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Fig. 3.1 Old Persian inscription in cuneiform script as recorded in the
eighteenth century at Persepolis (after Niebuhr)

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. . . It was not until 1621 that the Spanish ambassador to Persia correctly identified the site of Persepolis, the great Persian palatial centre. He commented on the relief sculptures, which offer such a vivid picture of life and clothing as they were in the early fifth century BC., and he went on to describe an inscription in the language of the Persian Empire -- and Indo-European language then unknown to scholarship:

There is a remarkable inscription carved on black jasper. Its characters are still clear and sparkling, astonishingly free from damage or deterioration despite their very great age. The letters themselves are neither Chaldean nor Hebrew nor Greek or Arabic not of any people that can be discovered now or to have ever existed. They are triangular, in the shape of a pyamid or miniature obelisk and are all identical except in position and arrangement. But the resulting composite characters are extraordinarily decisive and distinct. ~ 44

2 years ago.

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