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Sassanid Exhibition to Say Farewell to Cernuschi Museum. The exhibition of Sassanid Culture and Art at Paris’ Cernuschi Museum will come to an end next week and the artifacts on display at the museum for nearly three months will return home.
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Ganj Nameh inscriptions of Darius The Great
Ganj Nameh
On the gigantic rocks of Alvand mountain, the two Achaemenid kings
namely Darius the first and Xerxes (522 - 484 B.C.) have described
their conquests in an inscription carved in the stone asking for
help from Ahuramazda.
The later generations who could not read the cuneiform alphabets of
the ancient Persian, Elamite and Babilian scripts thought it was the
guide to an uncovered treasury.
Ganj Nameh is located five kilometers from southwestern Hamadan (the
ancient Ecbatana) which served as the capital of he Medes and
Achaemenids, in a region called Abbas Abad.
There are two plate inscriptions, one on the right side embracing
the name of Xerxes and the one on the left embracing the name of
Darius the Great.
The translation of the text of the right side plate attributed to
Xerxes is as follows: (The mighty lord is Ahuramazda, the god of
gods, who created this land, the sky and the people, the same god
who brought people happiness, who appointed Xerxes as king, the
unique king of kings, the unique ruler of the rulers, I am Xerxes,
the great king, king of kings, king of multinational countries, king
of this large land, the son of Darius the Achaemenid.) This
translation corresponds with part of the inscription attributed to
Xerxes at the main entrance of Persepolis and the other plate
inscription of Ganj Nameh attributed to Darius the first, the father
of Xerxes, had the same sentences with the difference that instead
of Xerxes it has the name of Darius.
These two plates too, similar to the majority of inscriptions by the
Achaemenid kings include greetings to Ahuramazda and the fathers and
forefathers of these kings.
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