Gobryas (Old Persian Gaubaruva): satrap of Babylonia and the countries "across the river" (Euphrates).
Achaemenid nobleman
Gobryas was appointed in his important…
Imperator ("commander"): Roman title, awarded to victorious commanders and emperors. The Greek equivalent is strategos autokrator.Iberian origin?
The Roman word imperator simply means "commander" or "general" and is the equivalent of Greek strategos. However, the expression had a second, more specific…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.DSaa, inscription on a slab of stone
[This text from Susa is a Babylonian, abridged variant of DSf on…
Tušpa: name of an ancient Urartian fortress on the eastern shore of Lake Thospitis, not far from the modern city of Van. One of the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions can be found on the southern face of the citadel of Tušpa.In ca.521, the Persian…
Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus (c.155-217): Roman nobleman, husband of the Syrian princess Julia Maesa, father of Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, grandfather of the emperors Heliogabalus (218-222) and Severus Alexander (222-235).
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Lepcis Magna: Phoenician colony, later part of the Carthaginian empire, the kingdom of Massinissa, and the Roman empire. Its most famous son was the emperor Septimius Severus (r.193-211).IRT 316 (EDCS-06000313)
Pro salu-
te Imp(eratoris) An-
tonini Aug(usti)
Pii libero-
rumq(ue) eius
Veneri
C(h)alc{h}idicae
Cupidinis
statuam
C(aius) Cl(audius) Septimi-
us [A]fer d(onum) d(edit) d(edicavit) p(osuit)
For the health of…
Limmu List: list of Assyrian officials who gave their names to a given year. Two parts survive, one dealing with the Middle Bronze Age and one dealing with years 858-699.
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Limmu List: list of Assyrian officials who gave their names to a given year. Two parts survive, one dealing with the reigns of Erišum I until Išme-Dagan I (twentieth until eighteenth century BCE) and one dealing with the years 858-699 BCE.
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