Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia
M.A. Dandamayev
Based on a meticulous study of the texts—mostly cuneiform, legal and economic
documents— mentioning Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia (539-330 B.C.), Dr. Dandamayev
has reconstructed the social, economic, and administrative life of the Persians, Medes,
and other Iranian peoples in Babylonia under the Persian Empire. The heart of the book is
a dictionary of over 350 Iranian names mentioned in connection with Babylonia. Essays on
the changes in Babylonian life under the Achaemenid and on the role of Iranians in
Achaemenid Babylonia explore the implications of the information on the linguistics of the
early Iranian languages, economic and social life of Babylonia, and the government of the
Achaemenid Empire.
Specifications:
1992:xii + 254 pp., index.
Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, No. 6
ISBN:0-939214-99-7(cloth): $35.00  Now
$15.00
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