The newly discovered inscription of the Stūdān of Kālak-Shour Shoushtar City

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Authors

1 Member of the academic faculty of the Department of Archeology of Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar branch

2 Associate Professor of the Department of Culture and Ancient Languages ​​of the Research Institute of Linguistics

Abstract

According to the orders of Zoroastrian religion and its related rites regarding the prevention of contamination of the four sacred elements or the four elements (water, earth, air and fire), the model of using the crypt and Stodan is used by the followers of this religion for burying the bodies. has taken. A large number of these works are located in Shoushtar as one of the important cities of the Sassanid period. In this research, in order to achieve the research goals, it has been tried to introduce one of the scholars of Kalak-Shor Valley and the inscription discovered next to it by using the descriptive-analytical method. The result of the research shows that this work is important both in terms of the issues of inscriptions and its separated lines and because of the information it provides about the dating of the type of burial architecture, and it can open the way for the dating of these valuable works in the Sassanid period.

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