An ancient city is on the verge of submersion after officials started filling the Salman Farsi dam near the city of Jahrom in the southern province of Fars.
The 2,200-year-old city has witnessed the post-Achaemenid to early Islamic eras and includes the remains of a Sassanid fire temple and a post-Achaemenid manorial house.
The site spans an area of 350 hectares and was first excavated by an archeological team directed by Hossein Jafari-Zand in 2007, CHN reported.
Excavations yielded Sassanid jewelry and burial sites along with the first Hellenistic pattern found in the country after 70 years. the pattern is engraved on a flat piece of ivory and shows the Greek influence on Persian art.
Belgian archaeologist Louis Vandenberg first discovered an object bearing a similar Hellenistic pattern in the Iranian city of Izeh in Khuzestan Province.
Jafari-Zand's team also found the ruins of a Sassanid fire temple at the site, which has the unique quality of having porticos.
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