1915/11/01 by Ellis H. Minns · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Near East History #Ancient history #Archaeology #Art #Cave #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Frontier #Geography #History #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Peasant #Period (music) #Philosophy #Turkish
paper · doi:10.2307/624522
openalex publication_date 1915/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Avroman is a town in Persian Kurdistan lying close to the Turkish frontier between the sources of the Lesser Zab and the course of the Diala River some distance to the north of the highway from Bagdad (say Ctesiphon) to Hamadán (Ecbatana). Near it in a cave in the mountain called Kuh-i-Sálán, a peasant found about the year 1909 a stone jar hermetically sealed; in it were decayed millet seeds and several documents. These passed from hand to hand and some were lost, only three have survived; two, which being Greek most nearly concern us, are almost perfect, they have only suffered a certain amount from wear and from the gnawing of mice; the third written in an Aramaic script which has not yet been deciphered is said to have been much larger when found; what is left has been a good deal torn and is patched with modern leather.