Word: marlik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thriving cities where the art was fashioned-Marlik, Shapur, Kashan, Nishapur, Tepe Hissar-have crumbled into oblivion. The fabled rulers and scourges of Persia-Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan-are dust. But a woman's bronze bracelet, a golden goblet, a statue of an ibex with circleted horns remain to testify to the enduring victory that art wins over time...
Full-Dress Dig. Dr. Negahban's party made exploratory borings in a mound named Marlik aftera nearby olive grove. Out of the red earth came gold buttons, small bronze cows, red carnelian beads, and two cylindrical seals used to roll impressions on moist claydocuments. The University of Teheran granted Dr. Negahban funds for a full-dress dig, and the 400-ft.-long boat-shaped mound was systematically excavated...
Most of the treasures of Marlik Mound are already safe in the Iranian Archaeological Museum, but new finds always give Dr. Negahban something else to guard. By now he is surfeited with gold; he would rather dig up a clay tablet...
From the style and workmanship of the articles he has found, he has guessed that they date from about 1000 B.C., but he cannot be sure until he finds some written record connecting Marlik Mound with the known chronology of ancient Iran. Perhaps he will never be sure; at the beginning of the first millennium B.C., the whole Near East was in turmoil, with fierce barbarians making forays far into the Assyrian Empire. Little was written down during this dark...
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