If you
visit Persepolis, you will also visit Naqsh-e Rustam and there you find a
structure called Ka'ba-ye Zartosht. It is situated in front of a mountain cliff
and exactly in front of the mausoleum of Darius II. in the cliff. There’s a
stairway outside to en entrance. It was built the Achaemenid era, but the name
of the structure during this period in unknown. During the Sassanian period it
was called Bon-Khanak and after the 14th century Ka'ba-ye Zartosht.
The
purpose of this building is unknown. One interpretation is: a Zoroastrian fire
temple, which I guess is nonsense. I think, some scholars are right in seeing
in it a place for the safekeeping of important documents. Around the building
there are inscriptions, which support this idea.
There
are inscriptions in Greek and also in the Pahlavi script, which had been used
for different languages. The texts are historic and religious documents. Shapur
had written: "I apprehended Caesar Valerian myself, by my own hands."
The Pahlavi script had been used as early as 250 BC. And one language, which
has been written in this script had been Aramaic. Aramaic had been a lingua
franca. And Aramaic had been the language of Jesus Christ. The Pahlavi script
survived in Zoroastrian texts. Book Pahlavi is full of logograms and other
ambiguities. “The word for "bread" would be written as Aramaic ⟨LḤMʼ⟩ (laḥmā) but understood as the sign
for Iranian nān”. Therefore important Zoroastrian text were “transcribed into
the phonetically unambiguous Avestan alphabet”.
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