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Title: Persian Paradise
Subtitle: Agricultural Texts in the Fortification Archive
Author(s): UCHITEL, Alexander
Journal: Iranica Antiqua
Volume: 32    Date: 1997   
Pages: 137-144
DOI: 10.2143/IA.32.0.519265

Abstract :
It is more than a little surprising that such an archive as representative of its kind as the Fortification Archive from Persepolis lacks texts of a cadastral character or those land-surveys which usually constitute an important part of economic archives. Only two texts from Persepolis display certain features common to landsurveys: PFT 1857 and 2032. Both texts were composed for the purpose of inspection and are arranged as inventories3; both specify the exact location of every field (district and village), but lack details such as land measuraments — information essential for any cadastral text.

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