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Xerxes I, Persepolis (XPh)

XPh · 56

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Script, transliteration, and transcription

Old Persian cuneiform: 𐏐 𐎲𐎺𐎫𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎰𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 𐏐 𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰/𐎡𐎹
Transliteration: : b-v-t-i-y : ϑ-a-t-i-y : x-š-y-a-r-š-a : x-š-a-y-ϑ-/i-y
Transcription: : bavatiy : ϑātiy : Xšayāršā : xšāyaϑiya
Editorial note: Source line has all recorded text layers. Machine-generated and unreviewed

Translation and meaning

Recorded English translations

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be, become · say · Xerxes I, king of Persia · king

Status: Machine-generated and unreviewed
Generator version: parsiandej-en-literal-b9b9284386e8ad0489cabc25ec9f186dad5830b53f51ff3a562dcc90dffec5f7
Confidence: Not recorded
Unresolved tokens: 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐

Machine-generated and unreviewed; this is not a human-reviewed critical translation.

Words in this line

Segmentation and word analysis

Words in line 56
Position	Inscriptional form	Lemma	Analysis
1	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
2	𐎲𐎺𐎫𐎡𐎹b-v-t-i-y	bav	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for bavati; English gloss: be, become. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
3	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
4	𐎰𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎹ϑ-a-t-i-y	θa	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for θāti; English gloss: say. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
5	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
6	𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠x-š-y-a-r-š-a	Xšayaṛsan	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for Xšayaṛšā; English gloss: Xerxes I, king of Persia. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
7	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
8	𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰/𐎡𐎹x-š-a-y-ϑ-/i-y	xšāyaθiya-	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for xšāyaθiya; English gloss: king. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed

Scholarly traceability

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XPh 56

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