A Review of “Persepolis Fortification Tablets: A-G Texts”

This paper is a review of the second volume of "Persepolis Fortification Tablets". The book is a translation of the unpublished Persepolis Fortification Tablets, transliterated by Richard Hallock, edited and translated by Abdolmajid Arfaee. In the following words, the structure and translation of the book is evaluated and criticized. But apart from these, the main challenge to publish tablets despite the official announcement of the disagreement of the Oriental Institute of Chicago as scientific concessioner of the project to the “Editor and translator” and the Centre for the great Islamic Encyclopedia. This means that Research ethics is not being followed by a major scientific Centre in the field of humanities in Iran, and it makes referee to the book problematic for international researchers.