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Old Persian cuneiform script

Old Persian Cuneiform
Behistun DB1 1-15.jpg
Type
Languages Old Persian
Time period
525 BC – 330 BC
Parent systems
none; apparently inspired by Cuneiform script
  • Old Persian Cuneiform
Direction Left-to-right
ISO 15924 Xpeo, 030
Unicode alias
Old Persian

U+103A0–U+103D5

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U+103A0–U+103D5

Download "Behistun", a free Old Persian Cuneiform Unicode font, install and refresh the page: http://www.fontspace.com/fereydoun/behistun

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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 Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Armenia, Romania (Gherla), and along the Suez Canal. They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius I and his son, Xerxes I. Later kings down to Artaxerxes III used more recent forms of the language classified as "pre-Middle Persian".

Old Persian cuneiform is loosely inspired by the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform; however, only one glyph, l(a) (...
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