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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: XSa
  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.
 

XSa, inscription on column bases from Susa

Old Persian inscription on numerous fragments of a column base; translations in Elamite and Babylonian.

  1. thâtiy \ Xšayâršâ \ xšâyathiya \ vašnâ \ Auramazdâha \ ima \
  2. hadiš \ Dârayavauš \ xšâyathiya \ akunauš \ hya \ manâ \ pitâ
King Xerxes says: By the grace of Ahuramazda, king Darius, my father, built this palace.
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