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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.
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The following text was written on the window corniches - as if the windows are speaking to the reader - in the Palace of Darius in Persepolis. It was written in three languages (Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian); the Persian text is below.
Literature
- Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide (1997 Paris)
ardastâna \ athagaina \ Dârayavauš \ xšhyâ \ vithiyâ \ karta
A stone window frame from the house of king Darius