The Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute No. 10

Some years ago a Persian discovered on his property in the vicinity of Hamadan two plates, one of gold and the other of silver. He sold them to a Jew probably at its intrinsic metal value. Not knowing that the plates had inscriptions engraved on them, the Jew cut them to pieces before smelting them. A sayyad, a dealer in antiques, became aware of the inscriptions on the plates and bought them from the Jew.