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Khurdad (son Of Hurmuzd-Afarid)
Khurdad () was a Persian individual of modest origin who traveled from Iran to Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to pursue his studies. He was the son of a man named Hurmuzd-Āfarīd. Our knowledge of Khurdad primarily comes from a grave-stone inscription found in 1964 during excavations in the Çapa district of Istanbul, conducted by Nezih Fıratlı at a Byzantine cemetery near the walls of Constantine the Great. The inscription, written in New Persian using the Pahlavi script, was deciphered through the efforts of various scholars between the 1960s and 1990s. The most widely accepted interpretation of the inscription, which remains unchallenged, was put forward by François de Blois in 1990: The inscription offers significant evidence of Persian migration to Byzantium motivated by religious factors. Khurdad, who traveled to Byzantium to pursue Christian studies, was likely fluent in both Persian and Greek, retaining his native tongue w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomb Inscription Of Khurdad In Constantinople (after Mikhail N
A tomb ( ''tumbos'') or sepulchre () is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial. Overview The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including: * Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred * Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a * Church * Cemetery * Churchyard * Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
