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Ganj Nameh

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Sep 29, 2025 10:17 AM — History
Ganj Nameh (or Gandj Nameh) is a site located approximately 12 km southwest of Ecbatana. Two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions are to be found here. One of these was ordered by Darius the Great (r.  522–486 BCE) and the other by his son, Xerxes the Great (r.  486–465 BCE).

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903032

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archaeological site, monument

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 92 D2 Ganj Nameh

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ganj Nameh, rock inscription


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A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Ganj Nameh: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903032> [accessed: 14 February 2026] 

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