The reconstruction is complex and entails many crucial assumptions impossible to discuss here (different interpretation: Vallat 1997); even Tavernier points out that only for a minority of the tablets this process could be envisaged, while according to the common procedure most likely the translation was directly from OP into Elamite.
Summing up, while on many details our vision of the Achaemenid multilingualism is much more advanced than in previous generations of scholars, the overall framework still eludes us.
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FURTHER READING
1 Basello, G.P. (2011). Elamite as administrative language: from Susa to Persepolis. In J. Álvarez‐Mon, M.B. Garrison (eds.), Elam and Persia. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pp. 61–88. Explores areas of continuity that exist between the Elamite tablets from Susa and those from Persepolis through an examination of administrative formulae.
2 Henkelman, W.F.M. (2008). The Other Gods Who Are: Studies in Elamite‐Iranian Acculturation Based on the Persepolis Fortification Texts (Achaemenid History 14). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. Presents four case studies in Elamite‐Iranian acculturation, specifically in the realm of religion, on the basis of the Persepolis Fortification Archive. A long introduction into the Persepolis Fortification Archive completes the volume.
3 Lecoq, P. (1974). Le problème de l’écriture cunéiforme vieux‐perse. Acta Iranica, 3, pp. 25–107. Exhaustive treatment of all problems of the OP script.
4 Malbran‐Labat, F. (1994). La version akkadienne de l’inscription trilingue de Darius à Behistun. Roma: Gruppo editoriale internazionale. The most recent overall analysis of the Babylonian version of Bisotun inscriptions.
5 Rossi, A.V. (2005). La scrittura antico‐persiana e la scrittura elamico‐achemenide. In M. Bernardini, N. Tornesello (eds.), Scritti in onore di Giovanni D’Erme: Saggi di colleghi e amici in occasione del suo compleanno. Napoli: Università L’Orientale, pp. 859–876. Reviews the technical affinities between the two graphical systems.
6 Rossi, A.V. (2008). Antico‐iranico ed elamico achemenide: 1979–2009. Annali dell’Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli, Dipartimento