DSi

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.

DSi, inscription on a column base from Susa

[Inscription in Old Persian and Elamite on the base of a column.]

  1. adam \ Dârayavauš XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ XŠyânâm \ XŠ DHnâm \ XŠ a
  2. hyâyâ BUyâ \ Vištâspahyâ \ puça \ Haxâmanišiya \ th
  3. âtiy \ Dârayavauš XŠ \ yathâ \ AM \ mâm \ XŠyam akunauš \
  4. ahyâyâ BUyâ \ vašnâ \ AMha \ visam \ naibam \ akunavam

I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of all nations, king of this earth, the son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid.

King Darius says: when Ahuramazda made me king of this earth, by the grace of Ahuramazda I made everything beautiful.

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