Parchments of Avroman

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The Parchments of Avroman (or Awraman) are three

Hawraman region of Iranian Kurdistan. They were found in Tang-i Var, Kuh-e Salan Mountain, near the village of Shahr Hawraman. The documents were found in a sealed jar by a villager, and then sent to London in October 1913.[1][2]

The documents date from 88/87 BC to 33 AD, with two written in

philologist Ellis H. Minns and published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.[3][4]

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  2. ^ Nyberg, H. S. (1923). "The Pahlavi documents of Avroman". Le Monde Oriental. 17: 182–230.
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