Abstract
Abstract A pre-Sasanian Middle Persian inscription on a silver bowl is published here for the first time and compared with a similar inscription published by P. O. Skjærvø in 2000 and identified by him as naming members of the dynasty which ruled Persis (Fārs) in the 1st century bce. The commentary concentrates on the word šʾtḥw, apparently a name for this type of bowl, and on the importance of these inscriptions for the history of the Pahlavi script.
Highlights
A pre-Sasanian Middle Persian inscription on a silver bowl is published here for the first time and compared with a similar inscription published by P
Much more neatly written than Persis it strongly resembles it in ductus and can certainly be ascribed to the same period and region. It seems that this bowl may once have borne an earlier inscription in the same pointillé technique, which has been almost entirely obliterated but of which traces can be seen, in particular immediately after the end of the present inscription
The only problematic example is that in Persis, where the letter in question consists of a simple vertical line. Skjærvø read this as -n, which is certainly possible from a palaeographical point of view, all other examples of final -n in this inscription have a “foot” which is missing here
Summary
A pre-Sasanian Middle Persian inscription on a silver bowl is published here for the first time and compared with a similar inscription published by P. O. Skjærvø, ‘The joy of the cup: A pre-Sasanian Middle Persian inscription on a silver bowl’, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, XI ( [published ]), pp.
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