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.In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, which…
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Awan King List: Elamite chronographic document, mentioning several kings who ruled in the last third of the third millennium.
Awan King…
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Persepolis fortification tablets: large collection of ancient Persian cuneiform administrative texts, written between 506 and 497 BCE. They are one of the most important sources for the study of the administration of the Achaemenid Empire.Persepolis was one of the capitals…
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Persepolis Treasury Tablets: large collection of ancient Persian cuneiform administrative texts, written between 506 and 497 BCE. They are one of the most important sources for the study of the administration of the Achaemenid Empire.
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