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Part 7Pottery from Ancient Tombs of the Dailaman District, Iranby
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Pottery from Ancient Tombs in the Dailaman District. Iran
Yoshihiro Nishiaki
The University Museum.
The University of Tokyo

This volume. Part 7 of the series of the Department of West Asian Archaeology Collection
Catalogues. features ancient pottery excavated by the Tokyo University Iraq-Iran1\rchaeological Expedition in the Dailaman district. northwest Iran (Fig. l). The excavations.
carried out in 1960 and 1964 under the direction of Professor Namio Egami. led to the discov­
ery of dozens of late prehistoric to early historic tombs and other features at six archaeologi­
cal sites: Ghalekuti I. II. Hassani Mahale. Lasulkan. Noruz Mahale. and Khoramrud (Fig. 2).
These tombs and features. particularly the tombs yielded an abundant collection of archaeo­
logical objects. part of which are currently stored at the University of Tokyo thanks to thegenerous arrangement made by the then Iranian authorities. The present catalogue comprises
a selection of complete and nearly complete pottery from this collection. These pottery speci­
mens represent the Late Bronze Age to the Parthian Period. thereby providing a unique
opportunity to investigate changes in the mortuary practices. the ceramic chronology, theevolution of the social complexity and other aspects over this time period: all of these arc
insufficiently understood in the northwestern part of Iran. We hope that this catalogue stimu­
lates new research contributing to such aspects.

The original descriptions of the excavations and finds. including pottery and the associatedhuman remains. are available in the following publications:
Egami. N. ( I 96:{) Dailaman I: The Excavations at Ghalekuti and Lasulkan in 1960.
Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture. The University of Tokyo.
Egami. N. and ]. Ikeda (1963) Anthropological Studies of West Asia 1: Human Remains
from the Tombs in Dailamanistan, Northern Iran, Vol. 1. Tokyo: The Institute ofOriental Culture. The University of Tokyo.
Egami. N .. S. Fukai and S. Masuda ( 1966) Dailaman II: The Excavations at Noruzmahale
and Khoramrud, 1960. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture. The University ofTokyo.
Sono. T. and S. Fukai ( 1968) Dailaman III: The Excavations at Hassani Mahale andGhalekuti, 1964. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture. The University of Tokyo.

Ikeda. ]. ( 1968) Anthropological Studies of West Asia 2: Human Remains from the Tombsin Dailaman, Northern Iran, Vol. 2. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture, The-7-

University of Tokyo.
Fukai. S. and J. Ikeda 0971) Dailaman IV: The Excavations at Ghalekuti II & I, 1964.
Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture. The University of Tokyo.

The chronological position of the tombs and features that produced the pottery documented
here is summarized in Fig. 3. It is a chronology based on more recent work. in which the orig­
inal reports were reviewed. For details. see the following.
Hori. A. 0981) Dailaman and Halimehjan - Re-examinations of their Chronology Bulletin of the Ancient Orient Museum ill. pp. 43-62.

Tani-ichi. T. (1997) Reconsideration of the chronology of the tombs from Hassani Mahaleand Ghalekuti. In Expedition of Mind. edited by Y. Nishiaki. pp. 150-156. Tokyo: The
C'niversity of Tokyo Press (in Japanese).
Arimatsu. Y. (2005) Ceramic chronology of the Iron Age to the Parthian Period in theDailaman district. Iran. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society
for West Asian Archaeology. pp. 34-38. Tokyo: The Museum of Horses and Horse

Racing (in Japanese).

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