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An Achaemenid Royal Inscription from Hamadan
  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.
 
Column base from Ecbatana. Photo Marco Prins.
The column base in the
Hamadan museum

A recently discovered inscription on a column base from Ecbatana

[Old Persian inscription on a column base made of black diorite, mentioning a terrace built by a king named Artaxerxes (probably Artaxerxes II Mnemon, 404-358). The column base was excacated in 2000.]
This terrace Artaxerxes raised upon stony columns...
May Ahuramazda and the other gods protect him...
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