XPg

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.

XPg, inscription from the Apadana of Persepolis

Inscription XPg was written on an ornamental plaque and on many glazed bricks, which are now in the National Archaeological Museum of Iran in Tehran.

  1. thâtiy \ Xšayâršâ \
  2. xšâyathiya \ vazraka \ vaš
  3. nâ \ Auramazdâha \ vasi
  4. y \ tya \ naibam \ akunau
  5. š \ utâ \ frâmâyatâ \
  6. Dârayavauš \ xšâyathiya
  7. \ hya \ manâ \ pitâ \ vaš
  8. nâpiy \ Auramazdâha
  9. \ adam \ abiyajâvayam
  10. \ abiy \ ava \ kartam \
  11. utâ \ frataram \ akuna
  12. vam \ mâm \ Auramazdâ
  13. \ pâtuv \ hadâ \ bagai
  14. biš \ utamaiy \ xšaçam
Inscription XPg

The great king Xerxes says: By the grace of Ahuramazda, much that had been ordered by king Darius, my father, was well. It was also by the grace of Ahuramazda that I completed these works and made it excellent. May Ahuramazda and the gods protect me and my kingdom!

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