C 83: Persepolis, Great Terrace inscription. Elamite text, 68g.

Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Squeeze of "Foundation Inscriptions," DPf, Elamite Version, Inscribed on Southern Terrace Wall

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sova.fsa.a.06_ref10383

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Local Numbers: C-083 FSA A.6 06.C083
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; Persepolis (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Southern Terrace Wall

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Achaemenian inscriptions; Architecture; Cuneiform inscriptions; Cuneiform inscriptions, Elamite; 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, 31 in.x 34 in. (78.8 cm. x 86.4 cm.))

Date: 1923-1934

Container: Item C-83

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

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 06.C083

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: - Original handwritten annotation reads, "."; - Information from Roland G. Kent's 1953 publication reads, "DPf = Darius, Persepolis F: Elamite, 24 lines, on the south retaining wall of the palace."; - Additional information from Joseph Upton's Finding Aid reads, "Squeeze No. 83. Persepolis, Great Terrace inscription. Elamite text, 68g."; - Additional information from Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum; Part I, Inscriptions of Ancient Iran; Vol. I, The Old Persian Inscriptions reads, "The architectural activities in Persepolis started soon after 519 B.C. ...and continued until Alexander's arrival in 330 B.C.. The structures -and hence the cuneiform inscriptions- of Persepolis were thus created in the space of nearly two hundred years. The original approach to the Persepolis platform was from the south, but Xerxes blocked that entry when he finished the north-western stairway. Not far from the original southern stairway, Darius the Great had carved, on a single block, four cuneiform texts (DPd and DPe in Old Persian, DPf in Elamite, and DPg in Babylonian). These serve as the 'foundation inscriptions' of Persepolis." [Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum; Part I, Inscriptions of Ancient Iran; Vol. I, The Old Persian Inscriptions; Portfolio I: Plates i-xlviii. Old Persian Inscriptions of the Persepolis platform. Edited by A. Shapur Shahbazi. Published by Lund Humphries, London, 1985. Pp.15-16."]; - Additional information from staff reads, "Squeeze No. 83: 68g, lines 16-24, bottom right edge."; Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Squeeze of "Foundation Inscriptions," DPf, Elamite Version, Inscribed on Southern Terrace Wall