A1Pb

Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.

A1Pb, Babylonian inscription from the Hall of Hundred Columns, Persepolis

[Babylonian inscription on a slab of stone.]

King Artaxerxes says: My father, king Xerxes, laid the foundations of this palace.

With the protection of Ahuramazda, I, king Artaxerxes, have finished it.

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