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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: DSy
  In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, the Aryan script, was to be developed. This was used for a small corpus of inscriptions, known as the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions. An overview of all inscriptions can be found here.
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Inscription DSy in the National Archaeological Museum, Tehran (Iran). Photo Marco Prins.
Inscription DSy (National 
Archaeological Museum,
Tehran) 

DSv, inscription on a column base from Susa

Inscription in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian, written on a column base, which is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Tehran. The text is identical to DSb (where you will find a drawing).
  1. adam \ Dârayavauš XŠ \ vazraka XŠ XŠyânâm
  2. XŠ DHyunâm XŠ \ ahyâyâ BUyâ \ Vi
  3. štâspahyâ \ puça \ Haxâmanišiya
I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, king of all nations, king of this earth, son of Hystaspes, the Achaemenid.
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