On two Xerxes inscriptions (Old Persian)

Presented here for the first time are photographs of two minor Old Persian texts of King Xerxes found in the materials collected by Emile Benveniste f or an edition in the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum series. They add to th e only documentation available until now (Ernst Herzfeld's drawings). The t exts in question are XPk, on the garment of a royal figure from Persepolis, and XH (better XHa), on a silver pitcher from Hamadan. Both texts are trea ted in the required detail as on the basis of the present state of Old Pers ian textual studies.