Kalaly-gyr
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 3 ″ N , 59 ° 32 ′ 10 ″ E
Kalaly-gyr (also Kalalygyr or Kalaligir ) is an archaeological excavation site in Khorezmia in present-day Turkmenistan . It is located about 70 kilometers west of Amu Darya on the edge of the agricultural zone.
During excavations between 1953 and 1958, a large palace building from the Achaemenid period could be examined. The palace covered about 10,500 m² and was 75 × 89 m in size. The main building material was rammed earth. There were several courtyards, with most of the rooms in the complex being arranged around two inner courtyards. There were several porticos. The columns resting on stone bases, and had at least partly with capitals Protome in the form of Adler grab . The entire building and possibly an associated city were surrounded by a strong wall, but little of it has been excavated.
It is probably the palace of a Persian governor (although the interpretation as a cult building has also been suggested). The building dates back to the turn of the fifth to the fourth century BC. The palace was never completed. The excavator Jurij A. Rapoport suspects that the palace is connected to the establishment of a Persian satrapy of Choresmia and was abandoned when Khorezmia left the Persian Empire or was lost to the Persian Empire.
literature
- Boris J. Stawiskij: The people of Central Asia in the light of their art monuments , Bonn 1982, pp. 20–23 ISBN 3-921591-23-6