Tepe Ozbaki (Uzbaki)
Medes to Early Bronze (c.7000 BCE–Medes 7th c. BCE)·Medes–Achaemenid transition plus prehistoric Tappeh·🇮🇷 Alborz Province, North-Central Iran, Iran
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About Tepe Ozbaki (Uzbaki)
Nine-period mound 15 km SSW of Qazvin with Halil Tepe–like sequence: Median mudbrick fortress + intact brick vault & rampart (oldest in Iran), Edriss Iron-Age citadel, Ozbaki Maad temple? plus Neolithic Shoulaveri transition. Y. Majidzadeh excavations. Tepe Ozbaki (Uzbaki) — Median–Oldest Brick Vault Levee context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTepe Ozbaki (Uzbaki) — Median–Oldest Brick Vault Levee
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 Medes to Early Bronze (c.7000 BCE–Medes 7th c. BCE)
- Period
- Medes to Early Bronze (c.7000 BCE–Medes 7th c. BCE)
- Culture
- Medes–Achaemenid transition plus prehistoric Tappeh
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Mudbrick rampart with oldest brick vault (Medes) plus four-period mound (Tepe Sialk analogue)
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Medes to Early Bronze
Mudbrick rampart with oldest brick vault (Medes) plus four-period mound (Tepe Sialk analogue)
On the ground