Editing Behistun Inscription (section)

==Similar reliefs and inspiration==
[[File:Anubanini rock relief woodprint.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Anubanini rock relief]], dated to 2300 BC, and made by the pre-Iranian [[Lullubi]] ruler [[Anubanini]], is very similar in content to the Behistun reliefs (woodprint).]]
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The [[Anubanini rock relief]], also called Sarpol-i Zohab, of the [[Lullubi]] king [[Anubanini]], dated to {{circa|2300 BC}}, and which is located not far from the Behistun reliefs at [[Sarpol-e Zahab]], is very similar to the reliefs at Behistun. The attitude of the ruler, the trampling of an enemy, the lines of prisoners are all very similar, to such extent that it was said that the sculptors of the Behistun Inscription had probably seen the Anubanini relief beforehand and were inspired by it.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Potts |first1=D. T. |title=The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State |date=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521564960 |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mc4cfzkRVj4C&pg=PA318 |language=en |access-date=2019-03-15 |archive-date=2017-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012050532/https://books.google.com/books?id=mc4cfzkRVj4C |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Lullubi]]an reliefs were the model for the Behistun reliefs of [[Darius the Great]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiesehofer |first1=Josef |title=Ancient Persia |date=2001 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=9781860646751 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFocMaM49SgC&pg=PA13 |language=en |access-date=2019-03-17 |archive-date=2012-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502163656/http://books.google.com/books?id=yFocMaM49SgC |url-status=live }}</ref>

The inscriptional tradition of the Achaemenids, starting especially with [[Darius I]], is thought to have derived from the traditions of [[Elam]], [[Lullubi]], the [[Babylonians]] and the [[Assyria]]ns.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eastmond |first1=Antony |title=Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107092419 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uJwBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |language=en |access-date=2019-03-16 |archive-date=2020-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518234133/https://books.google.com/books?id=5uJwBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |url-status=live }}</ref>