | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | BANK (EARTHWORK) | ||||||||||
| Monument Type (England) | DEFENCE | ||||||||||
| Period | MIDAS | Early Medieval | |||||||||
| Non-UK | Other | ||||||||||
| None | Parthian | ||||||||||
| None | Sassanid | ||||||||||
| Project dates | Created From | 16-JUN-2006 | |||||||||
| Created To | 18-JAN-2010 | ||||||||||
| First Released | 01-OCT-2014 | ||||||||||
| Last Modified | 18-JAN-2010 | ||||||||||
| Related information | Associated Publication | Nokandeh, J., Sauer, E.W., OmraniRekavandi, H., Wilkinson, T., Abbasi, G.A., Schwenninger, J.-L., Mahmoudi, M., Parker, D., Fattahi, M., Usher-Wilson, L.S., Ershadi, M., Ratcliffe, J. and Gale, R., 2006. ‘Linear Barriers of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe.’ Iran 44: 121-173. | |||||||||
| Associated Publication | Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E.W., Nokandeh, J. and Wilkinson, T., 2010. ‘At the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire: the Gorgan and Tammishe Walls in northern Iran’, in Matthiae, P., Pinnock, F., Nigro, L. and Marchetti, N., with Romano, L. (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 5 May – 10 May 2008, Wiesbaden: 599-611. | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E.W., Wilkinson, T. and Nokandeh, J., 2008. ‘The enigma of the ‘Red Snake’: Revealing one of the World’s Greatest Frontier Walls.’ Current World Archaeology 27: 12-22& cover page, cf. 5 | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E.W., Wilkinson, T., Safari Tamak, E., Ainslie, R., Mahmoudi, M., Griffiths, S., Ershadi, M., Jansen Van Rensburg, J., Fattahi, M., Ratcliffe, J., Nokandeh, J., Nazifi, A., Thomas, R., Gale, R. and Hoffmann, B., 2007. ‘An Imperial Frontier of the Sasanian Empire: further fieldwork at the Great Wall of Gorgan.’Iran 45: 95-136. | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | OmraniRekavandi, H., Sauer, E.W., Wilkinson, T., Abbasi, G.A., Ainslie, R., Ershadi, M., Fattahi, M., Galiatsatos, N., Jansen Van Rensburg, J., et al., 2011. ‘Shaping a Frontier Landscape: The Sasanian Army on the Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe, in Archaelogical Reports (7). On The Occasion Of The 9th Annual Symposium on Iranian Archaeology (4th Volume), Shiraz: 39-64. | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | OmraniRekavandi, H., Sauer, E.W., Wilkinson, T., Abbasi, G.A., Priestman, S., Safari Tamak, E., Ainslie, R., Mahmoudi, M., Galiatsatos, et al., 2008. ‘Sasanian Walls, Hinterland Fortresses and Abandoned Ancient Irrigated Landscapes: the 2007 Season on the Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe.’ Iran 46: 151-178. | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | Sauer, E.W., OmraniRekavandi, H., Nokandeh, J. and Wilkinson, T., 2009. ‘Die sasanidischen Grenzwälle im Nord-Iran’, in Nunn, A. (ed.), Mauern als Grenzen, Mainz: 126-143, 212-215. | ||||||||||
| Associated Publication | Sauer, E.W., OmraniRekavandi, H., Wilkinson, T.J., Nokandeh, J., Hopper, K., Abbasi, G.A., Ainslie, R. et al. 2012, for 2013. Persia’s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: the Great Wall of Gorgān and Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran. British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series II, Oxford: Oxbow Books. | ||||||||||
| Data types available | Geophysics | 22 objects | |||||||||
| Image | 113 objects | ||||||||||
| Text | 6 objects |
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