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Ethnic Greeks in high administrative positions in Babylon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) “Syrianization” of Seleucid Greeks 12 Assyrian Identity 12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times 12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources 12.02.03.04 Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria 12.02.03.04.02 “Syrianization” of Seleucid Greeks	Keywords Alexander Babylon Greeks
Period 1st century BCE	Channel No channel specified

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Alexander the Great put a certain Harpalos in charge of the treasury in Babylon, and an Ionian Kallinikos is named as a ‘herald’ (azdakarri, from Iranian azdākara) in charge of revenues at the temple of Bel in Babylon in 314 BCE, a temple post probably taken over from the Achaemenid bureaucracy which had conducted its business in Aramaic and Akkadian.

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Dalley and Reyes 1998, 112	Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.
Stolper 1993, 82-86	Stolper, Matthew W. Late Achaemenid, Early Macedonian, and Early Seleucid Records of Deposit and Related Texts. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale 1993.

Stephanie Dalley

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