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L'inscription de Behistun

Darius, le roi par le règne duquel Esdras et Aggée datent leurs événements, a laissé son propre récit — et c'est ce même rocher qui a rendu l'akkadien lisible.

Nommé hors de la BibleInscriptionc. 520 BC

The relief and inscription of Darius cut high on the cliff at Behistun
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Darius I's account of his rise, cut into a cliff a hundred metres up, in three languages. Because the same text appears in three scripts it became the key that unlocked cuneiform — which is why any of the Assyrian and Babylonian records here can be read at all.

I am Darius the Great King, King of Kings, King in Persia, King of countries…
Behistun Inscription, column 1
Découvert
A cliff face at Behistun, western Iran, 1835 — Copied at great risk by Henry Rawlinson
Conservé à
In place, on the cliff
Langue
Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian
Comment il nous est parvenu
Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.

Ce qu'elle montre

Darius's version of his own accession is royal propaganda and is read as such; its value here is the king, the dating and the decipherment.

Ce qu'en font les historiens

The foundation of Assyriology. Every cuneiform text quoted anywhere is read through the decipherment this inscription enabled.

Dans l'Écriture

Ezr 4:24, Ezr 6:1, Hag 1:1, Zec 1:1

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Sources

Ces textes sont pour l'instant en anglais. Les traductions suivront.