Ancient Persian Lexicon and the Texts of the Achaemenidan Inscriptions Transliterated and Translated

Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes II, and Artaxerxes III

Translated by Herbert Cushing Tolman

57 chapters · about 33 min

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The opening

Xerx. Sus.

Says Xerxes the king: By the grace of Ahura Mazda this dwelling Darius the king made who (was) my father.

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About this edition

The words
Herbert Cushing Tolman's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 26 places
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
  • Half title
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Copyright notice (1908, H. C. Tolman) (3 blocks)
  • Pictures and their captions
  • Tolman's transliteration of the Old Persian (label and text), left out as on the facing pages (2 blocks)
  • The drawing of the fragments, read by the OCR as characters (“fr”, “R”, “'^^^ rrnVin:”) (3 blocks)
  • Tolman's source for the fragments (“J. de Morgan, D6l6gation en Perse, Vol. 1, p. 130.”)
  • The back cover's stamp, read by the OCR as characters