Other finds: inventoried objects [From Persepolis West]

2008

Archaeological excavations of the 20th century at Persepolis, have yielded groups of clay tablets and bullae, found in three locations at the site : the northeastern fortifi cation, the Treasury building, and the Mountain Fortifi cation. The following remarks compile observations, most of them unavailable to earlier discussions, on the circumstances of the deposition and discovery of these groups.

Ernst Herzfeld’s field photographs from the 1932 excavation season at Persepolis include three pictures of a large fragment of a cuneiform tablet (Herzfeld Nos. 32.85 a & b [= Oriental Institute No. 12979] and 32.86 a [= No. 12978]; see Fig. 1).1 The photographs were made in the year before the discovery of the first Persepolis Fortifi cation tablets in March, 1933, and about four years before the excavation of the first Persepolis Treasury tablets in 1936 (Schmidt 1939: 3-37; 1957: 4f.). Although this was the first cuneiform tablet discovered by the Oriental Institute’s excavations at Persepolis, there is no mention of it in the publications of Herzfeld or of Erich Schmidt, who succeeded him as director of the excavations, or in those of George G. Cameron or Richard T. Hallock, who undertook the publication of the many Treasury and Fortification tablets found later. Perhaps Herzfeld was not excited by a fragment with a text that was mostly numbers and “dittos” and a few words that would have been incomprehensible in 1932, accompanied by the merest traces of a seal impression. It is tempting to infer from these photographs that Herzfeld made trial excavations in the Treasury as early as the season of 1932, but no records of such an effort survive....

2014

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2014

Gephyra, 2020

--ENGLISH BELOW-- F. Avcu bu derginin geçen sayısında Iuliopolis kentinin kuzeybatı teritoryumunda bulunmuş olan iki adet miltaşını sunmuştu. Bu miltaşlarından ikincisinin okuması fotoğraflardan yapılamamıştı. Taş üzerinde yapılan inceleme neticesinde, miltaşının Macrinus Dönemi’nde dikildiği ve yazıtta caesar ve kendisinin princeps’i olarak Diadumenianus’un da yer aldığı anlaşılmıştır. Miltaşının tarihi Ekim 217 ve Mayıs 218 arasındadır. Yazıtın çevirisi şöyledir: İyi talihle! Imperator Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Pius Felix Augustus, en yüce rahip, halk hamiliğinin 1’incisinde, 2’inci konsüllüğü için seçilmiş, vatanın babası, proconsul, ve Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus, en soylu Caesar, onun oğlu, ve kendisinin princeps’i. Iuliopolis’ten 7 (mil). ________________________________________________________________________________ F. Avcu presented two new milestones found in the northwest territory of Iuliopolis in the last volume of this journal. The text of the second of these milestones was not possible to read from the photos. An investigation of the stone concluded that the milestone was erected in the reign of Macrinus, mentioned together with caesar and his princeps Diadumenianus, sometime between October 217 and May 218. The translation of the inscription is: "With Good Fortune. Imperator Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Pius Felix Augustus, pontifex maximus, in the 1st tribunician power, consul designate for the 2nd time, father of the fatherland, proconsul, and Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus, the most noble Caesar, his son, and princeps of his own. From Iuliopolis 7 (miles)."

Star Carr Volume II, 2018

Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art, 2019