My OperaAchaemenid Royal Inscriptions: DNc-e
Friday, May 29, 2009 4:18:25 AM
In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, the Aryan script, was to be developed. This was used for a small corpus of inscriptions, known as the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions. An overview of all inscriptions can be found here.
Darius was buried at Naqš-i Rustam. The inscriptions on the upper and central registers of his tomb (DNa and DNb) are well-known, but there are several smaller texts on the same monument: two trilingual honorific inscriptions for the courtiers Gobryas and Aspathines, and inscriptions on the figures supporting Darius' throne. Because inscription DNe mentions Macedonians, it must have been made after 512.
DNe, indications of people
1. iyam \ Pârsâ
2. iyam \ Mâda
3. iyam \ Uvja
4. iyam \ Parthava
5. iyam \ Haraiva
6. iyam \ Baxtriya
7. iyam \ Suguda
8. iyam \ Uvârazmiya
9. iyam \ Zrakâ
10. iyam \ Harauvatiya
11. iyam \ Thataguiya
12. iyam \ Gadâraya
13. iyam \ Hiduya
14. iyam \ Sakâ \ haumavargâ
15. iyam \ Sakâ \ tigraxaudâ
16. iyam \ Bâbiruš
17. iyam \ Athuriya
18. iyam \ Arabâya
19. iyam \ Mudrâya
20. iyam \ Arminiya
21. iyam \ Katpatuka
22. imay \ Spardiya
23. iyam \ Yaunâ
24. iyam \ Sakâ \ paradraiya
25. iyam \ Skudra
26. iyam \ Yauna \ takabarâ
27. iyam \ Putâya
28. iyam \ Kušâya
29. iyam \ Maciya
30. iyam \ Karka
1. This is the Persian.
2. This is the Mede.
3. This is the Elamite.
4. This is the Parthian.
5. This is the Arian.
6. This is the Bactrian.
7. This is the Sogdian.
8. This is the Chorasmian.
9. This is the Drangian.
10. This is the Arachosian.
11. This is the Sattagydian.
12. This is the Gandaran.
13. This is the man of Sind.
14. This is the haoma-drinking Saca.
15. This is the Saca with the pointed hat.
16. This is the Babylonian.
17. This is the Syrian.
18. This is the Arab.
19. This is the Egyptian.
20. This is the Armenian.
21. This is the Cappadocian.
22. This is the Lydian.
23. This is the unnamed tribes ("Greek")
24. This is the Scythian from across the sea.
25. This is the Thracian.
26. This is the Macedonian.
27. This is the Libyan.
28. This is the Kushite.
29. This is the man of Maka.
30. This is the Carian.
http://www.livius.org/aa-ac/achaemenians/DNc-e.html#DNe
