Atossa Re-Enters: Cyrus's Other Daughter In Persepolis Fortification Texts
Matthew W. StolperOf the Achaemenid royal women mentioned in the Persepolis Fortification Archive, two names predominate: Irtaštuna, Greek Artystone, the daughter of Cyrus whom Herodotus (vii.69.2) called Darius’s “favorite wife,” and Irdabama, unknown to Herodotus and other Classical writers. As David Lewis observed (1984:599) “it has proved distressingly difficult to find Atossa.”
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58
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2018
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Peeters Publishers
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english
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24
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Acta Iranica
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english, 2018