Iranians in Babylonia.
From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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Date: 10/1/1994
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Author: Stolper, Matthew W.
The ruling classes of the Achaemenid Empire left few texts in Old Iranian languages to record their names and concerns, so the study of Achaemenid Iranians relies on evidence in the languages of the Empire's subjects and adversaries. Greek and Babylonian texts were the richest source of this evidence before Hallock's Persepolis Fortification Tablets was published in 1969, and the Babylonian corpus is still pre-eminent for its wide distribution in time and space, its formal variety ...
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