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Artaxerxes I 02 (Q007251)

Royal Inscription, Achaemenid, Persepolis · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE

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DesignationArtaxerxes I 02
IDQ007251
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodAchaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotPersepolis
Coordinates29.9353, 52.8894

English translation

By ORACC project ario · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:12] Akkadian 11–Artaxerxes the King says: This house — Xerxes the King, my father, laid its foundations. By the favor of Ahuramazada I, Artaxerxes the King, I built and completed (it).

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
Akkadian
1{m}ar-ta-ak-ša₂-as-su
2LUGAL i-qab-bi E₂ a-ga-a
3{m}hi-ši-ʾ-ar-ša₂-ʾ
4LUGAL AD-u₂-a at-tu-u₂-a
5UŠ₈-šu₂ it-ta-du
e.a
6ina GIŠ.MI ša₂
r
7{d}a-hu-ru-ma-az-
8da-ʾ a-na-ku
9{m}ar-ta-ak-ša₂-as-su
10LUGAL e-te-pu-uš
11u ul-tak-lil

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