Xerxes and Babylonia the cuneiform evidence
In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes' response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven
Peeters
2018
Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, Connecticut : [2018] |
| Colección: | Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009653763106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Debating Xerxes' Rule in Babylonia / Caroline Waerzeggers
- Towards a Framework for Interpreting Social and Economic Change in Babylonia During the Long 6th Century BCE / Reinhard Pirngruber
- Before Xerxes: The Role of the Governor of Babylonia in the Administration of Justice Under the First Achaemenids / Małgorzata Sandowicz
- Xerxes: The Case of Sippar and the Ebabbar Temple / Michael Jursa
- Uruk: The Fate of the Eanna Archive, the Gimil-Nanāya B Archive, and Their Archaeological Evidence / Karlheinz Kessler
- The Network of Resistance: Archives and Political Action in Babylonia Before 484 BCE / Caroline Waerzeggers
- Babylonian Scholarship and the Calendar During the Reign of Xerxes / Mathieu Ossendrijver
- The Esangila Temple During the Late Achaemenid Period and the Impact of Xerxes' Reprisals on the Northern Babylonian Temple Households / Johannes Hackl
- Uruk Before and After Xerxes: The Onomastic and Institutional Rise of the God Anu / Paul-Alain Beaulieu.
