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Another Inscription of Xerxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Roland G. Kent
Roland G. Kent*
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University of Pennsylvania
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By the courtesy of Prof. J. H. Breasted, head of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, the Illustrated London News for April 8, 1933, has a page of illustrations in color, representing recent finds of the Institute's expedition at Persepolis, under the field-directorship of Dr. Ernst Herzfeld. Among them is an Old Persian cuneiform inscription of Xerxes, on colored enameled bricks, forming a plaque to ornament a wall of the royal palace; in this function it is identical with the inscription on similar enameled bricks, found by Scheil at Susa and published by him as No. 12 of his Inscriptions des Achéménides à Suse (cf. my comments in JAOS 51.218-21 and 53.2-3), which formed a frieze about the great hall of Darius's palace at that place.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 1933, pp. 229 - 231
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Copyright © 1933 Linguistic Society of America

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1 At the same time, while adopting -ciy in the text, I feel that the enclitic may perhaps have been rather -di-i-ya = -diy (Avestan zī, Skt. hi), a similar emphatic particle which I still believe is to be recognized in ufrastä-diy Bh. 4. 69 (JAOS 35.351-2 and 51.229 n.), perhaps also in j'vadiy Art. Susa 28 Scheil (cf. JAOS 51.228-9).

[Since I wrote, Benveniste has discussed this inscription in BSLP 34.1.32-4, and proposes apiy ‘also’; but the vacant space does not suffice for / a-pa-i. If he is right, there must be enclisis and crasis: nā(pi)y.]