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The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r.
Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525 kilometers (326 mi) west of Tehran . Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great
The Behistun inscription, the longest and perhaps the most famous of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions.. The Achaemenid royal inscriptions are the surviving inscriptions in cuneiform script from the Achaemenid Empire, dating from the 6th to 4th century BCE (reigns of Cyrus II to Artaxerxes III).
The Farhād Tarāsh (Persian: فرهاد تراش), or Tarāsh-e Farhād, [1] is a long smoothed rock surface on Mount Behistun in western Iran. Located near the famous Behistun Inscription, its height is around 30 meters and its width is around 200 meters. [1] The retaining wall in front of it is c. 150 meters. [1]
The Statue of Hercules in Behistun (or Statue of Heracles/Herakles in Bisotun, Persian: تندیس هرکول) is located on Mount Behistun, Iran. It was discovered in 1958, [ 1 ] and is the only extant rock sculpture from the period of Seleucid control over the Iranian Plateau , that lasted from c. 312 BC to c. 140/139 BC.
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In the Behistun Inscription (c. 522 BC) refer to Armenia and Armenians as synonyms of Urartu and Urartians. [36] The toponym Urartu did not disappear, however, as the name of the province of Ayrarat in the center of the Kingdom of Armenia is believed to be its continuum. [60] Urartian royal tomb. Van citadel, 1973
Sketch of the rock relief portraying Mithridates II and four grandees at Mount Behistun. At Mount Behistun in western Iran, there is a rock relief which depicts four figures paying respect to a fifth figure. [18] The relief, along with its Greek inscription, heavily damaged, was partly reconstructed by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (d ...