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Inscriptions on the Monuments of the Achcepienides. 269 
THE INSCRIPTION OF ARTAXERXES MNEMON AT SUSA. 
This inscription is upon the base of one of the columns in the ruins 
of what once must have been a great palace. Much of this building was 
used for the pavement of other edifices by the races which in after time 
possessed this spot. 
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A. 
I (am) Artaxerxes, the great king, king of kings, the son of Darius* the 
king. 
B. 
Upon the base of a pillar in a large row of columns. This palace 
seems to have been fashioned after the model of that of Darius at Per- 
sepolis. In connection with this edifice it is interesting to refer to Dan. 
viii. 2. “ and it came to pass when I saw, that I was in Susa (or Shu- 
shan) in the palace ” etc. 
Says Artaxerxes the great king, king of kings, king of the countries, 
king of the earth, the son of Darius the king; Darius (was) the son of 
Artaxerxes the king; Artaxerxes (was) the son of Xerxes the king; 
Xerxes (was) the son of Darius the king; Darius (was) the son of Hys- 
taspes, the Achaemenide; this building Darius, my ancestor made. 
..... Artaxerxes (my) grandfather.Anakata 
and Mithra.by the grace of Auramazda the building I made; let 
Auramazda, Anahata and Mithra protect me.. 
* Darayavus (Darius) although having a stem in u is treated like nouns whose stems end 
in a. So in Prakrit there is a strong tendency for the so-called first declension to trespass 
upon the others, thus breaking down the barriers which were observed by the Sanskrit. 
