Here I present: Herbert Cushing Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Text”, 1908, PART FOUR (4). INTRODUCTION. The Parthian Empire of PERSIA was established in 247 BC. Parthia PERSIA is shown ABOVE on maps at 200 BC & 100 BC. The Seleucid Empire of GREEKS engaged the Persian PARTHIANS in wars that changed the borders … Continue reading Herbert Cushing Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Text”, 1908, PART FOUR (4).
Here I present: Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART THREE (3). INTRODUCTION. I mentioned “petroglyph” Khomeyn and Golpayegan PERSIA archeological sites in the earlier blog post (shown ABOVE). The transition from “petroglyphs” to cuneiform’ writing in Sumerian’ is the illustration ABOVE. The script of Old/New Persian is a syllabary, easy to memorize, unlike … Continue reading Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART THREE (3).
HereI present: Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART TWO (2). INTRODUCTION. Golpayegan (گلپایگان) PERSIA and Khomeyn (خمين) PERSIA are names associated with prehistoric “petroglyphs”. ABOVE are images from the archeological sites of the Persian Golpayegan & Khomeyn “petroglyphs”. They date back to seven-thousand (7,000) years ago. Linguist Morris Swadesh’ studied similarity … Continue reading Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART TWO (2).
Here I present: Herbert Cushing Tolman, “A Guide to the Old Persian Inscriptions”, 1893, PART TWO (2). INTRODUCTION. On page 174 (shown ABOVE) of Herbert Cushing Tolman, “A Guide to Persian Inscriptions”, 1983 is English “third” and Old Persian “tritiya”. The idea of three (3) is cognate between Old Persian and English. Cognate … Continue reading Herbert Cushing Tolman, “A Guide to the Old Persian Inscriptions”, 1893, PART TWO (2).
Herbert Cushing Tolman, “A Guide to the Old Persian Inscriptions”, 1893 was the topic of an earlier blog post. Here I present: Herbert Cushing Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908. INTRODUCTION. Originally printed in 1908, this text is a preservation of Old Persian inscriptions, such as Behistun, Nakhsh-i Rustam, Suez. The texts are presented … Continue reading Herbert Cushing Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908.
