Inscription
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"Libyan" Inscriptions
"Libyan" inscriptions: name of the ancient inscriptions from Numidia and Mauretania, written in what appears to be an early Berber language. …Citizenship for the liberators of Athens
Inscription IG² 10 After the fall of Athens (April 404), the Spartans put up an oligarchic regime of thirty men (text).…The Nimrud Slab
Nimrud Slab or Kalah Orthostat (797 BCE): inscription by Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, in which he describes his successes in the west. …Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription
Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription: inscription, just north of Beirut in modern Lebanon, documenting the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE.Assyria and Egypt …Esarhaddon's Prism B
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Esarhaddon In the first quarter…The Stela of Mesha
The Stela of Mesha: building inscription from ancient Moab, famous because it describes events from the history of Israel that are also described in the Bible. …The Siloam Inscription
Siloam Inscription: inscription from Jerusalem, now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, documenting the cutting of a water tunnel. Siloam Inscription After the…A Jar with the Name of King Xerxes
A Jar with the Name of King Xerxes Jar, given by king Xerxes to queen Artemisia In the British Museum in London,…A Sicilian Curse Tablet
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…A1Pa
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…
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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.A1Pb, Babylonian inscription from the Hall of Hundred Columns, Persepolis [Babylonian inscription on a slab of stone.] King Artaxerxes says:…