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Aramaic = Assyrian language (1)

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Aramaic as “Assyrian language”
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.08 Aramaic as “Assyrian language”
Imperial languages
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
Letters and imperial mail
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.04 Letters and imperial mail

Keywords
Aramaic language
Assyrian language
scripts

Period
5th century BCE
Achaemenid Empire
Greek Classical Age

Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Thucydides reports that the Persian Artaphernes, who was carrying a message from the Great King to Sparta, was taken prisoner, brought to Athens, and the letters he was carrying were translated from the Assyrian language.

Thucydides 4.50.2:
He was conducted to Athens, where the Athenians got his dispatches translated from the Assyrian character (Assuriôn grammatôn) and read them.

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Thucydides 4.50.2

Simo Parpola

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