Curse texts or defixiones are handwritten texts, often on thin plaques of lead, in which someone asks a god or demon to do evil to another person. The oldest known, very simple tablets are from Sicily and Sardinia and date…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A1Pa, inscription from Persepolis
[Old Persian inscription, written on a block of stone. The fragments were excavated on the…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A1Pb, Babylonian inscription from the Hall of Hundred Columns, Persepolis
[Babylonian inscription on a slab of stone.]
King Artaxerxes says:…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A1Vase A
Old Persian inscription on four silver dishes.
Artaxšaçâ \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ \ XŠyânâm \ XŠ…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A1Vase B
[Inscription on a vase.]
Ardaxcašca \ XŠ \ vazraka
The great king Artaxerxes.
Literature
Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A1 Vase C = A1 Vase D
[Two identical inscriptions on vases.]
Artaxšaçâ \ šhâyathiya
King Artaxerxes.
Literature
Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Ha, inscription on a column base from Ecbatana
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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Hb, inscription on column bases from Ecbatana
[Brief Old Persian inscription on column bases. It is interesting to see…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Hc, gold tablet from Ecbatana
[Rather stereotypical inscription on a gold tablet, similar to D2Ha.]
baga \ vazraka \ Auramazdâ…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Pa, indications of people on the Tomb of Artaxerxes II near Persepolis
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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Sa, inscription on column bases from Susa
[Old Persian inscription from the Apadana on fragments of four column bases;…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A2Sb, inscription on column bases from Susa
[Old Persian inscription on fragments of several column bases; Elamite and Babylonian…