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Tehran University . New Delhi, Tehran university. Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments ( Persian: نقش پارسی بر احجار هند) is a book written in Persian by Dr Ali Asghar Hekmat E Shirazi and published in 1956 and 1958 and 2013. New edition contains the Persian texts of more than 200 epigraphical inscriptions found on ...
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great ...
The Achaemenid royal inscriptions are the surviving inscriptions in cuneiform script from the Achaemenid Empire, dating from the 6th to 4th century BCE (reigns of Cyrus II to Artaxerxes III ). These inscriptions are primary sources for the history of the empire, along with archaeological evidence and the administrative archives of Persepolis.
Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian. Texts written in this cuneiform have been found in Iran ( Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Kharg Island ), Armenia, Romania ( Gherla ), [ 1][ 2][ 3] Turkey ( Van Fortress ), and along the Suez Canal. [ 4] They were mostly inscriptions from the ...
This is a list of Sasanian inscription, which include remaining official inscriptions on rocks, as well as minor ones written on bricks, metal, wood, hide, papyri, and gems. Their significance is in the areas of linguistics, history, and study of religion in Persia. Some of the inscriptions are lost and are known only through tradition.
Persian penetration into the Indian subcontinent occurred in multiple stages, beginning from the northern parts of the Indus River and moving southward. [7] As mentioned in several Achaemenid-era inscriptions, the Indus Valley was formally incorporated into the Persian realm through provincial divisions: Gandāra, Hindush, and Sattagydia.
P. Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments. Persian manuscript in Japan. Categories: Iranian inscriptions. Persian language. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Ganjnameh ( Persian: گنجنامه, romanized :Ganjnāme, lit. 'Treasure Book') is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of c.2000 meters across Mount Alvand. [1] [2] The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. [1] The inscription on the upper left was created on the order ...