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Pyramidal weight in polished diorite

The inscription of Darius I is in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian. The Old Persian inscription reads, ‘2 karsha. I [am] Darius, the great king, the son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian.’ Two karshas equal one third of a Babylonian mina.

Said to come from Hillah, Iraq
Catalogue no. 300
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