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The Nakš-I Rustam Inscriptions of Darius

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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Darius the Great of Persia died in 486 B.C. and was buried in a tomb cut in the south face of a steep rocky ridge about nine or ten miles northwest of Persepolis. His tomb is the third in a row of four, if we start counting from the west. The rocky ridge is called Husain Kūh or the ‘Mountain of Husain’, but Occidentals more commonly call it Nakš-i Rustam ‘Portrait of Rustam’, a name properly belonging to the tomb of Darius and its sculptured reliefs.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 15 , Issue 3-Part1: July-September , September 1939 , pp. 160 - 177
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Copyright © 1939 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Easily recognized abbreviations are used in this article, for the following works :

Chr. Bartholomae, Awestasprache und Altpersisch, in Grundriss der iranischen Philologie 1.152–248, hrsgg. von W. Geiger und A. Kuhn; Strassburg, 1901.

Chr. Bartholomae, Altiranisches Wörterbuch; Strassburg, 1904.

H. C. Tolman, Ancient Persian Lexicon and the Texts of the Achaemenian Inscriptions; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1908.

Hans Reichelt, Awestisches Elementarbuch; Heidelberg, 1909.

H. C. Tolman, Cuneiform Supplement, and E. L. Johnson, Index Verborum to the Old Persian Inscriptions; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1910.

F. H. Weissbach, Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden; Leipzig, 1911.

F. H. Weissbach, Die Keilinschriften am Grabe des Darius Hystaspis; Abhandl. d. phil.-hist. Kl. d. k. sächs. Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften, Bd. 29, No. 1; Leipzig, 1911.

A. Meillet and É. Benveniste, Grammaire du Vieux-Perse2; Paris, 1931 (ed. 1 by Meillet, 1915).

Ernst Herzfeld, Altpersische Inschriften, erster Ergänzungsband zu den Archaeol-ogischen Mitteilungen aus Iran; Berlin, 1938.

2 For detailed description of the tomb and of the studies of its inscriptions down to 1911, see Wb., Grab.

3 Neither Tolman in CS and Johnson in Index Verborum, nor Wb. in KlAch., has the fruits of such a good reading as Wb., Grab.

4 I am again indebted to my colleague and friend, Prof. E. A. Speiser, who has contributed generously of his time and his learning that I might utilize the Akkadian version.