Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 292
y by law-students, forpurposes of memorizing. As for the class of docu-ments known as contract-tablets, they do not byany means cease with the Babylonian Empire. Strayspecimens bring down the use of them to an aston-ishingly late period—as late as the first centuriesafter Christ,—if we are to trust… … MEDIA AND THE RISK np PERSIA. I. Had the throne of Media, du-in^ Nebuchadrez-zars long reign, been occupied by Kyaxares, or amonarch of the same ambitious and active stamp, itis very probable that the Babylonian would havehad occasion, in his lifetime, to test the efficiency ofthose bulwarks and…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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