Persepolis Fortification Research Articles

Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Vol. 1. Images of Heroic Encounter. By Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 117. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2001. Vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. xxxiii + 562 + 25 charts + 9 figs.; pt. 2, pp. xxiv + 291 pls. $140.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewSeals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Vol. 1. Images of Heroic Encounter. By Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 117. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2001. Vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. xxxiii + 562 + 25 charts + 9 figs.; pt. 2, pp. xxiv + 291 pls. $140.P. R. S. MooreyP. R. S. MooreyWolfson College, University of Oxford Search for more articles by this author Wolfson College, University of OxfordPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 63, Number 1January 2004 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/382560 Views: 6Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Lan Ceremony and Other Ritual Ceremonies in the Achaemenid Period: The Persepolis Fortification Tablets

During Ernst Herzfeld's excavations on behalf of the Oriental Institute Chicago at Persepolis in 1933-34, about 30,000 tablets and clay fragments, most of them inscribed in Elamite script and language,I were discovered in the fortifications in the northeastern corner of the platform. A number of these tablets are published in Persepolis Fortification Tablets. The texts showed that these tablets were in fact payments, invoices, receipts and financial and accountancy reports dating between the 13th year and the 28th year of Darius the Great. The regions in question are from east of Neiriz in Fars province to the border of Khuzistan province.2

The Neo-Babylonian Text from the Persepolis Fortification

The Neo-Babylonian Text from the Persepolis Fortification

Datis the Mede

Professor R. T. Hallock generously allows me to publish here his text and translation of the hitherto unpublished Persepolis Fortification Tablet Q-1809, to which he has referred in Cahiers de la delegation francaise en Iran viii (1978) 115.

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Persepolis Fortification Tablets deal with administrative transfers of food comodities from 509 to 494B. C., that is, from the thirteenth to the twenty-eighth year of Darayavau-I. It is the main purpose of this paper to find some tentative solutions about the problems of the relations between the rites in Persepolis and the royal economy through the investigation of these texts.The writer extracted 103 texts referring to the religious life in Persepolis and then classified them into two groups according to the text styles as below.Group I; rations for gods, that is, rite expensesGroup II; rations for individuals with religious functionsAfter having analyzed them, I could get the following facts.1) The rites were subjected to the royal economy in the respect of the material sources and man-power.2) The royal economy showed positive concern in extending its control over the administration of rites.3) The distinction between religious and secular circle was not so clear-cut, because there seems to have been considerably high level of mobility between them. I could recognize the two streams of the people; the outflow of priests into officials and vice versa.4) It was Persian kara-, the main power of the conquest movement, that profited from these processes.In principle, this was based on the request of the state at the turning point from war to peace. Haxamanis- needed not only to rearrange the administrative system but legitimately to absorb Persian kara- into it. In fact, Darayavau-I had already declared that he would protect the profits of Persian kara- in order to maintain the Haxamanis- dynasty.

Neo- and Late Babylonian Business Documents from the John Frederick Lewis Collection

Previous articleNext article No AccessNeo- and Late Babylonian Business Documents from the John Frederick Lewis CollectionHarold G. StigersHarold G. Stigers Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Cuneiform Studies Volume 28, Number 1January 1976 A journal of ASOR Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/1359517 Views: 6Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1976 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Matthew W. Stolper The Governor of Babylon and Across-the-River in 486 B. C., Journal of Near Eastern Studies 48, no.44 (Oct 2015): 283–305.https://doi.org/10.1086/373409 Matthew W. Stolper The Neo-Babylonian Text from the Persepolis Fortification, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43, no.44 (Oct 2015): 299–310.https://doi.org/10.1086/373091

イラン考古博物館所蔵ペルセポリス出土エラム語文書未公刊タブレットについて

By courtesy of the Tehran Archaeological Museum (Museh Iran Bastan), I had an opportunity to study unpublished Persepolis Elamite tablets in the Museum in 1973. On examination, fourteen Persepolis Treasury tablets (Teh. 9(w); Teh. 32; Teh. 34; Teh. 49 w; Teh. Pers. 3152-31 (?); 214/56 Teh. illus. B; dk 275 No. 25; 279; 2152/55 6(w); 2290; 2290 742; 3152/9 Teh. no. 38(w); no number; no number) and one Persepolis Fortification tablet (3152/37 Teh. 29w) were identified, but six documents (2290; 2290; 2290; 2451; 3152/52 48(w); 3152/65 97w) remained assigned to neither. In addition, some of documents referred as “not found” in Cameron's Index to Published Treasury Tablets (JNES 24, 1965, pp. 190-192) were identified as follows: 2275=PT45, 2279=PT60 and Teh. 3152/72=PT67. (Persian numerals and letters in italics.)In the present preliminary report, one of these unpublished Persepolis Treasury tablets, 2290 (one of documents with the same number), is transliterated (see p. 71), translated and commented. This is Marrezza's letter addressed to Barišša the treasurer of Parsa dated in the third year of Artaxerxes I, recording allocations to kurtaš kurnukašbe mišbazanaš. The expression “kurtaš kurnukašbe mišbazanaš”, which has been not found in any published Persepolis Elamite documents, is apparently parallel with “kurtaš marrip mišbazana” in PT 79 and further with “grd 'mnn vspzn” in the seventh Aršdma-letter. It is worth noting that the correspondence of kurnukašbe to marrip or 'mnn correctly reflects the translation of OP karnuvaka into El. marrip or Akk. ummanate, MES in Darius' Foundation Inscription at Susa (DSf),

Richard T. Hallock (ed. and tr.): Persepolis fortification tablets. (University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XCII) x, 776 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $45, £20.25.

Richard T. Hallock (ed. and tr.): Persepolis fortification tablets. (University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XCII) x, 776 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $45, £20.25.

A New Look at the Persepolis Treasury Tablets

Previous articleNext article No AccessA New Look at the Persepolis Treasury TabletsRichard T. HallockRichard T. Hallock Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 19, Number 2Apr., 1960 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/371570 Views: 13Total views on this site Citations: 6Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Rhyne King Trips to the King, Taxation, and the New Year in the Persepolis Fortification Archive, Iran 2019 (Jul 2022): 1–14.https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2022.2101936Wouter F.M. Henkelman Persia, (Jul 2021): 879–904.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119071860.ch62John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond, D. M. Lewis, M. Ostwald The Cambridge Ancient History, (Mar 2008).https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521228046T. Cuyler Young, Jr. The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses, (Nov 1988): 1–52.https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521228046.002T. Cuyler Young, Jr. The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes, (Nov 1988): 53–111.https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521228046.003Henri-Paul Francfort Central Asia and Eastern Iran, (Nov 1988): 165–193.https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521228046.006

Notes on Achaemenid Elamite

suppression of the many revolts that flared up all over the empire shortly after Darius' accession. In sheer bulk this text, which contains more than 3000 words, outweighs all the other royal inscriptions, which altogether contain less than 2600 words. In informativeness, even more, it outweighs the other royal inscriptions, which are mostly short and include much formulaic repetition. These other royal inscriptions may be subdivided as follows: Cyrus the Great, two texts2 (eight words); other Darius inscriptions, forty-four texts3 (about 1500 words); Xerxes, thirteen texts (about 850 words); Artaxerxes I and II, seven texts (about 180 words); the unassignable fragment PT 4 17, published in E. F. Schmidt, Persepolis II (1957), p. 53 (eight words preserved). The Persepolis fortification tablets, dating from the fourteenth to the twentyeighth year of Darius I, constitute a tremendous body of material, thus far almost entirely unpublished. Up to the present I The following list of frequently used abbreviations is intended to serve for both this article and the article to follow. For the Achaemenid royal inscriptions and their abbreviations, such as DB (=Darius Behistun), see R. G. Kent, Old Persian (1950), pp. 107-15. To his list is to be added the unilingual Elamite fragment published in MDP, XXIV (1933), 129, which should be designated A2Se. Note that I cite DB by paragraph and line number, even though the line numbers apply to columns, not to paragraphs. I do this in order to make the location of passages easier and to facilitate comparison with the OP version. Fort. Designation of Persepolis fortification tablets. Except where a publication is mentioned these tablets are unpublished. JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society. MDP Mdmoires de la Ddldgation en Perse. OP Old Persian. PMRAE H. H. Paper, The Phonology and Morphology of Royal Achaemenid Elamite (1955). PT Designation of tablets (PT 1 to 84) published in Cameron, PTT, pp. 83199. PTT G. G. Cameron, Persepolis Treasury Tablets (1948). 2 CMa and CMc. The fragmentary text CMb, hitherto assigned to Cyrus, more probably belongs to Darius, since the sign MUg preserved in the first line of the Akkadian version is not likely to be anything but the last sign in the name of Darius (to be restored [mDa-ri-i]a-mug); while the OP sign u plus a following trace, from which E. Herzfeld, Altpersische Inschriften (1938), p. 2, restores the name of Cyrus (Ki~rul), could more easily find some other interpretation.