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The ruler of the Persian empire when these documents were written, must therefore have been Darius II.

The 14th year of Darius II.—the date of the destruction of the temple at Yeb—was 410 b.c., and his 17th year—the date when the appeal was sent to Bagohi—corresponds with 407 b.c.

Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II. and Parysatis, was born after the accession of his father in 424.

The oldest of which the date can be fixed go back to the reign of Darius II., the Itariayush of Lycian inscriptions.

Artaxerxes II., surnamed Mnemon, the eldest son of Darius II., whom he succeeded in the spring of 404.