Parchments of Avroman
The Parchments of Avroman (or Awraman) are three parchment documents, found in 1909 in a cave in the Hawraman region of Iranian Kurdistan. They were found in Tang-i Var, Kuh-e Salan Mountain (Kurdish: کۆساڵان), near the village of Shahr Hawraman. The documents were found in a sealed jar by a villager, and then taken to London by Sa'eed Kurdistani[1] in October 1913.[2][3]
The documents date from 88/87 BC to 33 AD, with two written in Greek and one in Parthian. They document the sale of a vineyard and other land, and include the names of Pātaspak, son of Tīrēn and Awīl, son of Baænīn.[2] The Greek documents were translated and studied by philologist Ellis H. Minns in 1915.[1][4] The Parthian document was translated by several years later by Cowley,[5] and studied more recently by Livschits.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ellis H. Minns (1915). "Parchments of the Parthian Period from Avroman in Kurdistan". Journal of Hellenic Studies. 35: 98–141. doi:10.2307/624522. JSTOR 624522.
- 1 2 Edmonds, C. J. (1952). "The Place Names of the Avroman Parchments". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 14 (3): 478–82. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00088455. ISSN 0041-977X.
- ↑ Nyberg, H. S. (1923). "The Pahlavi documents of Avroman". Le Monde Oriental. 17: 182–230.
- ↑ Sayce, A. H. (1919). "Two Notes on Hellenic Asia I, The Aramaic Parchment from Avroman". Journal of Hellenic Studies. 39: 182–230. doi:10.2307/624881. JSTOR 624881.
- ↑ Cowley, A. (April 1919). "Pahlawi Documents from Avroman". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 147–154. JSTOR 25209482 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Livshits, Vladimir A. (2010). "The Avroman Parchment III in Parthian". Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia. 1: 159–74.
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