C 54: Naqsh-i Rustam, squeeze marked. "NiR Z. 41--49 (2)". Numbers 54--57 are clearly parts of the Darius inscription

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran): Squeeze of Inscription, DNb, Old Persian Version, on the Tomb of Darius I

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sova.fsa.a.06_ref10354

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Local Numbers: C-054 FSA A.6 06.C054
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Roland G. Kent's publication, "Old Persian. Grammar, Texts, Lexicon. 2nd Revised Edition. American Oriental Society, Vol. 33. American Oriental Society, New Haven, Connecticut, 1953," and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Collection Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Place: Asia; Iran; Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Naqsh-i Rustam -- Tomb of Darius I

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Achaemenian inscriptions; Architecture; Cuneiform inscriptions; Old Persian inscriptions; Excavations (Archaeology); Inscriptions

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions / 6.3: Cuneiform Script

Extent: 1 Item (paper squeeze, b&w, 20 in.x 31 in. (50.8 cm. x 78.7 cm.))

Date: 1923-1934

Container: Item C-54

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 06.C054

Type: Archival materials; Paper squeezes

Collection Citation: Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.

Arrangement: Papers squeezes are organized in sequential number following language scripts, which are housed in folders, and stored in metal flat files.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form: Paper Squeezes

Scope and Contents: - Information from Roland G. Kent's 1953 publication reads, "DNb = Darius, Naqsh-i Rustam. The inscrition Naqsh-i Rustam B stands on the two sides of the door in the center of the crossbeam: Old Persian in the panel to its left, in 60 lines; Elamite, 43 lines, in the panel to the right, with an Aramaic version in 25 lines at the bottom; in the last panel to the right, the Akkadian version in 39 lines with the space of one line vacant between lines 31 and 32."; - Additional information from Joseph Upton's Finding Aid reads, "Squeeze No. 54. [no neg.] Naqsh-i Rustam, Ni R Z. 41-49 (2)."; - Additional information from staff reads, "Squeeze No. 54: Lines 41-49, position not identified."; - Additional information from Roland G. Kent's publication reads, "Some miles north of Persepolis, on the south face of a steep ridge known as Ḥusain Kūh or 'Mountain of Husain', there are four gigantic niches, cut in the shape of Greek crosses, and serving as entrances to the tombs lying in the rock behind them. The second from the east is the tomb of Darius I, and bears inscriptions." [Roland Kent: Old Persian. Grammar, Texts, Lexicon. 2nd Revised Edition. American Oriental Society, Vol. 33. American Oriental Society, New Haven, Connecticut, 1953, p.109."]; Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran): Squeeze of Inscription, DNb, Old Persian Version, on the Tomb of Darius I