ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the period of the Kidinuid dynasty whose best-known ruler was Tepti-Ahar. Despite reigning at Susa, this monarch may have been buried inside a massive 3.75 m high mudbrick barrel vault in the nearby town of Kabnak or modern-day Haft Tepe (“seven mounds”). The architecture excavated at Kabnak includes two massive mudbrick terraces, numerous building complexes, workshop installations, and a funerary/cultic complex. Around 300 cylinder seal impressions were retrieved from the site, the largest number depicting one or multiple worshipers facing a deity who is usually enthroned. Amongst the unique finds of the period were two life-sized polychrome clay heads depicting members of the Elamite elite. Similar clay heads were found at Susa in funerary contexts, sometimes directly beside the head of the deceased. Also revealing achievement in the arts of clay is a large corpus of molded terracotta figurines depicting naked females holding their breasts, nursing females, naked couples on beds, empty beds, and naked bow-legged men playing a stringed instrument.
