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Title

  • Xerxes and Babylonia : the cuneiform evidence

Summary

  • 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 before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes' policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers.

Names

  • Seire, Maarja, editor
  • Waerzeggers, Caroline, editor

Created / Published

  • Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018.
  • ©2018

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Xerxes--I,--King of Persia,--519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C
  • -  Cuneiform inscriptions
  • -  Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian--Iraq--Babylonia
  • -  Babylonia--History--Sources
  • -  Iraq--History--To 634--Kings and rulers
  • -  Middle East--Babylonia

Genre

  • History
  • Sources

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xii, 206 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS283

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020719469

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Chicago citation style:

Seire, Maarja, and Caroline Waerzeggers, editor. Xerxes and Babylonia: the cuneiform evidence. Leuven ; Bristol, CT: Peeters, . ©, 2018. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719469/.

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Seire, M. & Waerzeggers, C., editor. (2018) Xerxes and Babylonia: the cuneiform evidence. Leuven ; Bristol, CT: Peeters, . ©. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719469/.

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Seire, Maarja, and Caroline Waerzeggers, editor. Xerxes and Babylonia: the cuneiform evidence. Leuven ; Bristol, CT: Peeters, . ©, 2018. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719469/>.