- [UNTITLED]
- List of Maps
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
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- The History of Archaeological Research in Iran A Brief Survey
- Key Questions Regarding the Paleoenvironment of Iran
- The Paleolithic of Iran
- The Development and Expansion of a Neolithic Way of Life
- The Chalcolithic of Northern Iran
- The Chalcolithic in the Central Zagros
- The Later Village (Chalcolithic) Period in Khuzestan
- The Chalcolithic in Southern Iran
- The Early Bronze Age in Northwestern Iran
- The Bronze Age in Northeastern Iran
- Luristan and the Central Zagros in the Bronze Age
- Khuzestan in the Bronze Age
- Early Writing in Iran
- The Use of Akkadian in Iran
- Bronze Age Fars
- Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age
- The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in Northwestern Iran
- Luristan During the Iron Age
- The Central Alborz Region in the Iron Age
- Linguistic Groups in Iran
- Iranian Migration
- Assyria and the Medes
- Elam in the Iron Age
- Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the Early First Millennium BC
- Iron Age Southeastern Iran
- Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid Period
- Administrative Realities The Persepolis Archives and the Archaeology of the Achaemenid Heartland
- <i>Avesta</i> and Zoroastrianism Under the Achaemenids and Early Sasanians
- Royal Achaemenid Iconography
- Color and Gilding in Achaemenid Architecture and Sculpture
- Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid Period
- Old Persian
- Greek Sources on Achaemenid Iran
- Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran
- Media, Khuzestan, and Fars Between the End of the Achaemenids and the Rise of the Sasanians
- <i>Fratarakā</i> and Seleucids
- The Arsacids (Parthians)
- Parthian and Elymaean Rock Reliefs
- Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage
- Aramaic, Parthian, and Middle Persian
- The Use of Greek in Pre-Sasanian Iran
- Sasanian Political Ideology
- Sasanian Coinage
- Sasanian Interactions with Rome and Byzantium
- Sasanian Rock Reliefs
- Kuh-E Khwaja and the Religious Architecture of Sasanian Iran
- Sasanian Administration and Sealing Practices
- Luxury Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period
- Sasanian Textiles
- Pre-Islamic Iranian Calendrical Systems in the Context of Iranian Religious and Scientific History
- The Islamic Conquest of Sasanian Iran
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The administration of the Persepolis region is revealed in two groups of cuneiform tablets, written predominantly in Elamite and Aramaic, that were excavated at Persepolis in the 1930s by Ernst Herzfeld. The history of scholarship on these texts is discussed and the administrative system of which they formed an integral part is explained. The territorial extent of the Persepolis economy is described and the protocols used in dictating, writing, sealing, and archiving these texts are outlined.
Keywords: Persepolis, Ernst Herzfeld, Elamite, Aramaic, cuneiform
Wouter F.M. Henkelman is the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute (Germany).
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Maps
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- [UNTITLED]
- The History of Archaeological Research in Iran A Brief Survey
- Key Questions Regarding the Paleoenvironment of Iran
- The Paleolithic of Iran
- The Development and Expansion of a Neolithic Way of Life
- The Chalcolithic of Northern Iran
- The Chalcolithic in the Central Zagros
- The Later Village (Chalcolithic) Period in Khuzestan
- The Chalcolithic in Southern Iran
- The Early Bronze Age in Northwestern Iran
- The Bronze Age in Northeastern Iran
- Luristan and the Central Zagros in the Bronze Age
- Khuzestan in the Bronze Age
- Early Writing in Iran
- The Use of Akkadian in Iran
- Bronze Age Fars
- Eastern Iran in the Early Bronze Age
- The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in Northwestern Iran
- Luristan During the Iron Age
- The Central Alborz Region in the Iron Age
- Linguistic Groups in Iran
- Iranian Migration
- Assyria and the Medes
- Elam in the Iron Age
- Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the Early First Millennium BC
- Iron Age Southeastern Iran
- Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid Period
- Administrative Realities The Persepolis Archives and the Archaeology of the Achaemenid Heartland
- <i>Avesta</i> and Zoroastrianism Under the Achaemenids and Early Sasanians
- Royal Achaemenid Iconography
- Color and Gilding in Achaemenid Architecture and Sculpture
- Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid Period
- Old Persian
- Greek Sources on Achaemenid Iran
- Alexander the Great and the Seleucids in Iran
- Media, Khuzestan, and Fars Between the End of the Achaemenids and the Rise of the Sasanians
- <i>Fratarakā</i> and Seleucids
- The Arsacids (Parthians)
- Parthian and Elymaean Rock Reliefs
- Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage
- Aramaic, Parthian, and Middle Persian
- The Use of Greek in Pre-Sasanian Iran
- Sasanian Political Ideology
- Sasanian Coinage
- Sasanian Interactions with Rome and Byzantium
- Sasanian Rock Reliefs
- Kuh-E Khwaja and the Religious Architecture of Sasanian Iran
- Sasanian Administration and Sealing Practices
- Luxury Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period
- Sasanian Textiles
- Pre-Islamic Iranian Calendrical Systems in the Context of Iranian Religious and Scientific History
- The Islamic Conquest of Sasanian Iran
- Index
