Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran): Two Squeezes of Inscription, DNb, Old Persian Version, on the Tomb of Darius I
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.5055
- 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
- Old Persian inscriptions
- 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, 18 cm. x 13 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.5055
- 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. 18a
- Paper squeeze numbered FSA A.6 06.C004
- Paper squeeze numbered FSA A.6 06.C015
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- - Handwritten notes from Photo File 33 reads, "Top = squeeze 4: Cuneiform; marked on print "R 21-26". Squeeze marked "12"."
- - Handwritten notes from Photo File 33 reads, "Bottom = squeeze 15: Cuneiform; marked on print "L 19-24". Squeeze marked "18-25"."
- - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.33: Photo File 33. 'Squeezes: Cuneiform and Arabic inscriptions.' Subseries 4.33, image No. 18a (Negative Number: 5055): (top) Squeeze 4; (bottom) Squeeze 15."
- - 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."]
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219967007-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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