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The Prison of Solomon () is a hollow cone shaped hill in West Azerbaijan Province,
Located 3 kilometers west of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. There is an 80 meters deep pit in the middle of the hill, and the entrance to the pit is roughly 65 meters in diameter.
Name
Its current name "Prison of Solomon" was given to it by locals who think it is the placeSolomon
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...
kept demons prisoner.
History
The hill is the result of anArtesian spring
An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure. An artesian aquifer has trapped water, surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water contained within th ...
first creating a small pond. Lime and other minerals then slowly sedimented around the pond and created a wall. Over ages, this wall became taller and taller as the water overflew from the existing wall and sedimented even more which led to the structure we have today. The spring then dried, leaving a hollow hill behind.
Located 3 kilometers west of Takht-e Soleymān
Takht-e Soleymān ( fa, تخت سلیمان, lit=Throne of Solomon), is an archaeological site in West Azerbaijan, Iran dating back to Sasanian Empire. It lies midway between Urmia and Hamadan, very near the present-day town of Takab, and west ...
, the place has been subject to many religious and cultural practices through ages. It used to be surrounded by walls and hosted a Mannaean
Mannaea (, sometimes written as Mannea; Akkadian: ''Mannai'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Minni'', (מנּי)) was an ancient kingdom located in northwestern Iran, south of Lake Urmia, around the 10th to 7th centuries BC. It neighbored Assyria and Urartu, ...
temple in 880–660 BCE. However it did not reach its greatest religious importance until early 5th century CE when Takht-e Soleyman was established nearby as an important Zoroastrian temple.
National heritage site
It was listed among the national heritage sites of Iran in 15 March 2001 with the number 3257.See also
* Takht-e Soleyman * Tangeh Soleyman * Danial Cave (Persian Wikipedia)References