Year of Object(s) Creation: 440 B.C.E. (approximate)
Estimated Value ($USD):
Object Type(s): Panel, Plaque or Tablet, Relief
Object Material(s): stone
Provenience Nation: Iran
Provenience Location: Persepolis
Year Removed from Findspot: 1930 (approximate)

Provenance
Start Year: 2019
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Recuperated by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts and the presidential office for legal affairs and handed to the National Museum of Iran
Nation: Iran
Location: National Museum of Iran
Start Year: 1935
End Year: 2019
Circumstance of Acquisition: On loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Nation: United States
Location: Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute

1,784 Achaemenid Persepolis Fortification Tablets


Description:
Archaeologists affiliated with the University of Chicago discovered the tablets in the 1930s while excavating Persepolis. They had been lent to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago more than 80 years ago for research activities, then became slated to return to Iran. About the Year of Objects' Creation, the tablets date to the tablets dating back to the Achaemenid Empire (550 to 330 B.C.E.).

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated:
Year Claim Resolved: 2019
Means of Resolution: Litigation

Complainant Name: Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization
Complainant Nation: Iran
Complainant Nation Economy: Developing
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: Field Museum of Natural History (University of Chicago Oriental Institute)
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Institution

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Edited by Arianne Ohara Verified by Keli Fisher