EPIGRAPHY, the study of inscriptions, particularly their collection, decipherment, interpretation, dating, and classification.

i. Old Persian and Middle Iranian epigraphy

ii. Greek inscriptions from ancient Iran

iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia

iv. Safavid and later inscriptions

v. Inscriptions from the Indian subcontinent

vi. Ossetic epigraphy. See OSSETIC.

vii. Early Persian epigraphy. See SUPPLEMENT.

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Originally Published: December 15, 1998

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