The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient IranAfter reviewing knowledge of Iron Age Iran, the authors look in detail at the highly developed social institutions of the Achaemenid Empire, most notably at state administration, agrarian relations, monetary systems, slavery and trade. A wide-ranging discussion of that culture covers such topics as the religion of the Ancient Iranians, ethnic and cultural contacts with the Achaemenid Empire, and superstitious and scientific practices in the ancient Near East during the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C. |
Contents
B The archaeology of Iran in the Iron | 6 |
Iron Ages IIII | 15 |
Iran from the ninth to the first half of the sixth century B C | 45 |
E The culture of the Medes | 62 |
The social institutions and the economic structure of | 90 |
Achaemenid culture | 238 |
Conclusion | 367 |
Abbreviations | 402 |
List of works cited | 410 |
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The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran Muhammad A. Dandamaev,Vladimir G. Lukonin No preview available - 1989 |
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Achaemenid empire Achaemenid kings Achaemenid period administration Ahuramazda Akkadian Anab ancient apadana appear Aramaic archaeological Arshama Artaxerxes Artaxerxes II Asia Minor Assyrian Avesta Babylon Babylonian barley Behistun Inscription bronze Cambyses ceramics Cimmerians civil servants coins countries craftsmen Ctesias cult culture cuneiform Cyrus the Younger dates depicted Diakonoff documents Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamite Elephantine excavations fifth century B.C. Fortification fourth century B.C. gods gold grain Greek Hasanlu Herod Herodotus house of Murashu images instance Iran Iranian tribes Iron Age Judah kurtash land language livestock Luristan Lydian Magi Marlik Medes Median mentioned military millennium B.C. Mithra Museum Nippur Old Persian opinion palace papyri Pasargadae payment Persepolis Persian king Phoenician preserved priests received region reliefs religion royal Sakai satrap scholars scribes Scythian seals seventh centuries B.C. shekels silver slaves Susa Syria tablets taxes temple texts treasury troops Urartian Uruk various vessels wine Xenophon Xerxes Ziwiye Zoroaster Zoroastrianism