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===Early History=== | ===Early History=== | ||
The oldest preserved text in a language that can be ascribed with certainty to an early form of Dhannuá is the Samarkand stele, 300 BCE. The somewhat damaged stele was "rediscovered" in museum inventory, after | The oldest preserved text in a language that can be ascribed with certainty to an early form of Dhannuá is the Samarkand stele, 300 BCE. The somewhat damaged stele was "rediscovered" in museum inventory, after being donated in 1878 from a private collector and having collected dust for 133 years until its discovery 2011. The somewhat illegible text on the stele reads: | ||
:DOMAN•SEWANT•EWEN•REIDA•DEPOT•SEPT•KLUNIWAD•KAPTOD | :DOMAN•SEWANT•EWEN•REIDA•DEPOT•SEPT•KLUNIWAD•KAPTOD |