DSk

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.

DSk, inscription on a brick from Susa

[Old Persian inscription on a baked clay brick.]

  1. adam \ Dârayavauš \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ \ XŠy
  2. ânâm \ XŠ \ DHnâm \ Vištâspahyâ \
  3. puça \ Haxâmanišiya \ thâtiy \ Dâ
  4. rayavauš \ XŠ \ manâ \ AM \ AMha \ adam \ Amm \
  5. ayadaiy \ AMmaiy \ upastâm \ baratuv

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

King Darius says: Ahuramazda is mine and I am Ahuramazda's. I worshipped Ahuramazda. May Ahuramazda help me!

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