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Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters. 
THE INSCRIPTION OF XERXES AT ALVEND. 
The following inscription is engraven upon two niches cut into a small 
rock: 
A great god (is) Auramazda, who (is) greatest of the gods, who created 
this earth, who created yonder heaven, who created man, who created the 
spirit? of man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of 
many. I (am) Xerxes the great king, king of kings, king of the provinces 
possessing many kinds of people, king of this great earth far and wide» 
the son of Darius the king, the Achaemenide. 
THE INSCRIPTION UPON THE VASE OF COUNT CAYLUS. 
This vase contains the three customary forms of cuneiform writing 
and a line of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This relic is preserved in Paris. 
Four fragments of similar alabaster vases containing the same quadri- 
lingual inscription have been found by W. K. Loftus in Susa, and are 
to be seen to-day in the British Museum. 
I (am) Xerxes, the great king. 
