نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکترای باستان شناسی واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران
2 استاد گروه باستانشناسی دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه تهران، تهران.ایران.
3 استاد گروه باستان شناسی دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه تهران، تهران.ایران.
چکیده
The contractor of the gas line transition from Damghan to Neka destroyed and recovered two tombs at 2014. The site is located 80 km south of Sari. Archaeological excavations led to discovering two historical cemeteries, settlements, and an Islamic castle and cemetery. Architectural remains and objects indicate historical catacomb burials. There are questions about the site including architectural structure of the catacombs, burial method and dating. Systematic survey and excavation and subsequent comparison of data, with burial method, suggest a vast Parthian settlement in the site. Vestemin is the first Parthian site in Mazandaran. What distinguishes the site from the other Parthian cemeteries is family catacombs. The Vestemin catacombs consist of three parts, including 1) the rectangular space or the corridor, 2) threshold or entrance between the rectangular space and the catacomb chamber, 3) the catacomb chamber. Armaments including sword, dagger, arrowhead, trefoil arrowheads, and armor were of findings of the cemetery. Varieties of the objects and using armaments as gifts, had nothing to the dead’s sex. Investigating types of armaments reveal that how cavalries applied them, because armaments such as sword, dagger, and arrowheads, are light weapons that Agile Parthian cavalries used them against romans’ heavy weapons, as their classic enemy.
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عنوان مقاله [English]
Preliminary study and introduction of recovered armaments from Parthian catacombs at Vestemin, Kiasar, Sari, considering 2015, 2017, and 2018 excavation seasons.
نویسندگان [English]
- abdolmotaleb sharifi 1
- Bahman Firouzmandi 2
- Kamal-Aldin Niknami 3
1 PhD student in Archeology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
چکیده [English]
The contractor of the gas line transition from Damghan to Neka destroyed and recovered two tombs at 2014. The site is located 80 km south of Sari. Archaeological excavations led to discovering two historical cemeteries, settlements, and an Islamic castle and cemetery. Architectural remains and objects indicate historical catacomb burials. There are questions about the site including architectural structure of the catacombs, burial method and dating. Systematic survey and excavation and subsequent comparison of data, with burial method, suggest a vast Parthian settlement in the site. Vestemin is the first Parthian site in Mazandaran. What distinguishes the site from the other Parthian cemeteries is family catacombs. The Vestemin catacombs consist of three parts, including 1) the rectangular space or the corridor, 2) threshold or entrance between the rectangular space and the catacomb chamber, 3) the catacomb chamber. Armaments including sword, dagger, arrowhead, trefoil arrowheads, and armor were of findings of the cemetery. Varieties of the objects and using armaments as gifts, had nothing to the dead’s sex. Investigating types of armaments reveal that how cavalries applied them, because armaments such as sword, dagger, and arrowheads, are light weapons that Agile Parthian cavalries used them against romans’ heavy weapons, as their classic enemy.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- armament
- Sari
- Vestemin
- Parthian
- archaeology