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Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran): Two Squeezes of Inscription, DNb, Akkadian Version, on the Tomb of Darius I

National Museum of Asian Art

Object Details

Local Numbers
FSA A.6 04.GN.5060
Creator
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Names
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
Cuneiform inscriptions
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
Excavations (Archaeology)
Inscriptions
Creator
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files
Extent
1 Glass negative (b&w, 18 cm. x 13 cm.)
Date
1923-1934
Archival Repository
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Identifier
FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.5060
Type
Archival materials
Glass negatives
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
- Glass Negatives, chronogically numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.
Collection Rights
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Existence and Location of Copies
Photo File 33, image No. 23a
Paper squeeze numbered FSA A.6 06.C046
Paper squeeze numbered FSA A.6 06.C039
Genre/Form
Glass negatives
Scope and Contents
- Handwritten notes from Photo File 33 reads, "Top = squeeze 46: Cuneiform; marked on print "bab R Id 1-5". Marked on squeeze "NiR.b bab 5"."
- Handwritten notes from Photo File 33 reads, "Bottom = squeeze 39: Cuneiform; marked on print "bab M IIIc 11-18". Squeeze marked "12"."
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.33: Photo File 33. 'Squeezes: Cuneiform and Arabic inscriptions.' Subseries 4.33, image No. 23a (Negative Number: 5060): (top) Squeeze 46; (bottom) Squeeze 39."
- Additional information from Roland G. Kent's 1953 publication reads, "DNb = Darius, Naqsh-i Rustam. The inscription 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 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."]
- Additional information from staff reads, "Herzfeld has divided the Akkadian version of inscription DNb into six row of squeezes, numbered I to VI, with a total of 39 lines. A letter, numbered a to e, then was added to the Roman numeral for the position of the squeeze starting from left. These two squeezes have been numbered by Herzfeld: Id and Mitte IIIc."
Collection Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1585219957152-1585219967009-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc391c7f6a5-8a4f-4841-9334-9eab82f333f3

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