Daniel T. Potts, “The Sale and Lease of Vineyards in Media Atropatene”

D.P. presents some scattered observations concerning the so-called Avroman documents, a series of texts written on leather, which have not obtained from modern scholars the attention they deserve. Found in 1909, in Iranian Kurdistan, the three documents, two written in Greek and the third in Parthian, concern the sale of vineyards between local people and cover more than 140 years, the oldest being dated to the 88 BC, the most recent to 53 AD. The two documents in Greek are written twice. One..