Rayy: From Its Origins to the Mongol Invasion

An Archaeological and Historiographical Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27929-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 198 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World

This book offers a new history of the ancient city of Rayy. Based on the results of the latest excavations on the Citadel and the Shahrestan (the political and administrative nucleus of the city in all periods), the study of historical and geographical texts and on surveys carried out between 2005 and 2007 by the author and the Iranian archaeologist, Ghadir Afround, the complete occupation sequence of the city, from its foundation in the Iron Age and the Parthian reconstructions (2nd to 1st centuries BC), up to the Mongol invasions and rapid depopulation in the 13th century CE, comes to light.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rante, Rocco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE BY RENATA HOLOD

TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING

2. HISTORICAL SETTING

Pre-Islamic era
Islamic era
The first conquest of Rayy and the first caliphs
The Umayyad period
The 'Abbasid period
The Samanid period
The Buyid period
The Gaznawid period
The Salguq period
The Mongol invasion

3. PREVIOUS WORKS AT RAYY

Plans of Rayy in the 19th century
Pascal Coste’s Plan of Rayy
Pascal Coste’s Views of Rayy (1840)
Eastern elevation (folio 62bis)
Western elevation (folio 63)
Previous Archaeological Works at Rayy

4. TOPOGRAPHY OF RAYY

Topography of Rayy
The Citadel
The Šahrestan
Rayy Today: Between Modern Urbanisation and Preservation of the Site

5. EXCAVATIONS AT RAYY

The šahrestan Rampart
Test T1
Tests T3 and T4
Test T2: šahrestan
The Mosque
Citadel Excavation (in Collaboration with Ghadir Afround)
The West Fortress
The East Fortress

6. THE CERAMICS OF THE EXCAVATION (2006-2007)

Analysis of the Ceramics
Description of the fabrics
Chronological Study of the Ceramics: Synthesis and Interpretation

7. URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Urban Framework at the Origins of Rayy
Urban Development during the Parthian Period
Urban Development during the Sasanian Period
Urban Development in the Islamic Period
A glimpse of the urban development of some major Iranian cities

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Rocco Rante, Ph. D. (Aix en Provence, 2009), Aix Marseille Université, is an archaeologist at the Musée du Louvre and the director of the Archaeological Mission of the Bukhara Oasis in Central Asia. A specialist on the Khorasan region, he has published Nishapur Revisited with Annabelle Collinet, (Oxford 2013).