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The one authoritative study of history and institutions, with full analysis of problems
of sources, methodology and interpretation, with full references, is:


P. Briant, 1996 , Histoire de l’empire perse: de Cyrus à Alexandre(Paris: Fayard; Leiden: Netherlands
Institute for the Near East (Achaemenid History IX)), now available in English as: P. Briant,
2002 , From Cyrus to Alexander: history of the Persian empire(trans. P. Daniels, Winona Lake IN:
Eisenbrauns).


For critical, annotated bibliographical updates, see:


P. Briant, 1997 , Bulletin d’Histoire AchéménideI (Topoi Suppl. I: Lyon).
P. Briant, 2001 , Bulletin d’Histoire AchéménideII (Paris: Thotm).


For Persia before the empire and its relationship to Elam, see:


W. Henkelman, 2003 , ‘Persians, Medes and Elamites: acculturation in the Neo-Elamite period’,
in G. Lanfranchi, M. Roaf and R. Rollinger (eds), Continuity of Empire(?): Assyria, Media, Persia
(Padua: Sargon, Editrice e Libreria: 181 – 231 ).


The fundamental study of the formulation of Achaemenid royal iconography is:


M.C. Root, 1979 , The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: essays on the creation of an
iconography of empire (Acta Iranica III/ 9 ; Leiden: Brill).


For the ahistorical nature of Old Persian Royal Inscriptions, see:


Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H., 1999 , ‘The Persian kings and history’, in C.S. Kraus (ed.), The Limits
of Historiography: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts(Mnemosyne Suppl. 191 ; Leiden:
Brill: 91 – 112 ).


The main collections of texts are (in alphabetical order):


Cahiers de la Délégation Francaise en IranIV (Paris, 1984 ).
G.G. Cameron, 1948 , The Persepolis Treasury Tablets(Oriental Institute Publications 65 ; Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press).
A.K. Grayson, 1975 , Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles(Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5 , Locust
Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin) (the Nabonidus Chronicle = no. 7 ).
P. Grelot, 1972 , Documents Araméens d’Egypte(Littératures Anciennes du Proche-Orient 5 ; Paris:
Editions du Cerf).
R.T. Hallock, 1969 , The Persepolis Fortification Tablets(Oriental Institute Publications 92 ; Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press).
–––– 1978 , ‘Selected Fortification Tablets’, Cahiers de la Délégation Archéologique Francaise en Iran
8 : 109 – 136.
R.G. Kent, 1953 , Old Persian. Grammar, Texts, Lexicon( 2 nd edn, New Haven, CT: American
Oriental Society).
B. Porten and A.Yardeni, 1986 – 1993 , Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, ( Jerusalem:
Hebrew University Press).
G. Posener, 1936 , La première domination perse en Egypte(Bibliothèque d’Étude de l’Institut Francais
d’Archéologie Orientale XI; Cairo).
H.-P. Schaudig, 2001 , Die Inscriften Nabonids von Babylon und Kyros des Grossen samt den in ihrem
Umfeld entstandenen Tendenzschriften(AOAT 256 , Münster: Ugarit-Verlag) (the most recent
edition of the Cyrus Cylinder, see pp. 550 – 556 ).
R. Schmitt, 1991 , The Bisitun Inscription of Darius the Great: Old Persian Text(Corpus Inscriptionum
Iranicarum II/ 1 ; London: School of Oriental and African Studies).
–––– 2000 , The Old Persian Inscriptions of Naqsh-i Rustam and Persepolis(Corpus Inscriptionum
Iranicarum I/ 2 ; London: School of Oriental and African Studies).


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