cast;
block
- Museum number
- C.36
- Description
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Plaster cast of the right portion (i.e. beginnings) of lines 1-6 of Arsacid Pahlavi version of a bilingual rock inscription, commemorating a feat of archery.
- Dimensions
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Height: 584 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Height: 455 millimetres
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Weight: 30 kilograms (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Weight: 20 kilograms
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Width: 719 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Width: 633 millimetres
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Depth: 254 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Depth: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Possibly registered as 1880-1-30,9.
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There are two inscriptions at Paikuli. On the left is the Arsacid Pahlavi inscription made up of four joining casts: lines 1-6 are on C.37 (top left) and C.36 (top right) and lines 7-14 are on C.190 (bottom left) and C.191 (bottom right). The second, Sasanian, Pahlavi inscription is 6 lines and is made up of two joining casts: C.35 (left) and C.38 (right).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Possibly part of 1880-1-30,9 which is described in BM Return for 1880 as "Two plaster casts of Pehlevi inscriptions, from Hadji-Abad"
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- C.36
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1880,0130.9