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Die Altpersischen Inschriften Der Achaimeniden: Editio Minor Mit Deutscher Übersetzung

Die Altpersischen Inschriften Der Achaimeniden: Editio Minor Mit Deutscher Übersetzung

Schmitt, Rüdiger

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ISBN10: 3752007168
ISBN13: 9783752007169
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Published: Mar 6 2023
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.87
Language: German
For the first time since F. H. Weissbach, Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden (1911), in this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the Achaemenid dynasty. The text (which is presented in transliterated and in 'normalizing' transcribed form) and the translation take into account the numerous new texts discovered during the 20th century in Susa, Persepolis and elsewhere as well as the progress made in constituting reliable and authentic texts and in their interpretation. Only the minor corpora of vase inscriptions and those on seals and weights are passed over, because they are of only narrow historical meaning. The edition presents the transliterated and the transcribed texts in two columns next to each other and beneath them succinct annotations and the translation respectively, which tries to render the original wording as literally as possible. The text is printed neither continuously nor line-for-line as on the original object, but it is broken up into paragraphs and then into short sections (phrases, sentences, clauses).
The book starts with a list of all the Achaemenid cuneiform inscriptions (also those written not in Old Persian script and language), that describes the texts in outline and includes the literature relevant for constituting and translating the texts in question.
In all, this edition is intended not only for scholars working in the fields of Iranian, Indo-Iranian, and Indo-European studies. It is addressed also to all scholars of Ancient History, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Biblical Studies etc. not specialized, but interested in the Old Persiantexts and in the epigraphy of the Achaemenid period at all, and it will provide them with a reliable text for their studies.

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