Teppe Hasanlu

 archaeological site, tell (mound)

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www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hasanlu-teppe
Teppe Hasanlu or Tappeh Hassanlu (Persian: تپه حسنلو) is ancient Mannaean city that was destroyed by Urartu in the late 9th century BC.
Hasanlu Tepe consists of a 25m high central "citadel" mound, with massive fortifications and paved streets, surrounded by a low outer town, 8m above the surrounding plain. The entire site, once much larger but reduced in size by local agricultural and building activities, now measures about 600m across, with the citadel having a diameter of about 200 m
The site is thought to have been inhabited in several stages, the oldest starting from the 6th millennium BCE. It is famous for the Golden Vase found by a team from the University of Pennsylvania led by Robert Dyson, in 1958.


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