期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2004
卷号：XXXV Part B5
页码：530-535
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Documentations made by Dariush I, King of the Kings, the great emperor of Persia (500 BC) are the largest inscriptions in the world including 1200 lines of about 2 meters length. These inscriptions written in Old Persian, that were simultaneously translated into Elamite and Babylonian, narrate the victories of Dariush over the rebellious rulers of the kingdom. This magnificent monument is carved on the stone wall of the holy mount of Bisotun in the western part of Iran. The monument was made at a height of about 80 meters above the road which made it almost impossible for anybody to get access to it. There has been a tendency since 450 years ago to decode these texts and record the relieves. In 1834, Rawlinson, hanging himself form the top of the mount, attempted to make a hand-recording and decoding of the entire monument which lasted 20 years. He could finally decode the old Persian language for the first time. Following this work, Thompson and Cameron tried to perform some restoration and correction works by means of photography and moulding. The new stage of this documentation process is the photogrammetric technique. For a long time, the photogrammetric documentation of this valuable and unique monument was investigated and desired by the authorities of the Iranian Organization of Cultural Heritage, but the dangerous situation of this monument that made the geodetic and photogrammetric operation very difficult, was a major reason for Iranian and foreign companies to not accept the photogrammetric documentation of this monument. This paper gives a scientific report on how this great job of " Documentation " was done within an academic project. All relieves, more than 120000 elements of the inscriptions and the surrounding objects and area were photogrammetrically documented and recorded with a precision of about 1 mm
