“We have found many artifacts over the two phases of excavations in the ancient site. Our team discovered a pen-like instrument among the artifacts which seems it has been used for writing on clay inscriptions during mid-Elamite era,” Ehsan Yaghmaii added.
“The pen has a very simple structure, which is comfortably located between fingers. It has two tips in its two ends, one a little flat and another sharper,” he said.
The pen is 9 centimeters in size and is made of limestone. Experts say the well-sharpened design of the pen helped the user carve easily cuneiform script on wet clay.
Experts had already illustrated the imaginary design of the pens due to the ancient inscriptions written in cuneiform. “There is no big difference between the pen discovered in Toll-e Bondu and the pictures suggested by the experts,” Yaghmaii said.
Although the pen has been discovered in Toll-e Bondu, no clay inscription has been ever found in the ancient site.
Toll-e Bondu is located near Nurabad, 158 kilometers west of the provincial capital city of Shiraz. Archaeologists have excavated architectural ruins as well as metal and clay artifacts in this region which date back to fourth millennium to Achaemenid era and 13th and 14th centuries AD.
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