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.
[King Darius the Great was buried at Naqš-e Rustam. The inscriptions on the upper and central registers of his tomb (DNa and DNb) are well-known, but there are several smaller texts on the same monument: two trilingual honorific inscriptions for the courtiers Gobryas and Aspathines, and inscriptions on the figures supporting Darius' throne. Because inscription DNe mentions the Macedonians as subjects, it can be dated after 512.]
Naqš-e Rustam, General view
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Naqš-e Rustam, Tomb of Darius the Great (with a Sasanian relief of Bahram II)
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Naqš-e Rustam, Tomb of Darius the Great, Upper relief
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DNe, indications of people
- iyam \ Pârsâ
- iyam \ Mâda
- iyam \ Uvja
- iyam \ Parthava
- iyam \ Haraiva
- iyam \ Baxtriya
- iyam \ Suguda
- iyam \ Uvârazmiya
- iyam \ Zrakâ
- iyam \ Harauvatiya
- iyam \ Thataguiya
- iyam \ Gadâraya
- iyam \ Hiduya
- iyam \ Sakâ \ haumavargâ
- iyam \ Sakâ \ tigraxaudâ
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- iyam \ Bâbiruš
- iyam \ Athuriya
- iyam \ Arabâya
- iyam \ Mudrâya
- iyam \ Arminiya
- iyam \ Katpatuka
- imay \ Spardiya
- iyam \ Yaunâ
- iyam \ Sakâ \ paradraiya
- iyam \ Skudra
- iyam \ Yauna \ takabarâ
- iyam \ Putâya
- iyam \ Kušâya
- iyam \ Maciya
- iyam \ Karka
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- This is the Persian.
- This is the Mede.
- This is the Elamite.
- This is the Parthian.
- This is the Arian.
- This is the Bactrian.
- This is the Sogdian.
- This is the Chorasmian.
- This is the Drangian.
- This is the Arachosian.
- This is the Sattagydian.
- This is the Gandaran.
- This is the man of Sind.
- This is the haoma-drinking Saca.
- This is the Saca with the pointed hat.
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- This is the Babylonian.
- This is the Syrian.
- This is the Arab.
- This is the Egyptian.
- This is the Armenian.
- This is the Cappadocian.
- This is the Lydian.
- This is the Greek.
- This is the Scythian from across the sea.
- This is the Thracian.
- This is the Macedonian.
- This is the Libyan.
- This is the Kushite.
- This is the man of Maka.
- This is the Carian.
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Literature
- Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide (1997 Paris)