A Forgotten Category of Archaeological Materials: Pottery disks in the Iranian area

The article inserted in a short and dense volume edited by Prof. A.M. D'Onofrio entitled Tallies, Tokens & Counters from Mediterranean to India, is dealing with a very unknown class of objects: tokens. Generally this kind of objects has not been very well documented and interpreted, and now to the light of a more increased archaeological documentation it is, by most of the scholars, interpreted as token type. The author outlines some evidences from Iranian area, in particular from Iron Age in Iran and in southern Turkmenistan and from a very late context in the Friday Mosque in Isfahan.