Bābā Jān Tepe (Tappa), an archeological site in north-eastern Lorestan province (34° north latitude, 47° 56' east longitude), on the southern edge of the Delfān plain at approximately 10 km from Nūrābād, important primarily for excavations of first-millennium BC levels conducted by C. Goff from 1966 to 1969.

On the Central Mound (120 m in diameter, 15 m high), excavation concentrated on the Baba Jan III Manor on the summit; an 8 × 6 m Deep Sounding provides a partial late fourth- to mid-second-millennium BC sequence[1] Levels 7–6 in the bottom 2 m of the Deep Sounding yielded late fourth-millennium BC chalcolithic pottery similar to Godin (Gowdīn) VI .

Four other Baba Jan IV graves were cut into virgin soil on the East Mound; these date to the late third (Goff, 1976, fig.

The earlier, level 2, consisted of a rectangular court with a north–south axis flanked by long narrow rooms, the whole with towers both at the corners and midpoints of all sides.

The excavated portion of the Fort, whose walls survived to a height of 3–4 m, consisted of a large (12 m2) room with four irregularly placed columns and surrounded by long rectangular chambers.

This ceremonial hall, which opened southward onto an enclosed courtyard, had two columns, a niche and doorway with reveals, white walls decorated with red paint, and a painted-tile ceiling.

Baba Jan III pottery, long known as Genre Luristan, was a handmade, turntable-finished buff ware with distinctive decoration in a thick red-brown matte paint.

The walls of the ruined Fort remained standing until late in Baba Jan II; squatters briefly reoccupied the eastern rooms.

While the eastern wall of the Fort remained standing, three phases of small structures were built in the area of the Painted Chamber and its courtyard.

19–40; "Excavations at Baba Jan: The Architecture of the East Mound, Levels II and III", Iran 15, 1977, pp.

2; for Baba Jan III-I, see L. D. Levine, "The Iron Age", in Archaeological Perspectives on Western Iran, ed.