superficie tracce biancastre in corrispondenza dei colmi
dei muri, condusse subito alla conclusione che doveva
trattarsi di un imponente sito di epoca achemenide (VI-
IV sec. a.C.; Scerrato 1962), la cui importanza sarebbe
stata ben presto sottolineata non solo dal punto di vista
storico-archeologico (
Id.
1966
a
; 1970) ma anche da
quello storico-religioso (
Id.
1966
b
; Gnoli 1967).
I risultati delle prime due campagne di scavo a
Dāhān-e Ghūlāmān nel 1962 e 1963 furono pubblicati
solo in maniera preliminare (Scerrato 1966
b
). Nel 1962
si era dato inizio allo scavo dell’edificio monumentale
identificato come QN3, cui venne attribuita una
funzione di carattere religioso (Figg. 4, 5), e effettuati
alcuni saggi presso gli edifici QN4 e QN5, ritenuti
abitazioni private. Durante la successiva campagna del
1963 fu, quindi, intrapreso e portato a termine lo scavo
would, on the other, however, allowed the people to
have on-site power enormous reserves of water.
Returning to the archaeological activities in the area,
beginning in 1962, Umberto Scerrato began to focus
its attention along with other sites, especially with
Dāhān-e Ghūlāmān (Figs. 3, 8),
1
near the village of
Qal‘a-ye Now, already twice visited during the
previous campaigns of 1960 and 1961. The analysis
of the collected material on the surface and on which
some jobs have recently been addressed (Maresca
2008; 2010) and of the plans of the buildings,
detectable, in many cases, already before the
excavation, by virtue of salt efflorescence that left on
the surface whitish traces at the ridges of the walls,
immediately led to the conclusion that it must have
been an imposing site of Achaemenian time (6th-4th
century BC; Scerrato 1962), whose importance was
soon underlined not only from the archaeological
history’s point of view (
Id.
1966
a
; 1970) but also from
the historical-religious
Id.
1966
b
; Gnoli 1967).
The results of the first two excavation campaigns in
Dāhān-e Ghūlāmān in 1962 and 1963 were published
only in a preliminary form (Scerrato 1966
b
). In 1962
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Fig. 4. Edificio QN3, pianta assonometrica (Dep. IsMEO, 1410bis).
Fig. 4. Building QN3, assonometric plan (Dep. IsMEO, 1410bis).
Fig. 5. Edificio QN3, plastico.
Fig. 5. Building QN3, scale model.
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