At the same time as the return of Dr. Masoud Mezikian, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from his trip to New York, the sixth shipment of Achaemenid tablets including 1100 Elamite tablets will be returned to the country.
The presidential souvenir is the result of intensive consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts and the Legal Assistant of the President with the Institute of Oriental Studies in Chicago, a new shipment of which is now returning to Iran.
These tablets are mostly written in cuneiform and in Elamite or Aramaic language in different shapes and sizes, and their subjects are mainly related to the management of resources, roads, social relations, basic necessities of life, wages and economy of the Achaemenid society during the time of Darius I.
In March 1311, in the archeological excavations of the ramparts of Persepolis, about 30,000 clay tablets from the Achaemenid period with cuneiform were discovered by the Department of Archeology of the Oriental Studies Institute of the University of Chicago.
In 1314, after the agreement of the then government of Iran with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Chicago, it was decided that the tablets should be entrusted to the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Chicago for translation and study of their contents, and the process of returning them is still ongoing.
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