XPi

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.

XPi, inscription on a doorknob from Persepolis

Brief inscription, in Old Persian and Elamite, from the Palace of king Xerxes, and found in the Queen's Quarters.

  1. mayûxa \ kâsakaina \ Xšayâršâha \ XŠhyâ \ vithiyâ \ karta

Door knob made of lapis lazuli made in the palace of king Xerxes.

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