Ishag Jafarzadeh

Ishag Mammadrza oglu Jafarzadeh (Azerbaijani: İshaq Məmmədrza oğlu Cəfərzadə; August 14, 1895 in Ganja – January 5, 1982 in Baku) was one of the pioneers of Azerbaijan archaeology and ethnography. He excavated over seventy artifacts on Azerbaijan's territory and studied the Gobustan rock paintings.[1] In 1948, during the Gobustan expedition, he discovered the Latin rock inscription near mountain Boyukdash, 70 km from Baku, which is the easternmost Roman evidence to be known.[2]

Notes

1. Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (1987), vol. 10, pp. 430-431
2. "Qobustan - Petroglyphs and Mud Volcanoes > Qobustan National Reserve". Archived from the original on 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2009-09-05.

Works

• "Azərbaycanın qədim tarixi" ("Ancient History of Azerbaijan"), Azərb. SSR EA Tarix və Fəlsəfə İnstitutunun əsərləri, c. 1, B., 1961
• Историко-археологический очерк очерк старой Ганджи (Родина Низами) (Historico-Archaeological Sketch on Old Ganja), Б., 1949
• Гобустан. Наскальные изображения (Gobustan. The Rock Paintings), Б., 1973