The world’s earliest surviving “ #Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private house, Panjakent, #Tajikistan, early 8th C. Paintings in @state_hermitage

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The world’s earliest surviving “ #Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private house, Panjakent, #Tajikistan, early 8th C. Paintings in @state_hermitage https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
The world’s earliest surviving “ #Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private house, Panjakent, #Tajikistan, early 8th C. Paintings in @state_hermitage https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
The world’s earliest surviving “ #Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private house, Panjakent, #Tajikistan, early 8th C. Paintings in @state_hermitage https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
The world’s earliest surviving “ #Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private house, Panjakent, #Tajikistan, early 8th C. Paintings in @state_hermitage https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
The section of the story depicted here involves Rostam defeating Awlad, who then joins his team, Rostam defeating a dragon, and then defeating an army of demons.

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Other fragments show the duel between Esfandiyar and Rostam, accompanied by the #Simorgh, here shown as an #owl; as well as scenes from the Faramarznameh, stories of Rostam’s son Faramarz in #India

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Other fragments show the duel between Esfandiyar and Rostam, accompanied by the #Simorgh, here shown as an #owl; as well as scenes from the Faramarznameh, stories of Rostam’s son Faramarz in #India https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
Other fragments show the duel between Esfandiyar and Rostam, accompanied by the #Simorgh, here shown as an #owl; as well as scenes from the Faramarznameh, stories of Rostam’s son Faramarz in #India https://www.patreon.com/eranudtur...
The earliest surviving written “ #Shahnameh” (ok again not quite) is again #Sogdian, from Dunhuang, with fragments in @britishlibrary and @BotBNF. Here’s a (dated) voice recording I did of it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sound-of-sogdian-23395330.">https://www.patreon.com/posts/sou... It details a fight between Rostam and a fortress of demons.
The sound of the Sogdian language: Rostam and the demons | Eran ud Turan on Patreon

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Many other #Shahnameh heroes are mentioned in another #Sogdian text. Here’s my attempt at writing it with a translation (translation by Y Yoshida) https://www.patreon.com/posts/sogdian-part-2-18847101">https://www.patreon.com/posts/sog...
A Sogdian exhaltation - Part 2 | Eran ud Turan on Patreon

Official Post from Eran ud Turan: Continued from Part 1 "May you be stainless like a pearlMay you be invaluable like a jewelMay you be excellent like the wise Lord Yima who is speaking fluently to...

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The personal names indicate they are loan words from #Persian rather than #Sogdian, and it’s likely these names and stories were already known in #Sasanian #Iran by 6th C.
Did the Sogdians paint the #Shahnameh?

Not quite.

It’s impossible to tell whether these are isolated scenes and stories, or part of a larger epic that the Sogdians knew about.
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