The Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal, particularly constitutional questions. The famous grave inscription from Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) constitutes the conceptional center of a…
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After a first phase of dynamic expansion the Great Kings changed into a kind of ‘diplomatic policy’, particularly known from the western edge of the Achaemenid empire. Since Xerxes I…
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In Achaemenid royal representations the concept of empire is visualized by the plurality of its regions and/or peoples. The identifiability of these artistic depictions holds great consequences: the identity of…
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Professor Hilmar Klinkott studied Ancient History, (Classical) Archaeology, and Latin at the Ruprecht Carls University Heidelberg, earning a M.A. in 1997. He continued his studies at the University of Tübingen,…
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The Deportation of Gods – Between Persian Policy and Ptolemaic Ideology In early Hellenistic Egypt, a set of Ptolemaic inscriptions reported on an intriguing phenomenon, namely, Ptolemaic kings bringing back…
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