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{{Infobox World Heritage Site| WHS = Chogha Zanbil| Image =
image:Choghazanbil2.jpg| State Party = Iran| Type = Cultural| Criteria = iii, iv| ID = 113| Region =
List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia| Year = 1979| Session = 3rd| Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/113-->
image:Choghazanbil-model.jpgChogha Zanbil (
Persian language: چُغازَنبیل) is an ancient
Elam complex in the
Khuzestan province of Iran.It is one of the few extant
ziggurats outside of
Mesopotamia. It lies approximately 25 kilometeres west Dezfoul, 45 kilometres south of Susa and 230 kilometres north of Abadan by way of
Ahvaz, which is 120 kilometres away.
It was built about 1250 BCE by the king
Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honour the great god Inshushinak. Its original name was
Dur Untash, which means 'town of Untash', but it is unlikely that many people, besides priests and servants, ever lived there. The complex is protected by three concentric walls which define the main areas of the 'town'. The inner area is wholly taken up with a great ziggurat dedicated to the main god, which was built over an earlier square temple with storage rooms also built by Untash-Napirisha. The middle area holds eleven temples for lesser gods. It is believed that twenty-two temples were originally planned, but the king died before they could be finished, and his successors discontinued the building work. In the outer area are royal palaces, a funerary palace containing five subterranean royal tombs.
Although construction in the city abruptly ended after Untash-Napirisha's death, the site was not abandoned, but continued to be occupied until it was destroyed by the
Assyria king Ashurbanipal in 640 BCE. Some scholars speculate, based on the large number of temples and sanctuaries at Chogha Zanbil, that Untash-Napirisha attempted to create a new religious center (possibly intended to replace
Susa) which would unite the gods of both highland and lowland Elam at one site.
Archaeological excavations undertaken between 1951 and 1962 revealed the site again, and the ziggurat is considered to be the best preserved example in the world. In 1979, Chogha Zanbil became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the UNESCO
World Heritage List.
See also
External links
- Chogha Zanbil
- World Heritage profile
- A informative video about Chogha Zanbil
{{Infobox World Heritage Site| WHS = Chogha Zanbil| Image = image:Choghazanbil2.jpg| State Party = Iran| Type = Cultural| Criteria = iii, iv| ID = 113| Region = List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia| Year = 1979| Session = 3rd| Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/113-->
image:Choghazanbil-model.jpg
Chogha Zanbil (
Persian language: چُغازَنبیل) is an ancient
Elam complex in the
Khuzestan province of Iran.It is one of the few extant
ziggurats outside of
Mesopotamia. It lies approximately 25 kilometeres west
Dezfoul, 45 kilometres south of Susa and 230 kilometres north of
Abadan by way of
Ahvaz, which is 120 kilometres away.
It was built about 1250 BCE by the king
Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honour the great god
Inshushinak. Its original name was
Dur Untash, which means 'town of Untash', but it is unlikely that many people, besides priests and servants, ever lived there. The complex is protected by three concentric walls which define the main areas of the 'town'. The inner area is wholly taken up with a great ziggurat dedicated to the main god, which was built over an earlier square temple with storage rooms also built by Untash-Napirisha. The middle area holds eleven temples for lesser gods. It is believed that twenty-two temples were originally planned, but the king died before they could be finished, and his successors discontinued the building work. In the outer area are royal palaces, a funerary palace containing five subterranean royal tombs.
Although construction in the city abruptly ended after Untash-Napirisha's death, the site was not abandoned, but continued to be occupied until it was destroyed by the Assyria king
Ashurbanipal in 640 BCE. Some scholars speculate, based on the large number of temples and sanctuaries at Chogha Zanbil, that Untash-Napirisha attempted to create a new religious center (possibly intended to replace
Susa) which would unite the gods of both highland and lowland Elam at one site.
Archaeological excavations undertaken between 1951 and 1962 revealed the site again, and the ziggurat is considered to be the best preserved example in the world. In 1979, Chogha Zanbil became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the
UNESCO World Heritage List.
See also
- Iranian architecture
- :Category:Castles in Iran
External links
- Chogha Zanbil
- World Heritage profile
- A informative video about Chogha Zanbil
