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This chapter surveys the excavated evidence of Median date from Tepe Nush-i Jān. Excavations at the hill-top site of Tepe Nush-i Jan, located 60 km south of Hamadan, ancient Ecbatana, have revealed the well preserved remains of four distinct monumental mud-brick buildings, the first of which may have been founded near 750 BC. In the case of the Central Temple, where the most rigorous methods were employed, the altar was first surrounded by mud-bricks and shale in such a way that no harm could come to it, then the rest of the building was filled with chips of shale up to a height of six metres. The introduction of a columned hall at Tepe Nush-i Jan c 700 BC, and its subsequent abandonment less than one hundred years later, may or may not reflect local political conditions, such as the presence for a time of many separate regional rulers.
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