Gian Pietro Basello. “Old Persian on Clay”

This article mainly studies the archaeological context of the oversized clay tablet Louvre Sb 2789, an exemplar of the Old Persian version of the Achaemenid royal inscription DSf, searching for its function(s). G.P Basello believes that Sb 2789 could be a foundation document paired with the Elamite and Babylonian stone tables DSz and DSaa (to complete each other both for the language and the content) and they were intentionally buried as permanent records of the building activities of king Da..