A2Sb

Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.

A2Sb, inscription on column bases from Susa

[Old Persian inscription on fragments of several column bases; Elamite and Babylonian translations added.]

  1. adam \ Artaxšaçâ \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ XŠyânâ \ XŠ \ Dârayavauš \ XŠhyâ \ puça

I am Artaxerxes, the great king, the king of kings, the king, the son of king Darius.

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