This volume presents part of the author’s research on the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions recovered in the ruins of the Achaemenid palaces in Susa, conducted within the framework of the DARIOSH-Louvre Project. It offers a new study of several fragmentary inscriptions in Old Persian, Achaemenid Elamite, and Achaemenid Babylonian, currently designated as DSe, DSt, DSb, DSl, DSa, DSk, DSi, DSp, D²Sb, DSj, A²Se, DSs, ‘Inc. Sb’, and others. The book provides a new edition of each inscription based on both published and unpublished fragments. Additionally, it introduces some new lexicons and cuneiform signs in the Old Persian language and script.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Some Fragments of a Foundation Stone Table Inscription

1 AhuraMazda Protected the Great King's "Written Word": Fresh O Fresh Old Persian Lexicon in Newly Discovered Fragments of DSe (Accompanied by DSt)

Part 2 Terracotta Brick Inscriptions

2 "AhuraMazda Belongs to Me": Inscriptions DSa, DSb, DSk, DSI, and DSae

Part 3 Some Threshold Inscriptions

3 "I Did All Superior": DSi Inscription (Accompanied by DSp and D2Sb)

4 A Marvelous Palace Built by a Righteous King: DSj Inscription

5 The Man Who Does What AhuraMazda Wished: A2Se Inscription (Accompanied by DSs, 'Inc. Sb' and Two Other Fragments)

Appendix 1: Persian Translations of the Inscriptions

Appendix 2: Revised List of Old Persian Logograms

About the Author

Salman Aliyari Babolghani, Ph.D. (2014), is a researcher at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs and articles on Achaemenid inscriptions and the philology of ‘West Iranian’ languages, including The Elamite Version of Darius the Great’s Inscription at Bisotun (Nashr-e Markaz, 2015), in Persian.