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.XPk, inscription on a relief from Persepolis
This inscription can be read on Xerxes' garment on a relief. It…
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.The following text was written by Xerxes on a stone tablet, and is an almost exact copy of…
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.XPm, inscription on column bases from Persepolis
This inscription can be read on many fragments from the Palace of…
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.XSa, inscription on column bases from Susa
Old Persian inscription on numerous fragments of a column base; translations in…
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.XSb, inscription on column bases from Susa
Inscription on a column base, Babylonian variant on XSc.
I am Xerxes, 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.XSc, inscription on a slab of marble from Susa
[Fragmentary Old Persian text on a slab of marble; 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.XSd, inscription on column bases in the Great Gate of Susa
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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.XSe, inscription on a slab of marble from Susa
[Babylonian Inscription on a Column Base made of marble.]
I am…
Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.The translation of Zosimus' New History offered here was printed in 1814 by W. Green and T. Chaplin in London,…