elamite documents, and evidence of elamite writing in general, are rare from this period. however from susa under the sukkalmah period, there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian in various legal subjects, like sale, lease, and judicial procedures; this provides the historian with a unique opportunity fir the study of elamite legal and social institutions. the present essay will edit and tr...

there are only a few old elamite documents available today; however there are more than 500 legal documents from susa, written in akkadian, that provide us with a unique chance to study legal and social institutions of elam in the sukkalmah period. the present study will edit and translate three lease documents from the sukkalmah period, which are known as esip-tabal contracts. a comparative st...

the old elamite documents are indeed rare, but from susa in the sukkalmah period there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian which provide an excellent opportunity to study elamite society and culture. the present paper edits and translates a unique and very interesting will made by gimil-adad, a man from susa in the 17th century bc. in order to provide the historical context for the proper ...

writing system that we know to be a derived one. This early branching point is thus the equivalent of speciation in biological evolution. The separate writing systems of these neighbouring regions must have been mutually incomprehensible. Over a short time span — three centuries at most, but probably much less — the proto-Elamite script spread across Iran, offering a prime example of cultural d...

The archaeometallurgy of copper have been pioneer technologies in ancient Iran and goes back to about ten thousand years ago in Iranian Plateau [1, 2]. The Haft Tappeh Middle Elamite Site is located in Southwest Iran and have been an important city belonging to early phase of Middle Elamite period (14th century BCE) [3, 4]. Based on various metallurgical evidences found in archaeological excava...

This paper discusses the reconstruction of the Elamite language’s phonology from its orthography using the Gradual Learning Algorithm, which was re-purposed to “learn” underlying phonological forms from surface orthography. Practical issues are raised regarding the difficulty of mapping between orthography and phonology, and Optimality Theory’s neglected Lexicon Optimization module is highlighted.

in great achaemenian empire different writings and languages have been used in diverse areas of the achaemenian dominion for doing administrative-economic activities in administrative system. persepolis fortification archive in the empire’s center, belonging to the 13 to 28 years of darius the great’ reign, can be distinguished as the greatest and most important achaemenid multilingual administ...

Cet article est un tres utile resume, largement illustre, du livre complet et accompagne de nombreuses illustrations que A. Sh. a publie en 2015 persan avec texte 15 p. anglais. (Ārmān Shishegar. Ǡrāmgāh-e do bānu-ye ‘ilāmi az khāndān-e shāh Shutur Nāhunte pesar-e Indada. Doreh-e Ilām-now marhale 3B (hudud-e 585 tā 539 p.as m.) / Tomb of the Two Elamite Princesses House King Nahunte son Neo-Ela...

following the formation of the persian empire by cyrus the great and its extension by darius i, from indus river in india to nile in egypt, persian kings felt that there is a need to use an international language to be understandable by all nations of this great empire. this need was greater when they sent orders and messages to these different nations. when darius i defeated his enemies and su...