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Akkadian brick in Old Persian (1)

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Glazed bricks
07 Crafts and economy
07.02 Glassmaking and glazing
07.02.04 Glazing
07.02.04.01 Glazed bricks
Mesopotamian loanwords in Iranian
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.05 Mesopotamian loanwords
11.01.05.05.04 Mesopotamian loanwords in Iranian

Keywords
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Persian language

Period
Achaemenid Empire

Channel
Iranian culture

Text
Akkadian agurru “kiln-fired brick” occurs in the Old Persian inscription of Darius at Susa (DSf 53): “the men who wrought the baked brick, those were Babylonians”.

Bibliography

Kent 1953, 144

Kent, R. G. Old Persian. Grammar, Texts, Lexicon. New Haven: American Oriental Society 1953.

Andrea Piras

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