| 词条 | Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions |
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The best preserved of these monuments was a stele of pink granite, which was discovered by Charles de Lesseps, Ferdinand de Lesseps's son, in 1866, 30 kilometers from Suez near Kabret in Egypt. It was erected by Darius the Great, king of the Achaemenid Empire (or Persia), whose reign lasted from 522 BCE to 486 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. TextPartial transliteration and translation of the inscription:
xâmanišiya \\ thâtiy \\ Dârayavauš \\ XŠ \\ adam \\ Pârsa \\ amiy \\ hacâ \\ Pâ rsâ \\ Mudrâyam \\ agarbâyam \\ adam \\ niyaštâyam \\ 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 \\ niyaštâyam \\ 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." References and notes1. ^William Matthew Flinders Petrie, A History of Egypt. Volume 3: From the XIXth to the XXXth Dynasties, Adamant Media Corporation, {{ISBN|0-543-99326-4}}, p. 366 2. ^Barbara Watterson (1997), The Egyptians, Blackwell Publishing, {{ISBN|0-631-21195-0}}, p.186 See also
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