A newly discovered building complex north of the “Frataraka” Complex. Consequences for the spatial definition of the Persepolis-Parsa Royal Area

Sébastien Gondet (1, 2) , Kourosh Mohammadkhani (3) , Alireza Askari (4)

1 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien
2 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
3 Shahid Beheshti University
4 Shiraz University - Shiraz University

From 2012 to 2014, geophysical and pedestrian surveys were implemented in fields located north of the Persepolis Terrace in the framework of the current Iranian-Italian archaeological mission working on the Persepolis, or Parsa, area. Surveys were carried out north of the so-called "Frataraka" Complex and revealed part of the plan of an almost 1 ha building. This large complex presents distinctive features for suggesting a dating back to the Achaemenid period and for interpreting it as an official building. Being located 600 m north of the Terrace, this discovery led us to approach the question of the occupation dynamics around the "Frataraka" Complex and beyond the limit of the Royal Area, defined in a broad sense as the core district of Parsa hosting most of the official buildings.

Mots clés: Iran; Fars; Persepolis; Parsa; Achaemenid; Post-Achaemenid; survey; geophysics; fieldwalking; city layout; Royal Area

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Etudes de l'environnement; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]

Sébastien Gondet, Kourosh Mohammadkhani, Alireza Askari. A newly discovered building complex north of the “Frataraka” Complex. Consequences for the spatial definition of the Persepolis-Parsa Royal Area. ARTA, 2018, 2018 (003), 35p. ⟨halshs-01972156⟩