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 for an edition in the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum series. They add to the only documentation available until now (Ernst Herzfeld's drawings). The texts 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 treated in the required detail as on the basis of the present state of Old Persian textual studies.