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The Behistun inscription
Relief at Behistun. Photo Ab Langereis. The Behistun relief
 Behistun or Bisotun: town in Iran, site of several ancient monuments, including a famous inscription by the Persian king Darius I the Great (522- 486 BCE), the great organizer of the Achaemenid empire.

On these pages, you can find drawings, a translitteration and an adapted version of the King/Thompson translation of the inscription.

  
 

Column 5, lines 11-17
  1. âva \ Gaubaruva \ Ûvjiyâ \ avâja \ viyamarda \
  2. utâ \ tyamšâm \ mathištam \ agarbâya \ anaya \ abi
  3. y \ mâm \ utâšim \ adam \ avâjanam \ pasâva \ dahyâ
  4. uš \ manâ \ abava \ thâtiy Dârayavauš \ xšâyathi
  5. ya \ avaiy \ Ûvjiyâ \ arikâ \ âha \ utâšâm \ Aurama
  6. zdâ \ naiy \ ayadiya \ Auramazdâm \ ayadaiy \ vašnâ \ A
  7. uramazdâha \ yathâ \ mâm \ kâma \ avathâdiš \ akunavam
  (71a) Then Gobryas destroyed many of the host and that Atamaita, their leader, he captured, and he brought him unto me, and I killed him. Then the province became mine.

(72) King Darius says:  Those Elamites were faithless and Ahuramazda was not worshipped by them. I worshipped Ahuramazda; by the grace of Ahuramazda I did unto them according to my will.
to Column 5, lines 18-26
 
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