Darius I 30 (Q007163)
Royal Inscription, Achaemenid, Persepolis · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | Darius I 30 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007163 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Persepolis |
| Coordinates | 29.9353, 52.8894 |
English translation
By ORACC project ario · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:11] Akkadian 11–Akkadian 1111 | Great Ahuramazda, who is the greatest over all the gods, who made the sky and the earth, who made people, who bestowed all prosperity so that people may live by it, who made Darius king, and who gave to King Darius the kingship of this wide earth with many lands in it — Persia, Media, and the other lands and other tongue(s), of the mountains and the plains, of this side of the ocean and the farther side of the ocean, and of this side of the desert and the farther side of the desert. |
| Obverse [11:34] Akkadian 1212– | Darius the King says: by the favor of Ahuramazda these are the lands which made this which is made here: Persia, Media and the other lands and other tongue(s), of the mountains and the plains, on this side of the ocean and on the farther side of the ocean, on this side of the desert and on the farther side of the desert — according to what order I gave them. What I made, all by the favor of Ahuramazda I made. Me may Ahuramazda protect along with all the gods, me and whom I love. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| Akkadian | ||
| 1 | {d}u-ru-ma-az-da ra-bi ša₂ ra-bu-u₂ ina muh-hi DINGIR.MEŠ gab-bi | |
| 2 | ša₂ AN-e u KI-tim ib-nu-u₂ UN.MEŠ ib-nu-u₂ ša₂ dum-qi₂ | |
| 3 | gab-bi id-din-nu-ma UN.MEŠ ina lib₃-bi bal-ṭu-ʾ ša₂ a-⸢na⸣ | |
| 4 | {m}da-a-ri-ia-muš LUGAL ib-nu-u₂ u a-na {m}da-a-ri-ia-muš | |
| 5 | LUGAL LUGAL-u₂-tu id-din-nu ina qaq-qar a-ga-a rap-ša₂-a-tum | |
| 6 | ša₂ KUR.KUR.MEŠ ma-di-e-tum ina lib₃-bi-šu₂ KUR par-su | |
| 7 | KUR ma-da-a-a u KUR.KUR.MEŠ ša₂-ni-ti-ma li-ša₂-nu | |
| 8 | ša₂-ni-tum ša₂ KUR.MEŠ u ma-a-tum ša₂ a-ha-na-a-a | |
| 9 | a-ga-a ša₂ {id₂}mar-ra-tum u a-hu-ul-lu-a-a | |
| 10 | ul-li-i ša₂ {id₂}mar-ra-tum ša₂ a-ha-na-a-a | |
| 11 | a-ga-a ša₂ qaq-qar ṣu-ma-ma-i-tum u a-hu-ul-lu-a-a ul-li-i | |
| 12 | ša₂ qaq-qar ṣu-ma-ma-i-tum {m}da-a-ri-ia-muš LUGAL | |
| 13 | i-qab-bi ina GIŠ.MI ša₂ {d}u₂-ru-ma-az-da a-ga-⸢an-ni⸣-tum | |
| 14 | KUR.KUR.MEŠ ša₂ a-ga-a i-pu-ša₂-ʾ ša₂ a-kan-na ib-šu₂ | |
| 15 | KUR par-su KUR ma-da-a-a u KUR.KUR.MEŠ ša₂-ni-ti-ma | |
| 16 | li-ša₂-nu ša₂-ni-tum ša₂ KUR.MEŠ u ma-a-tum ša₂ a-ha-na-a-a | |
| 17 | a-ga-a ša₂ {id₂}mar-ra-tum u a-hu-ul-lu-a-a ul-li-i | |
| 18 | ša₂ {id₂}mar-ra-tum u a-ha-na-a-a a-ga-a ša₂ qaq-qar | |
| 19 | ṣu-ma-ma-i-tum u a-hu-ul-lu-a-a ul-li-i | |
| 20 | ša₂ qaq-qar ṣu-ma-ma-i-tum lib₃-bu-u₂ ša₂ a-na-ku | |
| 21 | ṭe₃-e-me aš-ku-un-nu-uš-šu₂-nu [ša₂ a]-⸢na-ku⸣ | |
| 22 | e-pu-uš gab-bi ina GIŠ.MI ša₂ {d}u₂-[ru]-⸢ma-az-da⸣ | |
| 23 | e-te-pu-uš a-na-ku {d}u₂-ru-ma-[az-da li-iṣ]-⸢ṣu-ur⸣ | |
| 24 | it-ti DINGIR.MEŠ gab-bi a-na ana-ku u a-na ša₂ a-⸢na-ku⸣ a-ra-⸢mu⸣ | |
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