Caylus vase
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caylus-vase-236-10544654
title:
Caylus vase
text:
The Caylus vase is an Egyptian alabaster jar dedicated in the name of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I in Egyptian hieroglyphs and Old Persian cuneiform, which in 1823 played an important role in the modern decipherment of cuneiform and the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts. Beyond its historical value as a dynastic artifact of Achaemenid Egypt, its quadrilingual inscription was also the key element in confirming the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform by Grotefend, through the reading of t
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Egyptian alabaster jar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caylus_vase
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2024-02-21T06:03:05Z
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