Parchments of Awraman
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Parchments of Awraman are three parchment documents of Seleucid era and Parthian found in a cave in Tang-i Var, Kuh-e Salan Mountain, Awraman (Hawraman) region in 1909. The cave is close to the village of Shahr Hawraman in Iranian Kurdistan. A Kurdish villager (Hosain) found a stone jar in the cave hermetically sealed and contained decayed millet seeds and several documents. Mirza Saeid Khan (an ophthalmologist) from Sanandaj (Senna) bought the parchmrnts and took them to London where he sent them to E. G. Browne in October 1913.
Two documents are written in Greek (88/87 B.C. and 22/21 B.C.) and third in Parthian (about A.D. 33).The Greek documents are deeds for the sale of half a vineyard, and the Parthian document is for the sale of additional ploughland. These documents demonstrate the complexity of land transactions in this period, and including the names of Armenia's King Tigranes (Tigran II, 95-55 B.C.), his wives, and daughters.
The philologist Ellis H. Minns, describes and translates the texts of three parchment documents which published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Two documents are written in Greek (88/87 B.C. and 22/21 B.C.) and third in Parthian (about A.D. 33).The Greek documents are deeds for the sale of half a vineyard, and the Parthian document is for the sale of additional ploughland. These documents demonstrate the complexity of land transactions in this period, and including the names of Armenia's King Tigranes (Tigran II, 95-55 B.C.), his wives, and daughters.
The philologist Ellis H. Minns, describes and translates the texts of three parchment documents which published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.