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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: iption the king glorifies Aura-mazda, gives thanks to him for his blessings, and prays that heand the other divinities may ever protect the land. The sameidea is repeated in the Babylonian version, which is largely aparaphrase, and partly also in the Elamitic section, which adds,however, some interesting information, not found elsewhere, tothe effect that Darius was the first to fortify the place, whichwas not previously a stronghold.^ The adjoining inscriptionon a block to the right is written only in old Persian and 1 For some results from compara- see Weissbach and Bang, pp. 5, 34,tively recent diggings in the mound and Spiegel, pp. 46-50; and compareand some excavations among the ruins, Weissbach, Die Achdmenideninschrif-see Blundell, op. cit. pp. 537-559. ten Zweiter Art, p. 76; Bezold, Die 2 For a photograph of this inscrip- Achaemen. Inschr. p. 39. Consult like-tion, see Stolze and Andreas, Fer- wise, Justi, Qrundr. iran. Philol. 2.sepolis, 2. pi. 95; and for translations, 448.

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