Altari a gradini nell'Iran antico

Following a long article of 1982 on the typology of the fireplaces, the author, here, in a volume dedicated to the memory of Prof. Giuseppe Tucci, entitled Orientalia Iosephi Tucci Memoriae Dicata, is dealing with the topic which ultimately was one of the aim of that previous article: the origin of the fire altar. Starting from the mud types of the stepped fireplaces in Dahan-i Ghulaman, in a private context, crossing the big one uncovered a Tepe Nush-i Jan in a Median context, the author led one to hypothesize the construction of a fire altar as a the monumentalization of a fireplace with the addition of a ancient ritual element of the ancient Near East, the steps.