128 Rev. Epwarp Hincxs on Persepolitan Writing. 
may here mention that the bracket between two syllables is intended to imply 
that the a of the former is to be taken as a guna to the vowel of the latter, con- 
verting w into 6, 7 into é, and er into dr. In the above transcription I have uni- 
formly represented the same character by the same letter or letters ; but Wester- 
gaard has arbitrarily used ¢a and da for 51, and so in other instances. The trans- 
lation of the above passage is as follows. I connect together words which repre- 
sent the same word in the original by hyphens, and supply in brackets two short 
words, which are here omitted, apparently by mistake, but which are found in 
other similar inscriptions, and in this place in I. : 
“« Deus maximus (est) Auramazdes, qui [hanc] terram creavit ; [qui] ceelum 
istud creavit ; qui hominem creavit ; qui fortunam creavit hominum ; qui Darium 
regem constituit ; unum, multorum regem; unum, multorum gubernatorem. Ego 
(sum) Darius, rex maximus, rex regum, rex provinciarum omnia-gignentium, rex 
terre hujus maximé grandis. 
As a further specimen I give the passage in E, of which the corresponding 
passage in I. has been already given : 
4, 3, 24, 56.19. 5. 23. 73. 56. 71. 23. 73, 23.18: 74. 76.79, 48. 
Dieta. TL Kh. sa.ra.sha Ku Ta... .sha .taeen: Ze Nee Aap Vili 
na. an.rt KG St CTS Ku er. sa-er 7a; sha. u.mi.n, 
Dicit Xerxes Rex magnus ; ex voluntate 
3. 76. 13. 57. 51... 4. 3. 1. 78. 5. 66. 56. 38. 22. 32. 51. 56, 38. 
a.u.r(a).z.da. n su — sa. thi Jo uyetuectta Jo 
an.u. ra .sh.ta. nda, si Er . si. ka(?) Yu yu.t .ta Yu 
Auramazdis hane Aulam Ego feci ; Me 
3. 760-13. S701)” 42°70 45.17. 45. 16. 3! 4. 27. 33.25" 47751. Sly 69. 82Aals 
a.u.r(a).z-.da  — ni.sh.—sh.— a-.n(a). p.pi.tu i.ta.ka qu.t.ta 
an.u. ra «sh. ta M.Ni.S .S8U.8.SEr an. nad .ap.pi. tu i.ta.ka ku.t.ta 
Auramazdis. tuere, Diis cum; atque 
1. 54. 42, 69. 28, 262 69. 32. 51, 27. 60. 22. 32. 51. 13. 
qu.q. we qu. t. ta p-pu jUs< jth tas r 
—.nreku.k, vi ku.t.ta ap «pu yu.t.ta.ra 
Regnum meum atque id- quod feci, 
