A large cuneiform inscription found on the south side of the Van Castle hill, four kilometres west of modern-day Van, in eastern Turkey. It's several metres tall and wide, 25 centuries old and the message comes from the Persian king Xerxes.
In Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite, it says (roughly):
"Ahuramazda is the great god, the greatest god
who created the sky and created the land and created humans
Who gave prosperity to the humans
Who made Xerxes king
King of many kings, being the only ruler of the totality of all lands
“I am Xerxes, the great king, the king of kings,
the king of the lands, king of all the languages,
king of the great and large land,
the son of king Darius the Achaemenian”
The king Xerxes says:
“the king Darius, my father, praised be Ahuramazda,
made a lot of good,
and this mountain, he ordered to work its cliff
and he wrote nothing on it
so, me, I ordered to write here.
May Ahuramazda protect me, with all the gods
and so my kingdom and what I have done."
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription in Babylonian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription in Elamite, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription in Old Persian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription of Xerxes, Van, 1973.JPG
by John Hill
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OTVankaleDreisprachigeXerxesInschrift.jpg
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Trilingual inscription of Xerxes, Inscription on Van castle, Van Kalesi 2009.jpg
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Trilingual inscription of Xerxes, Van, 1973.JPG
by John Hill
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Tushpa 11.jpg
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Van, Citadel, Approach from the west.jpg
by Marco Prins
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Van citadel, inscription XV of Xerxes I.jpg
by Marco Prins
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View of Cuneiform Inscription of Xerxes on Cliff Face - Van Castle (Van Kalesi) - Van - Turkey (5794496084).jpg
by Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada
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Xerxes Cuneiform Van.JPG
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Xerxes Cuneiform Van (cropped).png
by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Xerxes Van inscription, copy by Schulz in 1827.jpg
by Schulz, 1827
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cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey
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A large cuneiform inscription found on the south side of the Van Castle hill, four kilometres west of modern-day Van, in eastern Turkey. It's several metres tall and wide, 25 centuries old and the message comes from the Persian king Xerxes. In Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite, it says (roughly): "Ahuramazda is the great god, the greatest god who created the sky and created the land and created humans Who gave prosperity to the humans Who made Xerxes king King of many kings, being the only ruler of the totality of all lands “I am Xerxes, the great king, the king of kings, the king of the lands, king of all the languages, king of the great and large land, the son of king Darius the Achaemenian” The king Xerxes says: “the king Darius, my father, praised be Ahuramazda, made a lot of good, and this mountain, he ordered to work its cliff and he wrote nothing on it so, me, I ordered to write here. May Ahuramazda protect me, with all the gods and so my kingdom and what I have done."
Fotoğrafçı: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
CC BY-SA 3.0
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Inscription in Babylonian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
Fotoğrafçı: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription in Elamite, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
Fotoğrafçı: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Inscription in Old Persian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg
Fotoğrafçı: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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Trilingual inscription of Xerxes, Inscription on Van castle, Van Kalesi 2009.jpg
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View of Cuneiform Inscription of Xerxes on Cliff Face - Van Castle (Van Kalesi) - Van - Turkey (5794496084).jpg
Fotoğrafçı: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada
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