Uma inscrição em cuneiforme persa no“Salão Assyrio” no Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (1909)

Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araujo; Alex Mazzanti Jr.

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.15855

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Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araujo Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4500-8279
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Supervision
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Writing – Review & Editing
Alex Mazzanti Jr. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-9672
- Writing – Review & Editing
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Visualization
- Validation
- Supervision
- Methodology
- Investigation
- Formal Analysis
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.15855

Keywords:

Orientalism, Salão Assyrio, Achaemenid Persia, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This paper aims to offer a translation of the Old Persian cuneiform inscription at the Rio de Janeiro's Assyrian Hall (“Salão Assyrio”), inaugurated on 14 July 1909. The authors examine the cuneiform inscription across three analytical levels: (i) its place in the history of the reception of Ancient Near Eastern antiquities in Europe and the Americas from the 19^th to the 20^th centuries; (ii) its role within the decorative program of the Assyrian Hall; and (iii) the philological and epigraphical aspects of the text. The authors conclude that this inscription was an adaptation based on other inscriptions known to European scholars since the 19^th century, probably following a model of a previous Parisian composition produced by the Grès Muller Company.