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

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Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.5065

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

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

Extent: 1 Glass negative (b&w, 13 cm. x 18 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.5065

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. 28; Paper squeeze numbered FSA A.6 06.C027

Genre/Form: Glass negatives

Scope and Contents: - Handwritten notes from Photo File 33 reads, "Squeeze 27: Cuneiform; marked on print "Akkad. Rechts. IVd 16-22". Squeeze marked "17"."; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.33: Photo File 33. 'Squeezes: Cuneiform and Arabic inscriptions.' Subseries 4.33, image No. 28 (Negative Number: 5065): Squeeze 27."; - 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: IVd."