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3 unusual facts about Pahlavi scripts


Pahlavi scripts

Psalter Pahlavi derives its name from the so-called "Pahlavi Psalter", a 6th- or 7th-century translation of a Syriac book of psalms.

The cellars of the treasury at Mithradatkird (near modern-day Nisa) reveal thousands of pottery sherds with brief records; several ostraca that are fully dated

In the present-day, "Pahlavi" is frequently identified with the prestige dialect of south-west Iran, formerly and properly called Pārsi, after Pars (Persia proper).


Mehr Narseh

There is also the mention of a Zurwāndād as a great sinner along with Mazdak in the Pahlavi Vendidad, which may be a reference to Mehr Narseh’s son.


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