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Sargon inscription located in Uramanat, Kurdistan,
has at last been deciphered into Persian.
Tehran, 22 September 2005 (CHN) - Tangvar
cuneiform inscription in Uramanat of Kurdistan
province, Iran, which was a mystery for 10,000
years, has been read at last.
The inscription with a relief of a portrait of a
king is located east of Tangvar village in Uramanat,
Kurdistan. According to Adel Farhanghi, an expert
with Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Organization, during the studies made by Ali Akbar
Sarafraz, in 1968, the inscription dated back to the
end of the second and beginning of the first
millennium BC.
No further studies were carried out on the
inscription until the time the British scholar,
Grant Frame, managed to decipher it.
Mohamad Ebrahim Zarei, head of the Kurdistan branch
office of Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Organization, says that the inscription consists of
47 lines in cuneiform which had been carved in
Assyrian language. The inscription refers to the
Second Sargon, Assyrian King, on which his captures
of Arpad, Simirra, Damacsus, Egypt and other
countries have been inscribed. The inscription dates
back to around the eight century before Christ.
Zarei has recently translated the English text into
Persian, while trying to locate the historical
places on today’s maps and areas, and adding
previous studies and descriptions of the inscription
to his work.
Uramanat region starts in Kurdistan province of
Iraq, which is the greenest part of it, and runs to
Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces in Iran
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