King darius iii egyptian symbols
Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great
Achaemenid inscriptions in Egypt
The Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great were texts written in Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of the "Canal of the Pharaohs" between the Nile and the Bitter Lakes.[1]
One of the finest preserved of these monuments was a stele of pink granite, which was discovered by Charles de Lesseps, Ferdinand de Lesseps's son, in , 30 kilometres from Suez near Kabret in Egypt.
Egyptian statue of Darius the Great - Wikipedia: The hieroglyphs of Darius III, including rare variants, with detailed descriptions of the titles and the sources of the name. Darius III was the third pharaoh of the Thirty-first Dynasty. a.k.a. Dareios III.It was erected by Darius the Great, king of the Achaemenid Empire (or Persia), whose reign lasted from to BCE. The monument, also known as the Chalouf stele (alt. Shaluf Stele), records the construction of a forerunner of the modern Suez Canal by the Persians, a canal through Wadi Tumilat, connecting the easternmost, Bubastite, branch of the Nile with Lake Timsah, which was connected to the Red Sea by natural waterways.[2] The stated purpose of the canal was the creation of a shipping connection between the Nile and the Red Sea, between Egypt and Persia.
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Partial transliteration and translation of the inscription:
xâmaniťiya \ thâtiy \ Dârayavauť \ XŠ\ adam \ Pârsa \ amiy \ hacâ \ Pâ rsâ \ Mudrâyam \ agarbâyam \ adam \ niyaťtâyam \ imâm \ yauviyâ m \ katanaiy \ hacâ \ Pirâva \ nâma \ rauta \ tya \ Mudrâyaiy \ danuvatiy \ ab iy \ draya \ tya \ hacâ \ Pârsâ \ aitiy \ pasâva \ iyam \ yauviyâ \ akaniya \ avathâ \ yathâ \ adam \ niyaťtâyam \ utâ \ nâva \ âyatâ \ hacâ \ Mudrâ yâ \ tara \ imâm \ yauviyâm \ abiy \ Pârsam \ avathâ \ yathâ \ mâm \ kâma\ âha
"King Darius says: I am a Persian; setting out from Persia I conquered Egypt.
I ordered to dig this canal from the river that is called Nile and flows in Egypt, to the sea that begins in Persia. Therefore, when this canal had been dug as I had ordered, ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, as I had intended."