AWAN, name of a place in ancient western Iran, the nominal dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in the late third…

PERSEPOLIS ADMINISTRATIVE ARCHIVES, two groups of clay tablets, fragments, and sealings produced and stored by administrative agencies based at Persepolis….

HIDALI (Akkadian Ḫidala, Ḫidali, Ḫidalu, Ḫajdalu; Neo-Elamite Hidali, Idali; Achaemenid Elamite Hidali), city and region in Elam; a residence of…

HALLOCK, RICHARD TREADWELL (b. Passaic, New Jersey, 5 April 1906, d. Chicago, 20 November 1980), Elamitologist and Assyriologist, whose magnum…

GANZABARA (treasurer), titleof provincial and sub-provincial financial administrators in the Achaemenid empire, extended to workers attached to Achaemenid treasuries; title…