Epigraphy

The scholarship available on the Epigraphy of Ancient Persia.

General

  • Harrison, T., Writing Ancient Persia, London, 2011.
  • Kurht, A., The Persian Empire: a corpus of sources from the Achaemenid period, London, 2007.
  • Radner, K. & Robson, E., The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture, Oxford, 2011.

Further Reading

  • Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H., ‘Political Concepts in Old-Persian Royal Inscriptions’ in Anfänge politischen Denkens in der Antike: Die nahöstlichen Kulturen und die Griechen, Schriften des Historischen Kollegs (Kolloquien) XXIV, Munich, 1993, 145-163.
  • Wiesehofer, J. & Azodi, A., Ancient Persia: from 550 BC to 650 AD, London, 2001, 7-21.