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...

Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto-Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribedobjects from Tape Sofalin published here...

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...

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...

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...

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.

the hoard of kalmakarra cave that includes hundreds of golden and silver objects has been unearthed in 1989 in pol-e dokhtar located at loristān province by villagers. in addition to aesthetical values, these objects bear archeological significance. their unique value, with respect to inscriptions in old aramaic, neo- assyrian and neo- elamite on some of them. deciphering these inscriptions by ...

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