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Expert Calls For New Study on Achaemenid Bardak-Siyah Palace in Borajzan
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03 August 2009 |
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Bardak-Siyah Palace (Click to enlarge) |
LONDON,
(CAIS) -- An archaeologist lamented the four-year
hiatus in the excavations at the Achaemenid palace of Bardak-Siyah, urging new
studies be undertaken on the ancient site in southern Iran.
Additional studies on the palace located
near the city of Borazajan in Bushehr Province can shed light on the history of
the Achaemenid dynasty before coming to power, Ehsan Yaghmaii told the Persian
service of CHN on Monday.
Much information will be eliminated if the
Bushehr Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department (BCHTHD) continues
to procrastinate over conducting a new season of excavations, noted Yaghmaii,
who discovered the ruins of the palace in 1977. He has also directed the first
season of excavations at the site in early winter in 2005.
Located in the ancient city of Temuken,
the Bardak-Siyah Palace was the winter palace of the Achaemenid vassal-kings
before Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Dynastic Empire in 550 BCE.
In
2005, Yaghmaii’s team unearthed a total of 16 column bases of the main hall of
the palace, which was previously believed to belong to Darius the Great, and 6
column bases of its southern iwan. The remains of its walls had previously been
discovered.
The palace has been abandoned as the walls
have partially deteriorated and the roots of the tamarisks are increasingly
causing damage to the column bases.
The tamarisks have been planted by the
owners of the palm gardens nearby in order to prevent sand storms.
The BCHTHD had previously announced that
it would purchase the palm gardens to free the perimeter of the ancient palace
of the tamarisks.
It has also repeatedly promised to
organize a new season of excavations at the palace, but the promises have yet to
be fulfilled, Yaghmaii said.
Four pieces of gold in the form of thick
folded sheets with a combined weight of about three kilograms were unearthed
beside one of the main hall’s columns in 2005.
The artefacts have not been given to the
team yet for an in-depth study, Yaghmaii said. He believes that the gold had
deliberately been folded and hidden at the foot of the column. He also surmises
that the gold may bear some inscriptions.
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