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Bardak Siah Palace
is the name of the site of an ancient
Achaemenid
Persian
palace situated in the ancient city of
Temukan
near the township of
Borazjan
in the northern part of
Bushehr Province
of
Iran
. The site was unearthed in 1977 by Iranian
archeologists
headed by Ehsan Yaghmai
[1]
Further excavations at the site in 2005 led to a fragmentary sculpture featuring the head of the Achaemenid emperor
Darius the Great
(r. 521 BC-485 BC) with a servant carrying an umbrella behind him as well as four pieces of gold in the form of thick folded sheets with a combined weight of about three kilograms buried beside one of the main hall’s columns. Yaghmaii said he believed the gold sheets may have inscriptions on them and may have been deliberately folded and hidden during antiquity.
[1]
An
inscription
was also recovered with handwriting in the
Neo-Babylonian
language.
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