listed variously in the historical sources. In Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, his Persian name is Bardiya or Bardia. Herodotus calls him Smerdis...
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cuneiform was based on the Achaemenid royal inscriptions from Persepolis, later supplemented with the Behistun Inscription. Scholars deciphered the Old Persian...
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The Behistun papyrus, formally known as Berlin Papyrus P. 13447, is an Aramaic-Egyptian fragmentary partial copy of the Behistun inscription, and one of...
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Achaemenes (section Behistun inscription)
𒀀𒄩𒈠𒉌𒅖𒀪 (A-ḫa-ma-ni-iš-ʾ) in the non-contemporaneous trilingual Behistun Inscription of Darius I. The Old Persian proper name is traditionally derived...
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Decipherment of cuneiform (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
trilingual inscriptions from Persepolis and the inscriptions from Ganjnāme for their work. In a final step, the decipherment of the trilingual Behistun inscription...
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the most important attestation by far being the contents of the Behistun Inscription (dated to 525 BCE). 2007 research into the vast Persepolis Fortification...
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Epigraphy (redirect from Inscription)
epigraphy is called an epigrapher or epigraphist. For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native...
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Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
their territory. The first secure epigraphic evidence through the Behistun Inscription gives a date before or around 518 BCE. Persian penetration into the...
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Rosetta Stone (redirect from Rosetta inscription)
the Brahmi script, thus unlocking ancient Indian epigraphy. The Behistun inscription has also been compared to the Rosetta stone, as it links the translations...
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epigraphy, a multilingual inscription is an inscription that includes the same text in two or more languages. A bilingual is an inscription that includes the...
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Edicts of Ashoka (redirect from Ashoka inscriptions)
prototype dipî (𐎮𐎡𐎱𐎡) also meaning "inscription", which is used for example by Darius I in his Behistun inscription, suggesting borrowing and diffusion...
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either modern or ancient. Another attestation of his reign is the Behistun Inscription, where his grandson Darius I lists him among his ancestors, although...
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Pasargadae, Persepolis, Babylon, and Egypt. He had an inscription carved upon a cliff-face of Mount Behistun to record his conquests, which would later become...
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Anubanini rock relief (category Behistun Inscription)
Anubanini rock relief Anubanini relief Behistun relief The Anubanini petroglyph, also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, is a rock relief...
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Origin of the Armenians (section Behistun Inscription)
reference to the people and the country dates back to the 6th century BC Behistun Inscription, followed by several Greek fragments and books. The earliest known...
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Valley. It appears in various Achaemenid inscriptions such as the Behistun Inscription, or the DNa inscription of Darius the Great. The province was also...
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of Persia, conquered Babylon, he impaled 3000 Babylonians. In the Behistun Inscription, Darius himself boasts of having impaled his enemies. Darius speaks...
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Mazda occurred during the Achaemenid period (c. 550–330 BC) with the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great. Until the reign of Artaxerxes II (c. 405/404–358...
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Old Persian cuneiform (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
invented by about 525 BC to provide monument inscriptions for the Achaemenid king Darius I, to be used at Behistun. While a few Old Persian texts may seem...
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Achaemenid architecture (section Behistun inscription)
the Behistun inscription A picture of Mount Behistun. Note the size of the climbers compared to the size of the mountain A panorama of the Behistun inscription...
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Christian Lassen (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular:...
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Skunkha (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
captured their king. His capture is depicted in the relief sculpture of Behistun Inscription, last in a row of defeated "lying kings". After his defeat, Darius...
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Georg Friedrich Grotefend (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun: Decyphered and Tr.; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular...
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Cuneiform (redirect from Cuneiform Inscriptions)
Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, decyphered and translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in general, and on that of Behistun in Particular"...
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Res Gestae Divi Augusti (category Roman religion inscriptions)
Barbatus, whose sarcophagus carries a short inscription in Saturnian metre commemorating his deeds Behistun Inscription, commissioned by Darius I of Persia Res...
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Eugène Burnouf (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
of the inscriptions were numerous and important." A year later in 1837, Henry Rawlinson had made a copy of the much longer Behistun inscriptions in Persia...
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Mithra (section In inscriptions)
built. Although the Behistun inscription of Darius I (r. 522 – 486 B.C.) invokes Ahuramazda and "the Other Gods who are", this inscription of Artaxerxes II...
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mentioned in the Akkadian language and Elamite language versions of the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great, whereas in the Old Persian version it is called...
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Median kingdom (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
contemporary Assyrian and Babylonian texts, as well as the Persian inscription of Behistun, works by later Greek authors such as Herodotus and Ctesias, and...
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Phrygian language (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
semblable à celui de G-135." Brixhe and Lejeune 1987: 125. Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 274. Lubotsky, Alexander (2017). "The Phrygian inscription from Dokimeion...
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