Geoy Tepe

37.518055555556 45.145277777778Coordinates: 37 ° 31 '5 " N , 45 ° 8' 43" E

Geoy Tepe

Geoy Tepe is an archaeological excavation site in northwestern Iran , with an area of around 0.03 km ² , which lies between the city of Urmia and the western shore of Lake Urmia on the main road 11. It was discovered by Erich Schmidt in aerial photographs of historical sites in the Persian Empire in the 1930s. The excavation area is near a natural spring . Theodore Burton Brown from Great Britain carried out excavations in Geoy Tepe from August 1948. However, due to modern development, only part of the excavation area is accessible. The stratigraphic division into layers from A to M shows that the area was from the 4th century BC. BC to 1200 BC Was continuously inhabited. In the C-layer (dated 1600–1450 BC) was u. a. found a necklace with blue glass beads made of smalt .

Remains of the early Kura Araxes culture have been found in Geoy Tepe .

Web links

Geoy Tepe . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Stuart J. Fleming, Leigh-Ann Bedal, Charles P. Swann: Glassmaking at Geoy Tepe (Azerbaijan) during the eariy 2nd millennium BC: a study of blue colors using PIXE spectrometry . In: Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archeology (Ed.): Proceedings CAA Conference . 1993, chap. 28 , p. 199–204 (English, online [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on September 9, 2018]).

[Fleming_1993-1] A ^b Stuart J. Fleming, Leigh-Ann Bedal, Charles P. Swann: Glassmaking at Geoy Tepe (Azerbaijan) during the eariy 2nd millennium BC: a study of blue colors using PIXE spectrometry . In: Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archeology (Ed.): Proceedings CAA Conference . 1993, chap. 28 , p. 199–204 (English, online [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on September 9, 2018]).