XSd
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.
XSd, inscription on column bases in the Great Gate of Susa
The text on these square column bases is in three languages: Old Persian and, around the corner, Elamite and Babylonian.
King Xerxes says: By the grace of Ahuramazda, king Darius, my father, built this portico.
Literature
- Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide (1997 Paris)