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.Inscription on a Fluted Bowl of a king named Darius
[Inscription on a fluted bowl of Darius I 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.D2Ha, gold tablet from Ecbatana
[Stereotypical inscription on a gold tablet, similar to A2Hc.]
A great god is Ahuramazda, who…
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.D2Sa, inscription on a column base
[Badly damaged column base.]
imam \ apadânam \ stûnâya \ athagainam \
Dârayavauš \ 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.D2Sb, inscription on column bases
[Two column bases; Babylonian translation added.]
adam \ Dârayavauš \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ…
Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians, Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire, abandoned to Germanic-speaking…
Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians, Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom (below), added as a province to the Roman Empire, abandoned to…
Damascus (Aramaic דמשק; Greek Δαμασκός): important city in the ancient Near East.Bronze Age
Damascus, "Street which is called Straight"
Mentioned for the…
Dascylium: capital of the Persian satraps of Hellespontine Phrygia, modern Ergili.
Dascylium from the east
Dascylium, situated to the southeast of Lake…