Inscriptions on the Monuments of the Achcemenides. 
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THE INSCRIPTIONS OF SUEZ. 
A crowned head is carved upon the stone together with the legend: 
Darins the great king, king of kings, king of the countries, the son of 
Hystaspes, the Achaemenide. 
Above are a dozen lines of Persian cuneiform text the translation of 
which follows. 
B. 
A great god (is) Auramazda, who created yonder heaven, who created 
this eai'th, who created man, who created the spirit ? of man, who made 
Darius king, who gave the kingdom to Darius; what great. 
.I (am) Darius the great king, king of 
kings, king of the countries possessing many people, king of this great 
earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, the Achaemenide. Says Darius 
the king I am a Persian; with (the help of) Persia I seized Egypt; I com¬ 
manded to dig this canal * from the Nile by name a river which flows 
in Egypt to the sea, which goes from Persia; afterwards this canal was 
dug there as I commanded..... 
*Cf. Herodotus IV. 39. Xrjyei $£ avzrj [p ' Apafirf), ov Xpyovda ei y?/ 
vojxop, £<s rov koXtcov zov ’Apafiiov, kS zov AapsioZ £K zov NiiXov 
diGopvxct kdfjyaye. 
17—A. & L. 
