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Old Persian

Dictionary

• Ancient Persian lexicon & The texts of the Achaemenidan inscriptions, transliterated and translated, by Herbert Cushing Tolman (1908)

• Cuneiform supplement, with brief historical synopsis of the language, by Edwin Lee Johnson (1910)

• Vocabulary of the ancient persian language: all the words which occur in the persian cuneiform inscriptions, with a few brief etymological explanations, by Henry Rawlinson, in Memoir on cuneiform inscription (1849)

• Altiranisches Wörterbuch by Christian Bartolomae (1904)

• Graeco-Persian names by Alvin Stonecipher (1918)

Old Persian language

→ Old Persian keyboard to type a text with the Old Persian cuneiforms

• University of Texas: Old Iranian

• Old Persian by Rüdiger Schmitt, in The ancient languages of Asia and the Americas (2008)

• An introduction to Old Persian by Prods Oktor Skjærvø (2020)

• Old Persian, grammar, texts, lexicon, by Roland Kent (1950)

• Historical grammar of the ancient Persian language by Edwin Lee Johnson (1917)

• Grammar of the Old Persian with the inscriptions of the Achæmenian kings & vocabulary, by Herbert Cushing Tolman (1892)

• Grammaire du vieux perse: Old Persian grammar, by Antoine Meillet & Émile Benveniste (1931)

• Études iraniennes by James Darmesteter (1883): I (studies about the historical grammar of the Persian language) & II (studies about the language, literature, beliefs in Ancient Persia)

• Les langues perdues de la Perse (the lost languages of Persia) by Joachim Ménant (1885)

• Handbuch der altiranischen Dialekte: compared grammar of Iranian dialects & glossary, by Christian Bartolomae (1883)

• Books about Old Persian: Google books & Internet archive

The Old Persian language

The Old Persian is the language of the Achaemenid Empire (6^th-4^th century BC).

Texts & Inscriptions

• Livius: Achaemenid royal inscriptions, with translation

• The Behistun inscription

• Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus: Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions online

• Avesta-Zoroastrian Archives: Old Persian texts, transliterated with translation

• Les inscriptions de la Perse achémenide et leurs traductions by Nazila Khalkhali, dissertation (2011)

• Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide, translated into French from Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Aramaic, annotated by Pierre Lecoq (1997)

• A guide to the Old Persian inscriptions by Herbert Cushing Tolman (1893): I & II (Some critical and supplementary notes)

• The Behistan inscription of King Darius: translation and critical notes to the Persian text (1908)

• The Persian cuneiform inscription at Behistun, decyphered and translated by Henry Rawlinson (1846)

• Cuneiform inscriptions of Van by Archibald Henry Sayce (1865)

• Die altpersischen Keilinschriften im Grundtexte mit Übersetzung, Grammatik und Glossar, by Friedrich von Spiegel (1862)

• Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden by Franz Heinrich Weissbach (1911)

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