Pahlavi Archive of Hastijan

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1 PhD. Student of Ancient Iranian Languages, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran, Tehran.

2 Professor of Ancient Iranian Languages, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran, Tehran

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In this article, after mentioning a brief background of the Pahlavi Archive, the dating process, and the place of their discovery, three documents with the names Unknown II, Berk. 20, and Berk. 223 are studied. Philippe Gignoux and Dieter Weber have previously read these documents or some words from them and translated them into French, German, and English. The many ambiguities in the written cursive Pahlavi script and the characteristics of the ink and pen used in the documents, along with the complexity of recognizing the handwriting and writing style of the scribes, make examining and reading these documents extremely difficult, and their revision is unavoidable. Accordingly, in this article, a new reading and meaning are proposed for some words. In addition, in all three examined documents, there is a special genitive structure, which is the key to receiving the main point of the documents, and it has not been paid attention to. In this paper, this structure is recognized and analysed, and its remnants are mentioned in some Northwestern Iranian languages.

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