Researchers found a Sassanid stone inscription, in Naqsh rostam, Marvdasht, in which health for the souls of pious people was wished.
According to ILNA, Abolhassan Atabaki, a scholar of ancient languages, with a doctorate in history, said that he had found another stone inscription belonging to the end of the Sassanid period, which shows some of the views and thoughts of the people of that time.
In the regard, he said: “This stone inscription is written in two lines, in Dabireh characters (written Pahlavi), on a horizontal slope of the mountain, and this news was published in the “Avaye Tarikh” magazine, in Tehran, with the cooperation of Najmeh Ebrahimi, a senior expert in history, and Fazlollah Habibi, a Ph.D. student in archeology.”
Atabaki added: “Due to the type of sedimentary limestone and the continuous rains in these past 1600 years, ago, harmful erosion has occurred on the stones of this place, so that the first line of this inscription, which is darker than the type of sedimentary rocks, has been more damaged. Nevertheless, we tried to read this inscription, which unfortunately has lost some of its words.”
He said about the subject of this epitaph: This epitaph is a “memorial or prayer epitaph” that was written by one of the Zoroastrians from the people of Astakhar city or the residents of Naqsh Rostam Castle, about the “glory and mental health of pious people.”
In this context, Najmeh Ebrahimi, a senior expert in history, said: “Because of the erosion of the first line of the stone inscription, the distinction between words and letters is not very clear; that is why we processed the words of this line with some guess work.”
She added: The writing, transliteration, and translation of this stone inscription, which unfortunately has lost some of its words:
The glory of survivor… May the pious be healthy.”
