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Egyptian calcite oil-jar inscribed with a trilingual royal inscription of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I. Achaemenid period, 485-465 BC, from Susa, Iran. British Museum, London. The text is written in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.

Egyptian calcite oil-jar inscribed with a trilingual royal inscription of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I. Achaemenid period, 485-465 BC, from Susa, Iran. British Museum, London. The text is written in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Egyptian_calcite_jar_from_Susa%2C_Iran._The_name_of_the_Achaemenid_king_Xerxes_I_is_inscribed_in_cuneiform._485-465_BCE._British_Museum.jpg

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