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peoOld Persian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Old Persian language is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan). Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets, and seals of the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BCE to 300 BCE). Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now present-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt the most important attestation by far being the contents of the Behistun Inscription (dated to 525 BCE). Recent research into the vast Persepolis Fortification Archive at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago have unearthed Old Persian tablets (2007). This new text shows that the Old Persian language was a written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display.

Entry terms

  • Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
  • Old Persian language
  • Persian, Old (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
  • Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • peo

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • peo

ISO 639-3 code

  • peo

Notation

  • peo

In other languages

  • Vieux-perse

    French

  • persan ancien
  • perse, vieux (ca. 600-400 av. J.-C.)
  • Altpersisch

    German

  • Altpersische Sprache
  • persiano antico

    Italian

  • Lingua persiana antica
  • persa arcaico

    Portuguese

  • Língua persa antiga
  • persa antiguo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/peo

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