Category:Kurangun

Kurangun 

archaeological site in Iran
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Location	Iran
30° 11′ 06″ N, 51° 28′ 22″ E
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This is a category about a monument in Iran identified by the ID 254

The central relief is typically Elamite, showing the woship of divinities, ans is dated to the 17th century BCE. The only other known Elamite relief is at Naqsh-e Rustam, but it was nearly totally erased by later Sasanian reliefs.[1]


Identification in (12 November 2015) The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State, Cambridge University Press, pp. 169−171 DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316148501. :
"In Chapter 5 it was noted that the Kaftari period at Tal-i Malyan overlapped with the late Akkadian, Ur III, Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian periods, or the Shimashki and sukkalmah periods at Susa. For this reason it is unnecessary to again review the situation there. Two rock reliefs datable to this period have been located in Fars, and these show strong iconographic links to some of the popular Elamite glyptic mentioned earlier. The best preserved of the two reliefs is at Kurangun (Herzfeld 1926; Seidl 1986; Vanden Berghe 1986a; Kleiss 1993; Potts 2004b, 2013a; Binder 2013; Álvarez-Mon 2014), roughly halfway between Bishapur and Behbehan in western Fars (Plates 6.5–6.8, Figure 6.2). The left-hand and right-hand panels are of much later, Neo-Elamite date (eighth/seventh centuries BC). The central panel shows a god with horned crown seated on a coiled serpent throne (Spycket 2000: 654). Behind him sits a goddess, likewise crowned, wearing the kaunakes. Each holds a pair of serpents in the left hand. In his right hand the god grasps a ‘flowing vase’ out of which streams of water flow towards the first of three worshippers who flank the divine pair on either side. The identification of the deities on the relief is a matter for speculation. It has been suggested that they represent Inshushinak and Napirisha, the ‘divine Anshanite couple’ par excellence (Vanden Berghe 1986a: 159 with further refs.; cf. Carter 1989: 147, 2014: 44; Potts 2004b; Álvarez-Mon 2014).
(...) The glyptic evidence suggests a date in the sukkalmah period for the Kurangun relief (e.g. Amiet 1992b: 259; see also Vanden Berghe 1983: 114, 1986a: 162, n. 23; Seidl 1986; Carter 1989: 145; see now Binder 2013 for a detailed analysis of the glyptic parallels pointing to a late date). Interestingly, recent excavations (see Chapter 7) confirm the hitherto unattested presence of sukkalmah-era occupation of seventeenth and sixteenth century BC date at Haft Tepe (Mofidi-Nasrabadi 2014a: 90–8, Abb. 11–13), thus strengthening the parallels between Kurangun and Haft Tepe’s glyptic repertoire."

Attribution of the male deity in the relief to Inshushinak, in a comment on the fish-woman in the middle on the Untash Napirisha stele in "Female, Fish and Frying Pan: An Enigmatic Funerary Object Unique to Elam" in (8 June 2023) Susa and Elam II, pp. 394–440 DOI: 10.1163/9789004541436_013. :
"This fish-woman is presumably associated with Inshushinak, the deity mentioned in the stele inscription and probably the god shown in the top register handing a ring and rod to the king.[24] Note 24: This god is probably to be associated with the main deity on the Kurangun relief and another at Naqsh-e Rustam, both of which are related to the Mesopotamian Enki/Ea (Aruz1992: 130)."