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Large clay tablet with foundation inscription of Darius I (522-486 BCE).
The inscription is written in Old Persian and describes the construction of Darius’s palace at Susa.
“…This palace which I built at Susa, from afar its ornamentation was brought. Downward the earth was dug, until I reached rock in the earth. When the excavation had been made, then rubble was packed down, some 40 cubits in depth, another [part] 20 cubits in depth. On that rubble the palace was constructed…”
Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis, Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia. London: British Museum Press, 2005.
