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ID: 4000270
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Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ţāq-e Bustān (inhabited place)  Ţāq-e Bustān (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 23 15 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.3876  decimal degrees
Long: 047 07 53 E  degrees minutes   Long: 47.1313  decimal degrees

Note: Ţāq-e Bustān is situated four miles northeast of Kermānshāh. Two of the three Sassanian (226-651CE) carvings at the site date to the 4th century CE and the third from the 6th century CE. The older reliefs are of Shapur II (reg 309-79) and his son, Shapur III (reg 383-8). The last one probably a depiction of the last Sassanian king, Chosroes II Parviz (reigned 590-628).

Names:
Ţāq-e Bustān (preferred,C,V,display)
Tāq-i-Bustān (C,V)
Tāq-e Bostan (C,V)
Taq I Bustam (C,V)
Ţāq-e Bostān (C,U,O,Persian-Farsi (transliterated)-P)
طاق بستان (C,U,Persian-Farsi-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Iran (nation)  ........  Iran (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kermānshāh (province)  ............  Kermānshāh (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Ţāq-e Bustān (inhabited place)  ................  Ţāq-e Bustān (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ancient site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
طاق بستان..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) 10117320
Tāq-e Bostan..........  [VP]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 32
Ţāq-e Bostān..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) 10117320
Ţāq-e Bustān..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Matheson, Persia Archaeological (1972) 128
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Taq I Bustam..........  [VP]
.......................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Tāq-i-Bustān..........  [BHA]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Matheson, Persia Archaeological (1972) 128
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) 10117320
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 32
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) accessed 29 July 2003
..........  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 29 July 2003
..........  Iran Chamber [online] (2001) accessed 29 July 2003

 

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