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Prods Oktor Skjærvø’s Introduction to Old Persian

January 12, 2014January 12, 2014 Deane Electronic books, Languages, Persian

Prods Oktor Skjærvø’s book An Introduction to Old Persian (2002) is available for free online, on the Harvard website. The book provides an introduction to the form of Persian found in inscriptions from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE.

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