islamic pottery of ancient city of jiroft

the limit and definition of the cultural zone of jazmurian in the southeastern iran is identical with the geographical boundarise of jazmurian basin and in geographical setting. the cultural zone of jazmurian could be identified with the ancient makan of akadian period, gedrosia and achofadjia of historical period. the remains of ancient city of jiroft during islamic period at the archeaological site of shahre –e- daqyanus with more than 12 sq. km have been identified. the city was a metropolitan with various quarters, squares, streets, four gates, market, mosque, different public bathes, mint, industrial quarter and workshops, kilns of pottery and cemetry. there is mass production of different types of islamic ceramics in jiroft from 7th – 13th centuries. these types of ceramics have connection & similarity with other contemporary types in other cultural centers such as china, oman and inside iran such as nishapur, suse, kashan, rey and jurjan the prosperous and wealthy city of jiroft was destroyed by the continoues attacks of ghoz and finally was abandoned in the 7th century (13th a.d).