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.
	
		|  Persepolis, Tomb of Artaxerxes II Mnemon |  Persepolis, Tomb of Artaxerxes II Mnemon |  A2Pa (drawing) |  | 
	
		
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				iyam \ Pârsâiyam \ Mâdaiyam \ Uvjaiyam \ Parthava[iyam \ Haraivaiyam \ Baxtriyaiyam \ Suguda]iyam \ Uvârazmiyaiyam \ Zrakâiyam \ Harauvatiyaiyam \ Thataguiyaiyam \ Gadârayaiyam \ Hiduyaiyam \ Sakâ \ haumavargâiyam \ Sakâ \ tigraxaudâiyam \ Bâbirušiyam \ Athuriyaiyam \ Arabâyaiyam \ Mudrâyaiyam \ Arminiyaiyam \ Katpatukaimay \ Spardiyaiyam \ Yaunâiyam \ Sakâ \ paradraiyaiyam \ Skudraiyam \ Yauna \ takabarâiyam \ Putâyaiyam \ Kušâyaiyam \ Maciyaiyam \ Karka | 
				This is the Persian.This is the Mede.This is the Elamite.This is the Parthian.[This is the Arian.This is the Bactrian.This is the Sogdian.]This is the Chorasmian.This is the Drangian.This is the Arachosian.This is the Sattagydian.This is the Gandaran.This is the man of Sind.This is the haoma-drinking Saca.This is the Saca with the pointed hat.This is the Babylonian.This is the Syrian.This is the Arab.This is the Egyptian.This is the Armenian.This is the Cappadocian.This is the Lydian.This is the Greek.This is the Scythian from across the sea.This is the Thracian.This is the Macedonian.This is the Libyan.This is the Nubian.This is the man of Maka.This is the Carian. | 
	
Literature
	- Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide (1997 Paris)