Old Persian cuneiform
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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 Iran (Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Kharg Island), Armenia, Romania (Gherla),[1][2][3] Turkey (Van Fortress), and along the Suez Canal.[4] They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius I, such as the DNa inscription, as well as his son, Xerxes I. Later kings down to Artaxerxes III used more recent forms of the language classified as "pre-Middle Persian".[4]
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Old Persian cuneiform | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 525 BC – 330 BC |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Old Persian |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Xpeo (030), Old Persian |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Old Persian |
U+103A0–U+103D5
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