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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [195v] (395/504)
The record is made up of 1 volume (249 folios). It was created in 1907. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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300
(Mr. E. L. Mitford, F.R.G.S., says two figures on horseback) ; on the right
and left of the horseman's head were inscriptions now greatly effaced in
which Mr. Ee Morgan thinks he recognized letters of the Aramaean alpha
bet.
On the same rock in the cut through which passes the Hoi wan river was
another small tablet now practically completely effaced. On the opposite
side of the river, on the rocks facing the Hezar-Jeri mass, one sees the effigy
of a personage, but the ravages of time have completely obliterated all
trace of the inscription of this panel which by its whole appearance seems to
be very ancient.
In the large panel of Hezar-Jeri the figures are nearly life size, the outline
of the panel is very irregular and the relief is of a few centimetres only.
The bas-relief is composed of two parts divided by a horizontal line. In
the upper panel the King (Anu-Banini) is represented with his foot on a
prisoner, and facing him is the goddess Nini bringing 2 prisoners. The
lower panel represents five captives, their hands tied behind their backs
and headed by a crowned king, marching from left to right. The right
corner of the panel is occupied by a long inscription, a paleographic study of
which shews it to be of about the same period as that of the restoration of
the panel of Sheikham The inscription was extensive but only half now
remains. This is the translation that Rev. Father Y. Schei! gives of it: “Anu-
banini, powerful king, King of Lulubi, has erected his image and that
of the goddess Istar, on Mount Batir. Whoever should destroy these
images and this tablet may Anum and Anatum, Bel and Belit, Ramman
Istar, Sin and Samas curse him with fateful curses, may they destroy his
progeny.''
This is the road by which Cyrus, Darius Hystaspes and Alexander led
their armies to conquer Babylonia and Assyria and was the boundary
between Media and Assyria.
For other panel and rock tomb see Bukkan-i-Daud.
SARIVEH.—Kangavar.
A village of the district of Kangavar.
SARKALLEH.—Zohab.
The plain of Sarkalleh north of the plain of Zohab is the Garmsirs of the
2 branches of Jaffs who are under the Gurans. Rich speaks of a village
9 miles east of Zohab in Kermanshah on the road to Banikalan and Solei-
manieh, but this village no more exists. There is a ruined fort in the plain,
SAR-KUH.
A mountain South of Zardalan .—(#0 Morgan.)
SAR-KUH-KAMGA.—Kalhor.
Also called
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
Kamga.
Elevation 1,760 metres. (De Morgan.)
On leaving the Goawur plain, on the road from Harunabadto Gilan, aud
at the foot of the Kuh-i-Kechel one finds an old ruined Shah Abbassi cara
vanserai called Sai’-Kuh-Kamgah. From the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
to Kalkosh the
road runs along the right bank of the stream except at ^ farsakh from Kal
kosh where through a bend in the river, the river has to be forded twice.
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Gazetteer of the province of Kermanshah, Persia [Iran], compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino, Vice-Consul at Resht [Rasht] at the time of the gazetteer’s publication in 1907, and who had been Acting Consul at Kermanshah during 1904 and 1905. The gazetteer, which is marked for official use only, was issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff of the Government of India, and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla [Shimla]. At the front of the volume is an introduction by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, Acting Quartermaster General for Intelligence, dated 22 March 1907, and a preface by the author, dated 24 June 1904, with notes on the transliteration system used (folios 4-5).
The gazetteer includes five appendices, numbered I to V, as follows:
- appendix I, a translation from the French original of a description of the road from Kermanshah to Mendali [Mandalī], via Harunabad [Eslāmābād-e Gharb] and Gilan [Sarāb-e Gīlān], as recorded in a journal by Leon Leleux, Inspector General of Customs at Kermanshah;
- II, a translation from the Persian original of a description of the villages in the immediate vicinity of the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of Mahidasht, written by the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht;
- III, a vocabulary of terms;
- IV, a list of the principal roads from Baghdad to Teheran via Kermanshah, with distances given in miles and farsakhs;
- V, a list of the notables of Kermanshah.
The gazetteer contains extensive extracts from a range of sources, including: an earlier, unspecified gazetteer, published in 1885; various works on Persia by British Government officials (including Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, the Viceroy of India George Nathaniel Curzon, Captain George Campbell Napier); published works by a number of scholars and explorers of Persia (notably Trevor Chichele Plowden, Jacques De Morgan, Henry James Whigham, and James Baillie Fraser); reports from other sources, including Leleux, and the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht.
Some of the appendices’ pages appear to have been mixed up. Included among them are: a genealogical table of the princes of Kermanshah (f 239); and hierarchical tables listing the chiefs of the principal tribes of the province of Kermanshah (ff 244-245).
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- 1 volume (249 folios)
- Arrangement
The gazetteer’s entries are arranged alphabetically. An index at the front of the volume (folios 6-45) lists entries alphabetically, taking into account variations in the spelling of names. This index refers to the volume’s original pagination sequence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 250; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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