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Aryan Aratta, the seven-gated city! Aratta is a 'mythical' mountain region mentioned in several Sumerian texts. Is Godin Tepe linked to Aratta and the biblical mountains of Ararat? http://www.bjcorbin.com/is-godin-tepe-aratta.html
Looking for other research that corroborates Godin Tepe or the surrounding area as Aratta, I found the 1973 Ph.D. dissertation of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta by Sol Cohen, who determined the area near Hamadan - Nahavand - Kermanshah - Sanandaj to be the most likely location for Aratta. I consider Aratta a smaller region centered around Godin Tepe.
The book On the High Road by Hilary Gopnik and Mitchell S. Rothman, provides a detailed report of excavations of Godin Tepe by T. Cuyler Young, Jr. between 1965 to 1973. Godin Tepe is one of the largest mounds in the region, and provides the longest continual sequences of occupation of any site in western Iran and contains the following: moulds used to produce metal, lapis lazuli, early evidence for beer and wine production, and lots of goats (caprines).
http://www.bjcorbin.com/aratta.html
Godin Tepe photo from excavation (1965-1973) led by T. Cuyler Young, Jr., sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum
Credit Google Earth for background image used for “seven mountains” route over the Zagros 'Zubi' Mountains
Location of the mythical and legendary Aratta
Aratta proposed by Sol Cohen
Location of the Hasanlu Guto-Medes.
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