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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."

Bjørn Christian Tørrissen CC BY-SA 3.0

Inscription in Babylonian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg

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Inscription in Elamite, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg

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Inscription in Old Persian, in the Xerxes I inscription at Van, 5th century BCE.jpg

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Inscription of Xerxes, Van, 1973.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

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Van, Citadel, Approach from the west.jpg

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Van citadel, inscription XV of Xerxes I.jpg

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View of Cuneiform Inscription of Xerxes on Cliff Face - Van Castle (Van Kalesi) - Van - Turkey (5794496084).jpg

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Xerxes Cuneiform Van.JPG

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Xerxes Cuneiform Van (cropped).png

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Xerxes Van inscription, copy by Schulz in 1827.jpg

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