DZc

Darius Suez C

Dating: 500 bC

Text

Language: elamite

Transliteration

Style: weissbach

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[^an]na-ap ir-[ša-ir]-ra ^anu-ra-mas-da ak-ka ^anki-ik hu-be be-iš-da [ak-k]a mu-ru-un hi be-iš-da [ak-ka ^Iruh^id be-iš-
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da ak-ka ši-ia-t]i-um be-iš-da ^Iruh.id-ir-ra-na ak-ka ^Ida-ri-ia-ma-u-iš ^Isunkuk ir hu-ut-taš-d]a ak-ka ^Ida-ri-ia-ma-u-
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iš ^Isunkuk-na ^I]sunkuk-me du-na-iš ap-pa ir-ša-an-na ap-pa Anšu.Kur.Ra^id [a-a]k ^Iruh^id š[i-i]š-n[i ] taš [^Iú ^Ida-ri-ia-ma-u-iš ^Isunkuk
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ir-ša-ir-ra ^I]sunkuk ^Isunkuk-ip-in-na ^Isunkuk ^Ida-a-ú-iš mi-iš-ba-[za-na-aš-be-na ^Isunkuk ⁼mu-ru-un hi uk-ku-ma ir-ša-an-na]
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pi-ra-ša-d[a-ni-ka ha-te ^I]mi-iš-da-aš-ba ^Iša-ak-ri ^Iha-ak-ka-man-nu-ši-i[a a-ak ^Ida-ri-ia-ma-u-iš ^Isunkuk na-an-ri
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... mar]-ri ^Iú še-ra hi ...

Language: persian

Transcription

Style: Kent

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baga : vazraka : Auramazdâ : hya : avam : asmânam : adâ : hya : imâm : bûm
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im : adâ : hya : martiyam : adâ : hya : šiyâtim : adâ : martiyahy
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â : hya : Dârayavaum : XŠyam : akunauš : hya : Dârayavahauš : XŠyâ : xšaça
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m : frâbara : tya : vazrakam : tya : uvaspam : umartiyam : adam : Dârayavauš :
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XŠ : vazraka : XŠ : XŠyânâm : XŠ : dahyûnâm : vispazanânâm : XŠ : ahyây
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â : bûmiyâ : vazrakâyâ : dûraiy : apiy : Vištâspahyâ : puça : Ha
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xâmanišiya : þâtiy : Dârayavauš : XŠ : adam: Pârsa : amiy : hacâ : Pâ
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rsâ : Mudrâyam : agarbâyam : adam : niyaštâyam : imâm : yauviyâ
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m : katanaiy : hacâ : Pirâva : nâma : rauta : tya : Mudrâyaiy : danuvatiy : ab
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iy : draya : tya : hacâ : Pârsâ : aitiy : pasâva : iyam : yauviyâ : akaniya :
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avaþâ : yaþâ : adam : niyaštâyam : utâ : nâva : âyatâ : hacâ : Mudrâ
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yâ : tara : imâm : yauviyâm : abiy : Pârsam : avaþâ : yaþâ : mâm : kâma : âha

references: #kent page 147

Translation

A great god is Ahuramazda, who created yonder sky, who created this earth, who created man, who created happiness for man, who made Darius king, who upon Darius the King bestowed this kingdom, great, possessed of good horses, possessed of good men. I am Darius the Great King, King of Kings, King of countries containing all kinds of men, King in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian. Saith Darius the King: I am a Persian, from Persia I seized Egypt; I gave order to dig this canal from a river by name Nile which flows in Egypt, to the sea which goes from Persia. Afterward this canal was dug thus as I had ordered, and ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia thus as was my desire.
references: #kent page 147

Support

type: granite stele

provenience

site: 33rd kilometer-stone from Suez

references: #kent page 111

References

Kent Roland G., Old Persian (Grammar Texts Lexicon), New Haven (Connecticut) 1953

Weissbach F.H., Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden, Leipzig 1911

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