چکیده:
Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northern Central Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto- Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribed objects from Tape Sofalin published here are very fragmentary, they document the existence of a developed administration
system.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Archaeologists have variously used the term proto-Elamite to mean IRANIAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES 2: 1 (2012) The Proto-Elamite Tablets 60 (View the image of this page) Fig. 3: 3D Map of Tepe Sofalin; Main Trench.
Tape Sialk (Ghirshman1938), Tape Sagzabad (Talai 1999: 5)1, Tape Ozbaki (Majidzadeh, 2010: 160) and Qoli Darvish (Sarlak 2010:114-116) and Hessar(Yaghmaie 2012) in the north; Shahr-i-Sokhta (Amiet and Tosi 1978) Tape Yahya (Lamberg- Karlovsky 1971) in the east; and Malyan (Nicolas 1990; Stolper 1985) in the south; and Susa (Carter (View the image of this page) Fig. 4: Distrubtion of Proto-Elamite Sites.
(View the image of this page) TSF 1, M376, is a graphic variant of a well-known sign in the Susa repertoire, M375, which represents a category of workers (Damerow and Englund 1989: 57-58).
IRANIAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES 2: 1 (2012) The Proto-Elamite Tablets 64 TSF 3 Observe 1.
It should be noted that making a comparison between the texts from Tape Sofalin and those from other proto-Elamite sites such as Susa and Malyan will help us to gain a better understanding of the emergence and development of urban centers in Iran based not only on analyses of contextual sign usages, but also on the structure and format of administrative documents.
All of the central features of the Tape Sofalin tablets are shared with texts from the other major proto-Elamite sites, most notably Susa, indicating the existence of a shared set of administrative formats and signs.