An ancient Egyptian alabastron inscribed to the Achaemenid King Xerxes (486–465 BCE) quadrilingually—in Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and hieroglyphic Egyptian—and it includes an addendum in demotic Egyptian that gives the capacity of the vessel in a Persian unit of measurement [1247×2396]
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Now housed at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Spectacular. Thanks to these multilingual pieces, we can translate better.
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