Behistun or Bisotun: town in Iran, site of several ancient monuments, including a famous inscription by the Persian king Darius I the Great. The full Persian text is here.Identification
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Behistun or Bisotun: town in Iran, site of several ancient monuments, including a famous inscription by the Persian king Darius I the Great.The following translation was made by L.W. King and R.C. Thompson (The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the…
Behistun or Bisotun: town in Iran, site of several ancient monuments, including a famous inscription by the Persian king Darius I the Great.Minor inscriptions
On the relief at Behistun, we can read several minor texts, which you can read on this page.
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Behistun or Bisotun: town in Iran, site of several ancient monuments, including a famous inscription by the Persian king Darius I the Great.
Column i
1-8
9-17
18-26
27-35
36-43
44-52
53-61
62-71
72-81
82-90
91-96
Column ii
1-8
9-17
18-28
29-37
38-45
46-54
55-63
64-70
71-78
79-88
89-98
Column iii
1-10
11-19
20-28
29-37
38-48
49-57
58-64
65-74
75-83
84-92
Column iv
1-11
12-20
21-30
31-39
40-49
50-58
59-66
67-76
77-86
87-92
Column v
1-10
11-17
18-26
27-36
Minor Inscriptions
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Gholaia: Roman fort, part of the Limes Tripolitanus, modern Bu Njem.The following inscriptions were found in Bu Njem. They are known to scholars as AE 1988, 1102; CIL 8, 10992; AE 1979, 645. The many erasures betray the Damnatio Memoriae of Geta…
Gholaia: Roman fort, part of the Limes Tripolitanus, modern Bu Njem.
The nomads have arrived, bringing four asses and two Egyptians carrying letters to you and to Gtasazeihemus Opter, and a runaway slave.
It is just a notice, scribbled on a potsherd from Bu…
Darius I (Old Persian Dârayavauš): king of ancient Persia, whose reign lasted from 522 to 486. He seized power after killing king Gaumâta, fought a civil war (described in the Behistun inscription), and was finally able to refound the Achaemenid…
The following text is a very small fragment of one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. Only some beginnings of lines of one column on the obverse of the tablet are legible.
For a very…