Sagzabad
Iron Age II–III (c.1200–550 BCE)·Iranian Iron (Persian pre-history)·🇮🇷 Qazvin Province, North-Central Iran, Iran
About
About Sagzabad
Qazvin plain Iron Age type-site: four-period red-slipped citadel with storeroom jars red-burnished late Bronze to Iron I transition, “Sagzabad Ware”. Tala’i mound with infant jar burials and sling-bullet battlefield horizon. Sagzabad — Iron Age Red Polished Citadel on the Qazvin Plain context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersSagzabad — Iron Age Red Polished Citadel on the Qazvin Plain
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Iron Age II–III (c.1200–550 BCE)
- Period
- Iron Age II–III (c.1200–550 BCE)
- Culture
- Iranian Iron (Persian pre-history)
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Red-slipped fort citadel after Bronze collapse
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Iron Age II–III
Red-slipped fort citadel after Bronze collapse
On the ground
Structures & features
35.7700° N · 49.9300° E · 450 m · 2 mapped features
Iron Age Red Citadel Wall
wallCurtain wall bastioned with red polish ware
35.7710° N · 49.9310° EJar Burial Necropolis
necropolisInfant jar cemetery south of citadel
35.7690° N · 49.9290° E
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