Sardis bilingual inscription
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Sardis bilingual inscription
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The Sardis bilingual inscription is a 4th-century BCE bilingual Lydian-Aramaic funerary inscription discovered in 1912, during the investigation by the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis. It was found in Sardis, in Manisa, Turkey. It was the "Rosetta Stone" for the decipherment of the Lydian language. The Aramaic inscription begins by stating the date as the tenth year of Artaxerxes, considered to be Artaxerxes II, such that the inscription has been dated by scholars to 394 BCE. It is
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