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The Middle Persian Inscription at Sar Mashhad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Richard N. Frye
Richard N. Frye
Affiliation:
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
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In 1924 Herzfeld discovered the largest (in size) Middle Persian inscription extant, near the village of Sar Mashhad in the province of Fārs. It was never published, and in the summer of 1948 when in Iran I made a trip to the site. The literary remains of Herzfeld, with which I had been occupied, gave scant detail about the location and condition of the inscription, but with the aid of local people, especially Muhammad Hani of the village of Balādeh, I was able to find and copy the inscription.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 1949 , pp. 69 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1949

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References

1 This book was edited by Fritz Meier to be published in the series Bibliotheca Islamica (Leipzig-Istanbul, 1942). The edition was completely destroyed in Leipzig by bombs, not one copy having been saved. I used the proofs which Hellmut Ritter had.

2 A regular edition, with text and translation, of the Kaʻbah of Zoroaster inscriptions has not yet been made, but cf. Sprengling, M., “Kartīr, Founder of Sasanian Zoroastrianism,” AJSL 57 (1940) 197—228Google Scholar. The inscriptions of Naqš-i-Rustam and Naqš-i-Rajab were published in the monumental work of Herzfeld, Paikuli (Berlin, 1924).