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This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.

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PM 37-33-21 (field no. CT-135/5)
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Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Administrative: Receipt

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ostracon

Publications

  • Benfey, Thomas. 2024, “Windādag’s Orders: Ten Unpublished Middle Persian Ostraca from Chāl Ṭarkhān-ʿEshqābād.” In Maria Macuch & Arash Zeini (eds.), Deciphering the Illegible: Festschrift in Honour of Dieter Weber. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. (Pages: 123-145) (Pages: 21-22)
    The IEDC transcription and translation have been taken from this publication.

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1265
21/05/2025
28/05/2025

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Thomas Benfey
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Folios
1. recto
2. verso
Transliteration
Folio:
1  wndʾṭk' YWM
2  spn[drmṭ'] LHMA
3  K #-II OL gwlsk' [?] [or ⟨xwlšn'⟩?] Y
4  blcʾṭwr [?] YHBWN
1 kʾl Y YWM ʾmwrdṭ dʾn
2  …
3  …
4  …
Transcription
Folio:
1  Windādag rōz
2  Spandarmad nān
3  k[abī̆z]-2 ō gursag [?] [or “xwarišn”?] ī̆
4  Burzādur [?] dah
1 kār ī̆ rōz Amurdād dān
2  …
3  …
4  …
Translation
Folio:
1-4 Windādag on the day Spandarmad give 2 kabī̆z of bread to the hungry one [?] [or “for the food”?] of Burzādur.
1-4 [For?] the work of the day Amurdād grain…
Penn Museum: PM 37-33-21 (field no. CT-135/5): Folio (recto)
Penn Museum: PM 37-33-21 (field no. CT-135/5): Folio (verso)
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