# Sasanian economic-art pages print unfree and dependent labour on temple and noble land

Date: 2000

## The fact

Met/BM Sasanian landscapes imply dependent rural labour. The dated carrier is that modern interpretation. Unfree tightness is a modest path of medium/low confidence, later than any founder.

## Context

Not a unique wage series.

[Zoroaster](/people/zoroaster) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or public Avesta pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: British Museum collection — Sasanian and Zoroastrian-related objects (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection; British Museum).

## Significance

Printed temple-estates are not a Gathic payroll.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [labour-market-tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is labour-market-tightness. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Zoroaster: https://factrail.ai/people/zoroaster

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sasan/hd_sasan.htm
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-labour-temple-estates