Friday, April 25, 2014

Persian.ology [On the Persepolis Archives]

Persian.ology: gate-keepers of (clay) dinosaur bones, the story of the discovery and recovery of the Persepolis (Parsa) administrative archives (Persepolis Fortification Archive and Persepolis Treasury Archive) in the early 1930s. (114 pages, about 62M)
By A. J. Cave, April 2014
persian.ology : gate-keepers of (clay) dinosaur bones is an informal look at the Persian Achaemenid Administrative Archives recovered from Pârsa (Persepolis), Iran, in 1930s

parts are taken from the books:

an idol-worshiper’s Guide to god-stan: a Trilogy in 7 Parts (2012)
Cyrus 0.9: Highlander (2013)
“the Road to Persiana”, persian.ology Magazine (2013)

Published in honor of the celebration of the lifelong achievements of Dr. Matthew Stolper, head of the PFA Project, Monday, 28 April 2014, at the Oriental Institute.

The smaller version (without couple of repeated sections on archives and administrative languages, about 11M) is posted here, and here.
 
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 26, 2014 at 5:48 PM

    The link to the full publication doesn't seem to work. Please AWOL subscribers know when it is fixed, or if it is intentionally not available to the masses.

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  2. Chuck JonesApril 26, 2014 at 5:55 PM

    It works from here, so I'm not sure what the problem is (and I have no control of the server there), but refresh/reload the page and try again now. If it still doesn't work, let me know.

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