Journal of Iran's Pre Islamic Archaeological Essays

Journal of Iran's Pre Islamic Archaeological Essays

A model for interpreting two tablets discovered from the Konar Sandal of Jiroft and matching it with written evidences in Akkadian literature

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 UMZ
2 Assistant Professor of Archeology, Birjand University
10.22034/iaej.2022.13867.1045
Abstract
Konar Sandal’s geometric tablets have led to various theories about writing history. Still, due to the lack of a well-known pattern for reading, any attempt to understand their meaning has so far failed. Due to the one-line geometric side of these tablets, the previous methods of Grotefend and Champollion are not helpful here; therefore, the method of analogy with the common literary patterns of these tablets should be used. In the present research, first, an attempt has been made to make a check on the content of the two inscriptions among the mentioned cases, using the common writing patterns of the third millennium (Sumerian and Akkadian literature) to the first of BC between the Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau. Also, the proposed model was verified and adapted with evidence in Akkadian literature belonging to the third millennium BC, which was by order of the proposed model. This article shows that based on the standard writing patterns of the third to first millennium BC in the Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau, in the first two lines of one of the tablets, a description of a genealogy (holder of the tablet) is given. Then the text contains several identical signs or similar and seemingly used (probably a verb) until we come to the name and identity of a new person in the third line. It seems this tablet is written about the events between the owner of the tablet and this new person. In the second step, the same deductive pattern is used to analyze other parts of the same inscription and another inscription. It was further that the correspondence of the mentioned pattern with the Akkadian literature of the third millennium BC allows a whole meaning to a hypothetical verb and clarifies the general meaning of the tablet.
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