Related to Roodbar city (located in Gilan province)
Also known as: Marlik Archaeological Region, Maarlik Archaeological Site, Cheragh-Ali Tepe, Cheraghali Hill
MARLIK, an elite burial ground of the late 2nd-early 1st millennium BCE in the western Caspian Sea. On the eastern fringes of the Sefid Rood River in Roodbar (Gilan Province), is a beautiful valley called 'Gowhar Rood'. Nestling in this valley are both large and small archaeological hillocks. Amongst which are the 5 hillocks of Marlik, Zainab, ...
Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan Province (in northern Iran). This hill also known as CheraghAli Tappeh is located in the valley of Gowhar-Rud (crystal river), a tributary of Sepid Rud River. Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3000 years ago.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
The mound at Mārlik is a rocky outcrop capped by several meters of sediment. It is surrounded by olive groves and fruit gardens owned and maintained by local villagers, overlooking rice paddies on the lower slopes of the valley. The site was already partly looted by treasure hunters and the archaeology team were hindered by local corruption
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik, Iron Age, Gilan, National Museum of Iran
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan Province (in northern Iran). This hill also known as CheraghAli Tappeh is located in the valley of Gowhar-Rud (crystal river), a tributary of Sepid Rud River. Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3000 years ago.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan Province (in northern Iran). This hill also known as CheraghAli Tappeh is located in the valley of Gowhar-Rud (crystal river), a tributary of Sepid Rud River. Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3000 years ago.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan Province (in northern Iran). This hill also known as CheraghAli Tappeh is located in the valley of Gowhar-Rud (crystal river), a tributary of Sepid Rud River. Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3000 years ago.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan Province (in northern Iran). This hill also known as CheraghAli Tappeh is located in the valley of Gowhar-Rud (crystal river), a tributary of Sepid Rud River. Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3000 years ago.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Most of the Marlik artifacts date from Iron Age I, between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC. The art of Marlik is often attributed to those who were, strictly speaking, the first Iranians, that is, to an Indo-European population. Before this period, the population of Iran can be considered Elamite.
Marlik musician figures
Most of the Marlik artifacts date from Iron Age I, between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC. The art of Marlik is often attributed to those who were, strictly speaking, the first Iranians, that is, to an Indo-European population. Before this period, the population of Iran can be considered Elamite.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Many impressive grave-goods were unearthed, most notably some beautiful golden cups, decorated with animal motifs in high relief.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Marlik was officially excavated in the 60s - 53 stone-lined tombs were discovered, ranging widely in structure, size and type of stone used - the largest are entirely of imported stone. Many impressive grave-goods were unearthed, most notably some beautiful golden cups, decorated with animal motifs in high relief. Objects from the Ziwiye hoard (found near Lake Urmia in 1947) have also been associated with Marlik and Hasanlu: items are currently widely scattered among different collections, and some are thought to be forgeries - but they do suggest the "missing link" between the "Scythian" animal style of the Steppes, and later art from the plateau.
Vase in the shape of a hump-backed bull
It was used as a rhyton, with the body of the animal designed to hold liquid. Most of the examples known, including the one seen here, are red or brownish red, with a polished surface.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
The archaeology is generally assumed to have belonged to a people group who spoke an Iranian language and who migrated into Iran from Central Asia in early to mid-2nd millennium BCE. The abundance of arms, horse-trappings (as well as horse burials), and spouted vessels among the grave goods has been cited as distinct Iranian signatures (Kurochkin). The exact attribution of these people, however, remains largely a conjecture.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Most of the Marlik artifacts date from Iron Age I, between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC. The art of Marlik is often attributed to those who were, strictly speaking, the first Iranians, that is, to an Indo-European population. Before this period, the population of Iran can be considered Elamite.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
Many impressive grave-goods were unearthed, most notably some beautiful golden cups, decorated with animal motifs in high relief.
Marlik artifacts
Gold cup decorated with Wild Goats. Gilan, Marlik Tepe, Amlash art, 10th-8th cent. B.C.
Marlik artifacts
Steatopygous female figure of Marlik, Iran. | Copyright: Javid Kiaei
Marlik artifacts
AN AMLASH TERRACOTTA STEATOPYGOUS FIGURE EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. With broad hips and short tapering legs, arms curved around to hold her small breasts, with pierced ears.
Gold Beaker Marlik
Gold Beaker from the royal cemetery of Marlik, here on display in Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands. The horse relief was chased from the inside and then embossed and finished with the repoussé technique. The beaker is dated 1150-850 BCE. On loan from the National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
Marlik Ishtar fragments
Fragments of clay statues of Goddess w:Ishtar (ca. 1,000 BCE) from w:Marlik at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California. Small statues of the goddess were often broken and buried before the doorway of a newly married couple's household as a good luck ritual.
Persian brick fragment from Marlik
Clay brick fragment written in cuneiform in the Elamite language (ca. 1000 BCE) from Marlik on display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California.
Bear-Woman Vessel found in Marlik Hill
Exhibit in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
A rhyton from Marlik Hill (1000 BC)
The archaeology is generally assumed to have belonged to a people group who spoke an Iranian language and who migrated into Iran from Central Asia in early to mid-2nd millennium BCE. The abundance of arms, horse-trappings (as well as horse burials), and spouted vessels among the grave goods has been cited as distinct Iranian signatures (Kurochkin). The exact attribution of these people, however, remains largely a conjecture.
Marlik artifacts - Louvre Museum
Most of the Marlik artifacts date from Iron Age I, between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC. The art of Marlik is often attributed to those who were, strictly speaking, the first Iranians, that is, to an Indo-European population. Before this period, the population of Iran can be considered Elamite. | Copyright: Javid Kiaei
Man and Woman sculpture found in Marlik Hill
The people of Marlik were nomadic horsemen whose way of life and art are known only through their necropolis in the fertile province of Gilan, southwest of the Caspian Sea.
Marlik Hill (Archaeological site) - Gilan
The Iron-Age collection is temporarily back home after being excavated some five decades ago from a royal cemetery near Roudbar, Gilan province, neighboring the Caspian Sea.
Marlik artifacts
AN AMLASH TERRACOTTA STEATOPYGOUS FIGURE EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. With broad hips and short tapering legs, arms curved around to hold her small breasts, with pierced ears.
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