3D print the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht
A free, printable model of the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, a square stone tower on a stepped platform, with the surrounding site, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 14 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 4 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
14 m of the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, 4 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Ruined stair and plinth
The model keeps the three-step plinth and the broken lower stair, with the upper flight missing. Print friendly preserves the stepped outline; 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers keep the surviving treads distinct.
- Ashlar blocks and blind windows
Large dry-jointed stone courses, recessed blind windows and a dentil cornice carry the detail. Full detail keeps the window rows and cornice; a larger print helps the small recesses read.
- One piece with the ground
The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht
The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, or Cube of Zarathustra, rises as a rectangular stone structure built in steps within the Naqsh-e Rustam compound in Fars, Iran. It stands beside Zangiabad village in Marvdasht county, and the compound holds memorials from Elamite, Achaemenid and Sasanian times. The tower sits 46 meters (151 ft) from the mountain, exactly opposite the mausoleum of Darius II.
White limestone forms the structure, with rectangular blocks stacked one on another without mortar and joined in places by dovetail joints. The tower measures about 12 meters (39 ft) to its top, or 14.12 meters (46.3 ft) with the triple stairs included, and each side of the base is about 7.30 meters (24.0 ft) long. A single entrance door leads through a thirty-stair stone stairway to the chamber inside.
It dates from Achaemenid times, though no name for it is recorded from then. Its purpose has been debated: proposed uses include a fire temple, the tomb of an Achaemenid shah or grandee and the safekeeping of royal documents, but none is accepted with certainty. Three inscriptions from the Sasanian era, in three languages, including Middle Persian and Greek, appear on its northern, southern and eastern walls, and one belongs to Shapur I.
About this model
The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht is one of more than 4,900 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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