Inscription of Xerxes at Persepolis in Persian, Median, and Assyrian.
["Inscriptions of the Persian Monarchs (Corpus Inscriptionum Persicarum)," Julius Oppert, tr. in Records of the Past, vol. 9 (London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1877), pp. 81-82]

A great god is Ormazd, who has created this earth, who has created that heaven, who has created the man, who has given to the man the Good Principle, who has made Xerxes King, sole King of many Kings, sole Emperor of many Emperors.

I am Xerxes, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of the lands where many languages are spoken, the King of this wide earth, the son of King Darius, the Achaemenian.

Xerxes the great King, says : By the grace of Ormazd I made this portal with the representations of all lands. Many other beautiful things have been made in this Persepolis, which I made and which my father made. All these works which look beautiful, all this we have made it by the grace of Ormazd.

Xerxes, the great King, says: May Ormazd protect me, and my empire, and my work, and my father's work, may Ormazd protect it all.

[1] Ahura-Mazda.

[2]It may be a monumental entrance where all lands are represented, or merely an entrance for all the lands, that is, a public staircase. The texts of XERXES are very uniform, and not very important; the real resulting fact is the name of the king Xerxes in Persian is Khsayârsâ, which proves to be identical with the Ahasuerus of the Old Testament.