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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.
 
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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