John Hyland. “The Achaemenid Messenger System and the Ionian Revolt: New Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification Archive”
John Hyland. “The Achaemenid Messenger System and the Ionian Revolt: New Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification Archive”, Historia 68.2 (2019), p.150-169
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1This article deals with the pirradaziš, translated as ‘express messengers’, attested in the Persepolis Fortification tablets, and the role these persons may have played in the wars waged in the imperial periphery, most notably Ionia. The author identifies an interesting small dossier of texts issues of travel rations on royal roads for such pirradaziš. This dossier attests to missions sent back and forth between Darius and his brother Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis in the run-up to the conquest of Miletos during the Ionian revolt (494/3 BCE).
2These tablets are in agreement with Herodotus’ reports of local officers’ frequent consultations with the Great King and the latter’s a personal involvement – and ultimately, his power of decision – in war campaigns also while physically distant.
3Another roughly contemporary groups of tablets from Persepolis documents the exchange of Darius with a certain Mišmina and may be relevant for the Ionian revolt as well; the author tentatively suggests that this official may have been the satrap of Cilicia.
4The appendix provides translations of pertinent texts.
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Reinhard Pirngruber, « John Hyland. “The Achaemenid Messenger System and the Ionian Revolt: New Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification Archive” », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 42-43 | 2021, document 6, mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2020, consulté le 17 août 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/51742 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.51742
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