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Three of the Bodashtart inscriptions, currently on display at the Louvre. Bodashtart (also transliterated BodΚΏaštort, meaning "from the hand of Astarte"; Phoenician: π€π€π€π€π€π€π€) was a Phoenician ruler, who reigned as King of Sidon (c. 525 – c. 515 BC), the grandson of King Eshmunazar I, and a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire.
Engravers Old English (1906, Benton), based upon Caslon Text and designed in association with "Cowan" or perhaps Phinney. Engravers Old English Bold (1910, Benton) Engravers Shaded (1906, Benton) Lithographic Shaded (1914, Benton + W. F. Capitian), a half-shaded version of Engravers Shaded. Engravers Text (1930, Benton) Flemish Black (1902 ...
Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian.Texts written in this cuneiform have been found in Iran (Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Kharg Island), Armenia, Romania (), [1] [2] [3] Turkey (Van Fortress), and along the Suez Canal. [4]
Beneath his chin, archaeologists found a silver amulet capsule measuring 35 mm (1.4 in) in length and 9 mm (0.35 in) in width. Inside the capsule was a rolled, folded, and crumpled silver foil, 91 mm (3.6 in) long. Based on burial goods, including an incense burner and a mug made of baked clay, the burial was dated to between 230 and 270.
[1] The Achaemenid royal inscriptions differ from earlier Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions in their multilingualism , rhetorical style and their structure. [ 2 ] The inscriptions are mostly trilingual – in Old Persian , Elamite and Babylonian , which use two separate scripts (Babylonian and Elamite use variants of the same cuneiform).
Here rests in peace, Maxima a servant of Christ who lived about 25 years and (was) laid (to rest) 9 days before the Kalends of July of the year when the senator Flavius Probus the younger was consul (June 23, 525). [1] She lived with her husband (for) seven years and six months. (She was) most friendly, loyal in everything, good and prudent.
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Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [4] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [5]