Excavations at Anshan (Tal-E Malyan): The Middle Elamite Period

by Elizabeth Carter

This volume provides us with the first detailed view of the functioning of the Middle Elamite Empire outside Susiana. The excavation encompassed a segment of a larger building that must have served as a focus for the servants of the Elamite state in Anshan. Even though the function of the excavated area changed over time-from monumental building (level IV), to ceramic production area (level IIIB), to domestic structure (level IIIA)-the strong cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924171227
• ISBN13: 9780924171222
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.2"