[DOC] [TLE] Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes the ... [PAR] 550-330 BCE), sometimes known as First Persian Empire, was an empire in ... It 
expanded to eventually rule over significant portions of the ancient world which at 
... by enforcing respect for the royal Persian kings including Cyrus the Great, and 
.... and his daughter Atossa would marry Darius the Great and bear him Xerxes I. [DOC] [TLE] Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: XPh ('Daiva inscription') - Livius [PAR] One of the most important Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions is the "Daiva 
inscription". The Old Persian text is known from three slabs of stone from 
Persepolis and the citadel ... yam \ hacma \ athahiya \ ava \ akunava \ d; tam 
\ tya \ man \ avadi ... I am Xerxes, the great king, king of kings, king of countries 
containing many... [DOC] [TLE] Old Persian Texts - AVESTA -- Zoroastrian Archives [PAR] The Achaemenian Kings left extensive cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian ... 
Xerxes, Persepolis: XPa, XPb, XPc, XPd, XPe, XPf, XPg, XPh, XPi, XPj, XPk ... 
May Ahuramazda protect me, and my royal house, and may he protect this land 
which I hold. ... Cyrus the Great King, son of Cambyses the King, an 
Achaemenian. [DOC] [TLE] cyrus and the achaemenids - Achemenet [PAR] despite the consistent antipathy toward the Lie (Old. Persian drauga) 
emphasised in his royal inscriptions. As typical of ... ical import of Darius' use of 
the label Achaemenid. ... him through four generations: Darius the king ... 
modern scholarship) dual Achaemenid line and Darius' .... By 539, Cyrus had 
conquered Media (c. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Ancient Persia From 550 BC to 650 AD 2001" [PAR] 8K# Josef Wiesehofer I.B.TAURIS Ancient Persia JOSEF WIESEHOFER 
ANCIENT ... (drawings by C. Niebuhr) 235 Plates I Bisutun, relief and inscription 
of Darius I II ... of Cyrus VIII Darius statue from Susa IX Naqsh-i Rustam, general 
view X a ... King as I did his father - my beloved friend Xerxes - and his father 
before him,... [DOC] [TLE] PASARGADAE  Encyclopaedia Iranica [PAR] Jul 20, 2009 ... capital city and last resting place of Cyrus the Great (r. ... Persepolis, R. T. Hallock 
came to realize (D. Stronach, personal communication) that .... cuneiform 
inscriptions to the pioneer decipherer of Old Persian, Georg Friedrich Grotefend. 
... of the site as Pasargadae began to form in the scholarly community. [DOC] [TLE] Rawlinson, Henry ii: Contributions to Assyriology and Iranian Studies [PAR] Dec 15, 2009 ... Ab  Ac  Am  As  B  C  D  E  F ... 3), Rawlinson replicated that feat using the old 
Persian inscriptions DE (of Darius I) and XE (of Xerxes I). ... to Edwin Norris (1795
-1872) of the Royal Asiatic Society in August 1846 (Hincks, 2007, p. ... while fairly 
wide of the mark, soon made their way to interested scholars. [DOC] [TLE] DARIUS AND THE ACHAEMENTD LINE [PAR] the false Smerdis (DB 10-13), Darius claim to kinship with Cyrus and ... 
scholarly literature, references to which are provided in the footnotes. ... 3 For the 
Old Persian version, R. Schmitt, Bisitttn: Old Persian Text (London 1991). .... The 
Pasargadae inscriptions, conversely, label Cyrus only as 'ritchaernenidf'16 This 
is. [DOC] [TLE] Mechanics of Empire - Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the ... [PAR] Mechanics of Empire - Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid ... 
Some elements of the King's wardrobe were not unique to him, such as the ... 
sources, the daughter of Cyrus whom Darius married upon taking the throne. ... 
There are several dahyu-lists from the inscriptions of Darius and one from Xerxes
. [DOC] [TLE] Spring (#157) - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago [PAR] Achaemenid kings devoted little space in their royal inscriptions to the struggles 
.... of scholarship on Old Persian and Old

Question: Scholars label Old Persian royal inscriptions X for Xerxes, C for Cyrus & D for him
Answer: Darius