The Tablet from Konar Sandal B (Jiroft) A （平板电脑从东部赫拉凉鞋B(Jiroft)）.pdf

The Tablet from Konar Sandal B – G.P. BASELLO elam@ 2006, June-October Revised 2006, November 7 Gian Pietro BASELLO University of Bologna, branch of Ravenna The Tablet from Konar Sandal B (Jiroft) and its Pertinence to Elamite Studies fter Oriental archaeology, art and history, the ancient civilization named after the Iranian city of Jiroft is Aon the brink of modifying our knowledge of the most ancient scripts of the world. The mission led by Prof. Y. Majidzadeh recently unearthed an inscribed tablet at the site of Konar Sandal B [CHN 2006, April 8]. Previously, in mid-February 2004, an impression of an inscribed stamp seal was found on the same mound [Covington 2004]. While the civilization of Jiroft is usually defined as ‘independent’ or ‘indigenous’, these documents have been presented in the framework of the Elamite writing tradition until P. Steinkeller (Harvard University) proposed the neutral label ‘Eastern script’ for naming their writing [CHN 2006, May 29]. “Elamite” scripts A brief survey on cuneiform Elamite sources may help in understanding what is currently linguistically classified under the label ‘Elamite’ by common agreement of the scholars. The oldest Elamite texts in cuneiform writing, the so-called “treaty of Naram-Sin” and two tablets published by M. Lambert [1974], are dated back to the last centuries of the 3rd millennium BC. These texts are readable because the shapes and the values of the signs are the same as those of the contemporary Mesopotamian sources. However, their interp