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VI. The Pahlavi Document from Avroman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. Cowley
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In the Journal of Hellenic Studies for 1915, p. 22, Mr. Minns published two Greek documents of the Parthian period acquired by Dr. Sa'id Khan from Avroman in Kurdistan, together with the facsimile of a third, not in Greek, which was found at the same place. As the writing of this third document (on parchment) seemed to be Aramaic in character, he very kindly sent me a photograph of it at the time, and has since given me additional information. The following note represents mainly what I then made out of the text, but it has lain in a drawer ever since because the results seemed hardly worth publishing.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , April 1919 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1919

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147 note 1 For a full account of them see the article in question.

148 note 1 This refers throughout to the papyri from Elephantine, published by Sayce & Cowley (Aram. Pap. discovered at Assuan) in 1906, and by Sachau, (Aramäische Papyrus) in 1911Google Scholar. Both with good facsimiles.

148 note 2 See Benfey, , Monatsnamen, pp. 79, 93.Google Scholar

148 note 3 So denoted by Westergaard. The language is generally called Chaldæo-Pahlavi. It is on the upper part of plate 2.

149 note 1 E.g. in Palmyrene; cf. de Vogüé, , Syrie Centrale, p. 21Google Scholar, No. 17, 5, where corresponds to δ[ραχμ⋯ς] or Ἀτ[τικ⋯ς]μυρ⋯ας.

149 note 2 Cf. Meissner in OLZ, 1918, p. 171Google Scholar. It then meant a half-shekel.

152 note 1 Cf. alao the strange translation of another inscription in the Indian Antiquary, xi, p. 225.Google Scholar

152 note 2 See plate 2.