Xerxes I 28 (Q007232)
Royal Inscription, Achaemenid, Susa · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | Xerxes I 28 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007232 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Susa |
| Coordinates | 32.1892, 48.2578 |
English translation
By ORACC project ario · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] Akkadian 11–Akkadian 2'2' | I (am) Xerxes, great king, king of kings, king of lands, king of this earth, son of king Darius, an Achaemenid. |
| Obverse [2:5] Akkadian 2'2'–Akkadian 4'4' | Proclaims Xerxes the great king: All that I have done here and what I have done elsewhere on this earth was done by my hand; all that I have done, I have done by the favour of Ahuramazda. |
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 | [a-na-ku hi-ši-iʾ-ar-ši ša]-ar-ri ra-bu-u₂ [ša-ar-ri ša-ar-ra-a-ni ša-ar-ri KUR.MEŠ] | |
| 2 | [ša-ar-ri qaq-qa-ri ma-ri] da-a-ri-ia-mu-[uš LUGAL a-ha-man-ni-ši-iʾ] | |
| 2' | [... hi-ši-iʾ-ar-ši] | |
| 3' | [ša-ar-ri ra-bu-u₂ i-gab-bi mi]-im-ma gab-bi ma-[la a-na-ku a-gan-na e-pu-šu₂] | |
| 4' | [u ina qaq-qa-ri ša-nam-ma e]-⸢te⸣-pu-šu₂ ina qa-ti-[ia i-ni-ti-ir ša₂ a-na-ku e-pu-uš gab-bi] | |
| 5' | [ina GIŠ.MI {d}a-hu-ur-ma-az-da-aʾ] e-te-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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