Syllabus
Françoise Grillot-Susini - Clarisse Herrenschmidt - Florence Malbran-Labat, „La version élamite de la trilingue de Behistun: une nouvelle lecture“, Journal Asiatique 271 (1993), 19-59.
Walter Hinz, Neue Wege im Altpersischen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [Göttinger Orientforschungen III/1], 1973.
Walter Hinz, „Die Die Behistan-Inschrift des Darius in ihrer ursprünglichen Fassung“, Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran NF 7 (1974), 121-134.
Rüdiger Schmitt, „Zur babylonischen Version der Bisutun-Inschrift“, Archiv für Orientforschung 27 (1980), 106-126.
Petr Vavroušek, „Vojevůdci Dareia I.“, Chatreššar 1999-2000, 31-46.
Elisabeth N. Voigtlander, The Bisitun Version of Darius the Great. Babylonian Version, London: Lund Humphries [Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum I/2] 1978, 63-64..
Annotation
Classification: active participation in class and final test.
Annotation: The lecture will focus on both the famous inscription itself and on its broader context.
Historical context: history of the Persian Empire under the Teispids and Achaemenids.
Gradual materialization of the inscription; placement of the inscription; the key role of the inscription in the decipherment of the cuneiform languages; ancient predecessors (mostly Elamite and Mesopotamian reliefs, monumental inscriptions, inscriptions with reliefs); comparision with the creation of another new scripts; a description of the historical situation and its credibility; king Dareios according of the ancient authors; figures on the relief; translation of the inscription into other languages.