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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: XPe
  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.
 

XPe, inscription from the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis

Text of fourteen inscriptions in three languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian) from the Palace of Xerxes.

  1. Xšayâršâ \ xšâyathiya \ vazra
  2. ka \ xšâyathiya \ xšâyathiyâ
  3. nâm \ Dârayavahauš \ xšâyath
  4. iyahyâ \ puça \ Haxâmanišiya \
Xerxes, the great king, king of kings, 
son of king Darius, the Achaemenid.
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