In the Behistun Inscription, Darius justifies his assumption of power by claiming that the crushed rebellions were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death. Darius claims himself to be the true ruler of the Persion Empire through the "grace of Ahura Mazda."

Herodotus recorded his Histories in Greek. Based on discrepancies between Herodotus's account of Darius' rise to power as apposed to what is written in the Behistun Inscription (that are not differences in events but in names and relations) , it is plausible that he was not proficient or fluent in Old Persian, Elamite, or Babylonian; the three languages the Inscription was written in.

There can be many translations depending on the inscriptions. If that metal is a sword, it can be the name/title of the warrior or a small inscription of his favorite saying.

Just like you cannot ask what a general inscription on a plastic means without any context, you cannot ask what the literal Chinese translation of a (generic) inscription is without the proper context.

Behistun is a rock it was discovered by a German scholar named Grotefend in order to find out what the sumerians writing ment.

Henry lawrinson