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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/84
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Sasanian Inscriptions
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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 folder
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Description: Loose folios. Handwritten in ink, with original envelope. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- "Transcriptions of Inscriptions. . ., from Ouseley's Travels in the East Vol. 2 p. 42"
- several folios with presumably transliterated Pahlavi inscriptions
- "Naksh-i-Rustam Sasanian Inscription"
- short note on the Sasanian inscriptions
- "Transcript of the Inscription behind horse at Naksh-i Rustom"
- "Transcript of Hajibad Inscription"
- multiple folios of tracing paper with inscriptions
- word meanings from Persian, Hebrew, and possibly Pahlavi written on the back of a poster of "Carlyle's Manifold Writer"
- hand drawn copy of "Conclusion of the imperfect Pahlavi inscription of 70 lines from Naksh-i Rustam"
- "Trilingual Inscriptions on chests of horses in bas-relief at end of hill . . ."
- "On northern bas-relief" at Naqsh-i-Rustom; "Pahlavi Inscriptions"
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- English
- Pahlavi
- Persian
- Hebrew
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)