Jar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages

Jar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The inscription reads "Xerxes, the Great King" in four languages--Egyptian, Old Persian, Elamite, and Neo-Babylonian--using two different scripts, hieroglyphs and cuneiform.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languagesJar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languagesJar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languagesJar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languagesJar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.