This volume provides us with the first detailed view of the functioning of the Middle Elamite Empire outside Susiana. The excavation encompassed a segment of a larger building that must have served as a focus for the servants of the Elamite state in Anshan. Even though the function of the excavated area changed over time—from monumental building (level IV), to ceramic production area (level IIIB), to domestic structure (level IIIA)—the strong cultural ties to the lowlands continued until level IIIA was abandoned.
Malyan Excavation Reports, II
- ISBN10 0924171227
- ISBN13 9780924171222
- Publish Date 29 January 1996
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 158
- Language English