Anshan(103 words)
[German version]
(Anzan). Name of a region of Elam and its main city (Tall-i Malyān, 36 km north-west of Shiraz), situated in western Fars (Persis); mentioned from the late 3rd millennium in Akkadian and Sumerian, and later Elamite, texts. The kings of Elam called themselves rulers of Anshan and Susa. On the Cyrus Cylinder (539 BC), Cyrus II calls his ancestors kings of Anshan.
Bibliography
E. Carter, Bridging the Gap Between the Elamites and the Persians in South Eastern Khuzistan, in: Achaemenid History 8, 1994, 65-95
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Kuhrt, Amélie (London) and
Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Helen (Utrecht),
“Anshan”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 26 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e123020>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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