Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (Ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts

by J. Tavernier

This book collects and discusses the Old Iranian divine names, personal names, geographical names (toponyms, hydronyms and oronyms) and loanwords, which are attested in texts written in Aramaic, Babylonian, Egyptian, Elamite, Lycian, Lydian and Phrygian. The texts, both royal inscriptions and documentary texts, are discovered in the entire territory of the Achaemenid Empire (from Egypt to Bactria), which controlled the Ancient Near East from ca. 550...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042918330
• ISBN13: 9789042918337
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 850 Pages
• Weight: 3.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.6"