Shami
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors:
DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 17, 2025 09:32 PM
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History
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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912934
32.05334505, 49.6903363
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kal-e Chendar (330 BC - AD 224) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 21868 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- کل چنار (Kal-e Chendar: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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sanctuary (religious center), settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 F1 Shami
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Shami
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Shami: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912934> [accessed: 15 December 2025]
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