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informations. "Raguès," he said is in the north of Persia by 3 or 4 days from Téheran by side of Persepolis.

It is from an excavation, recently made where the fragments came to forming nearly the whole plate and I do consider the same en raison of the character of certains inscriptions, as dated from the reign of Haroun-al-Rachid who was the contemporanian of Charlemagne. It is in my opinion an object hors ligne and digne for a museum. I am sorry I could not purchased it as I'm not rich enough." As for Mr Kalebdjian he thinks the origin of it is the XIIth or the XIIIth century.