Elizabeth Carter. “Parthian Pottery from Well 508 in the Ville Royale I Sounding at Susa”

The contribution presents the ceramic findings from well 508 in Ville Royale I at Susa one of the five wells of the sector close to the Achaemenid city walls where deposits of Parthian Pottery where found. The archaeological investigations in the late 70s aimed at establishing a solid relative chronology for the III millennium BC, therefore the later periods and the materials found in the wells did not get the attention they deserved at that time. Now the scholar who conducted those archaeolo..