XPk

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.

XPk, inscription on a relief from Persepolis

This inscription can be read on Xerxes' garment on a relief. It is written in Old Persian and Elamite.

  1. Xšayâršâ \ Dârayavahauš \ XŠyâ\ puça \ Haxâmanišiya

Xerxes, son of king Darius, the Achaemenid.

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