Old Persian cuneiform script
| Old Persian Cuneiform |
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| Languages | Old Persian |
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Time period
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525 BC – 330 BC |
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Parent systems
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none; apparently inspired by Cuneiform script
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| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Xpeo, 030 |
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Unicode alias
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Old Persian |
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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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