Historical place profile
Shami
Site in the Shami Valley (Khuzestan Province, Iran), a settlement or sanctuary of the Parthian period (ca. 2nd century BCE-2nd century CE). In 1936, a team led by Marc Aurel Stein uncovered a bronze sculpture (the "Shami statue") at the site.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:912934
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:912934
- Place type
- sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.053345, 49.690336
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Site in the Shami Valley (Khuzestan Province, Iran), a settlement or sanctuary of the Parthian period (ca. 2nd century BCE-2nd century CE). In 1936, a team led by Marc Aurel Stein uncovered a bronze sculpture (the "Shami statue") at the site.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 F1 Shami
Source and reuse
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Research path
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