Endnote 12 – Cyrus the Messiah

Posener, La première domination, nos. 8–10, pp. 48–87, pl. IV-XV. Diodorus claimed Darius did not finish the canal (I.33.9); however, a second stela found 3 kilometers south of Kabret states “ships filled with … arrived in Persia” indicating the canal was completed (line 16; Posener, p. 76). The location of a fourth stela is unknown. See Posener, p. 48, n.3; and C. Tuplin, “Darius’ Suez Canal and Persian Imperialism,” Achaemenid History VI (1991), pp. 237–283.