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On two Xerxes inscriptions (Plates I, II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Rudiger Schmitt
Affiliation:
Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken

Extract

Being engaged in the preparation of an edition of the Old Persian inscriptions of Naqš-i Rustam and Persepolis for the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum (CII), the present author was given the privilege of looking through the relevant material collected by Émile Benveniste (1902–76), who had been entrusted by the Council of the CII in August 1954 with the task of preparing the edition of the cuneiform inscriptions of the Achaemenid kings. In this collection there were found photographs of two minor Old Persian texts of King Xerxes I, previously documented only in the form of drawings by Ernst Herzfeld. These photographs are presented for the first time in this short paper.

Type
Notes and communications
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1999

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