The Behistun Inscription
Darius, the king Ezra and Haggai date their events by, left his own account of his reign — and the same stone is what made Akkadian readable.
Citado fora da BíbliaInscriçãoc. 520 BC
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…
- Encontrado
- A cliff face at Behistun, western Iran, 1835 — Copied at great risk by Henry Rawlinson
- Conservado em
- In place, on the cliff
- Língua
- Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
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.
Como os historiadores o usam
The foundation of Assyriology. Every cuneiform text quoted anywhere is read through the decipherment this inscription enabled.
Na Escritura
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Fontes
Por enquanto estes textos estão em inglês. As traduções virão.