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Abstract :
[en] The recent decipherment of the Linear Elamite writing (ca. 2300-1850 BC) gave access to “new” texts recorded in the Hatamtite (Elamite) language. Some of them are inscribed on specific silver kunanki vessels, found in the Kam-Firuz area (Fars), and dated between 2050 and 1850 BC. Ordered by kings related to the Shimashki and so-called Sukkalmah dynasties, these vessels were probably deposited originally in the temple of the then-most important god Napiresha, located maybe in the city of Anzan (modern Tal-i Malyan). Besides interesting linguistic and historical information, these texts document an up-to-now invisible feature of the Hatamtite (Elamite) royal ideology, where kings were notably offering Napiresha kere (devotion) in exchange for zemi (fortune/grace), being somehow rulers of divine right.
