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Imamzadeh Ja'far
To the north west of Damghan, this
brick mausoleum of Imamzadeh .la 'far with its four
false-arched walls, eight stalactite- decorated arcades, and dome,
ranks among the Seljuk monuments and has undergone some
reparations in later period.
In the interior of its ivan the dates 1266, 1412,
and 1447 AD can be seen on several tile fragments and stone slabs,
where the names of the architect and carpenter are given as Ostad
(master) Nizam od-Din ibn Ostad Ali ibn Ali (the carpenter) and
Ostad Mohammad ibn-e Saffar Damghani (the founder of this
benevolent edifice). In tcourtyard facing the monument, there is a
mausol~um ca1.1ed Im'iamzadeh Mohammad, which has been built in
the reign of the Timurid king, Shahrokh, a fact indicated by the
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Pir-e Alamdar
The
mausoleum of Pir-e Alamdar is a circular, lovely domed tomb-tower
which, according to an inscription, has been built in 1026 AD. It
is the oldest extant building of this type south of the Alborz
mountains.
The fame of this eleventh-century monument lies mainly in the use
of Kuffic design in its brick decorations and a Kuffic inscription
inside the tower. In the vicinity of this tomb-tower, there is
also a mosque that has been built in the reign of the Muslim
Mongol Ilkhan, Uljaitu. |
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Tappeh Hissar
Three km from the city of
Damghan, this Tappeh was excavated by an American Archaeological
Mission from 1929 until \93\, The excavations resulted in
the discovery of the remains of mud-brick dwellings and other
structures, numerous grottoes; objects made of bone, silver, and
other metals; plain and glazed pottery; agricultural tools; and
statues and figurines of men, animals, and birds, which have been
unearthed in an ancient cemetery and which, according to the
archaeologists, belong to the third and second millennia BC, when
the region had been inhabited. |
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