Web' The fortification tablets were discovered in the fortification wall at the northeast corner of the Persepolis terrac and excavatee idn 1933/34 by an Oriental Institute expedition … WebThe Persepolis Fortification Archive documents a regional system of administration and redistribution and a network of interlocking institutions. The chief officer, Parnakka, …
The Persepolis Fortification Archive - JSTOR
Web24. dec 2009 · Abstract 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. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009 D. N. Mackenzie Article Metrics Rights & Permissions Abstract WebThe Persepolis Fortification tablets are in crisis because of a lawsuit that seeks to have them seized and sold. The University of Chicago is trying to defend the tablets. Attorneys … bishops close brechin
Cultural Plurialisms on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets
WebThe Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA) is a body of around 20-25,000 clay tablets found in two small rooms in a bastion of the fortification wall of Persepolis (Jones and Stolper, p. 37). The majority of the archive comprises texts in the Elamite language that record the storage and distribution of food. WebThe Persepolis Fortification Archive consists of tens of thousands of clay tablets and fragments excavated in 1933 by the Oriental Institute at the Achaemenid Persian palace site of Persepolis, and loaned to the Oriental Institute for study and publication in 1935. The Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA), also known as Persepolis Fortification Tablets (PFT, PF), is a fragment of Achaemenid administrative records of receipt, taxation, transfer, storage of food crops (cereals, fruit), livestock (sheep and goats, cattle, poultry), food products (flour, breads and other cereal products, beer, wine, processed fruit, oil, meat), and byproducts (animal hides) in the region around Persepolis (larger part of modern Fars), and their redistribution to gods, the roy… bishops close blackborough end