Kotal-i Sangar

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REFERENCES

STEIN Aurel (1940), Old Routes of Western Iran (https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/MTAKonyvtarKiadvanyai_BORB_02/?pg=116&layout=s )
BRIANT Pierre (1982), La campagne d'Alexandre contre les Ouxiens (début 330). Etudes sur les formations tributaires du Moyen-Orient ancien, Collection de l'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité (https://www.persee.fr/doc/ista_0000-0000_1982_ant_269_1_2615 )
POTTS, D. T. & ROUSTAEI K. eds (2006), The Mamasani Archaeological Project stage one: a report on the first two seasons of the ICAR-University of Sydney expedition to the Mamasani district, Fars province, Iran, Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR), Tehran (https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/amar/399/ )

Nahegelegene Fundstellen

Eshkaft-e Yagheh Sangar (1&2) (MS30)
Two caves / rock shelters above the pass. Large scatter of chipped stone outside the entrances. Prehistoric (Neolithic to Chalcolithic) and Islamic occupation. Used nowdays as goat pens. Surveyed by Zeidi et al. (2002).
Iran, Yaqeh-ye Sangar
Yagheh Sangar wall (MS29) (G.11-17) - "Uxian Gate"
Ancient 550m decayed wall built across Sangar pass. Described by Herzfeld (1968), Stein (1940), and surveyed by Zeidi (2002). Middle section erased. Probable barrier for traffic control & tax levy. Proposed site of the Uxian Gate in Achaemenid times.
Iran, Yaqeh-ye Sangar
Eshkaft-e Yagheh Sangar (3) (MS30)
A caves / rock shelter above the pass. Large scatter of chipped stone outside the entrance. Prehistoric (Neolithic to Chalcolithic) and Islamic occupation. Used nowdays as goats pen. Surveyed by Zeidi et al. (2002).
Iran, Yaqeh-ye Sangar
Tappeh Yagheh Sangar Khonge Tāheri (MS28)
Sasanian and Medieval Islamic settlement (0,2 ha). Small, low mound. Traces of stone building remaining. Size probably underestimated, as shrinkened by modern cultivation. Surveyed by Zeidi et al. (2002).
Iran, Kūl-e Bozorg