DPh

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.

DPh, four tablets from Persepolis

[The following text, identical to DH, was found on two golden and two silver tablets, which were discovered in a box in the northeastern corner of the Apadana.]

  1. Dârayavauši \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ XŠyanâm \ XŠ
  2. \ dahyûvnâm \ Vištâspahyâ \ puça
  3. \ Haxâmanišiya \ thâtiy \ Dârayavau
  4. š \ XŠ \ ima \ xšaçam \ tya \ adam \ dâray
  5. âmiy \ hacâ \ Sakaibiš \ tyaiy \ para
  6. \ Sugdam \ amata \ yâtâ \ â \ Kûšâ \
  7. hacâ \ Hidauv \ amata \ yâtâ \ â \ Spa
  8. rdâ \ tyamaiy \ Auramazdâ \ frâbara
  9. \ hya \ mathišta \ bagânâm \ mâm \ Au
  10. ramazdâ \ pâtuv \ utâmaiy \ vitham

Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid.

King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind to Lydia - [this is] what Ahuramazda, the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. May Ahuramazda protect me and my royal house!

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