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The Achaemenid Palace Economy: Persepolis Fortification Tablets
The Persepolis Fortification Tablets, a trove of thousands of clay administrative documents from the reign of Darius the Great, offer an unprecedented window into the daily workings of the Achaemenid Empire. Unlike the grand inscriptions or Greek histories, these Elamite and Aramaic texts record the mundane details of the imperial economy: rations for workers, travel permits for officials, wages for craftsmen, and shipments of livestock and grain across the empire. The tablets reveal a complex system of redistribution centered on the royal estates around Persepolis, where tens of thousands of…
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