Title: Tally, with Taitaka from Gauza
Date: year 3 of Darius III, corresponding to 334 BC
Location: Bactria
Materials: ink on wood
Dimensions: 2x19.7cm
Accession Number: T 1
Other Notes:
Inscribed on flat the surface is, ‘With Taitaka, from Gauza, in the year 3 of Darius the King’; and on the curved surface, ‘A second [tally]’. There are 61 notches in total.
Script:
inscribed in Aramaic
Bibliography:
J. Naveh & S. Shaked, Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century BCE), London 2012, no.D1, pp.232–4.
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