Ancient Persian Lexicon and Texts

Ancient Persian Lexicon and Texts

Preface

Merivale describes the Monumentum Ancyranum as "a truly imperial work and probably unique in its kind," but the record of the Great Darius on the Behistan Rock is just as "unique." The text of this inscription has been made more certain by the partial réexamination of Jackson (JAOS, 24 and 27= Persia Past and Present) and the new collection of King and Thompson (British Museum, 1907; discuted at date of present writing by Weissbach, ZDMG, 61; Hoffmann-Kutchke, Phil. Nov.III; Tolma, Vdt.Stud. 1; Bartholomae, WZKM, 22)...