Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period (539-332 Bce)

by André Lemaire

Inscriptions discovered since 1980 and fresh epigraph research have revealed much about the Archaeminid period in the Levant (533-332 BCE). Andre Lemaire concentrates on three areas where new data has shed light on the societies living in the largest empire that the world had known to that date.

Phoenicia played a vital political and economic role in the empire because Persian kings had to rely on the Phoenician navy in their wars against Greece...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197265898
• ISBN13: 9780197265895
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"