Research Catalog

Title

Xerxes and Babylonia : the cuneiform evidence / edited by Caroline Waerzeggers and Maarja Seire.

Publication

• Leuven : Peeters, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Waerzeggers, Caroline
• Seire, Maarja

Description

206 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta ; 277

Uniform Title

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 277.

Subjects

• History
• Babylonia > History > Sources
• Xerxes > I, > King of Persia, > 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C
• Cuneiform inscriptions
• Middle East > Babylonia
• Sources

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFF 19-1543

ISBN

• 9042936703
• 9789042936706

OCLC

1083705055

Title

Xerxes and Babylonia : the cuneiform evidence / edited by Caroline Waerzeggers and Maarja Seire.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta ; 277

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 277.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Waerzeggers, Caroline, editor.

Seire, Maarja, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1543