A person who was very rich in earlier times and didn't have time to spend the money.
Or was stingy.

https://arkeonews.net/pot-overflowing-with-persian-gold-coins-from-400-bc-discovered-in-turkiye/
#Achaemenid #Archaeology #Türkiye

Name of Iranian city ‘Shiraz’ identified on 1800-year-old Sassanid clay seal

Archaeologists have identified the name “Shiraz” inscribed in Pahlavi script on a clay sealing dating back to the Sassanid era. This ancient city, located approximately 60 kilometers south of Persepolis, once served as the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/04/name-of-iranian-city-identified-on-sassanid-clay-seal/

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Over on the #ISAWNYU News blog today: "ISAW Professor Dan Potts Co-Edits Oxford History of the Ancient Near East"

https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/dan-potts-co-edits-oxford-history-of-the-ancient-near-east

"With the appearance of Volumes IV and V, covering the #Assyrian and #Achaemenid empires, publication of the five-volume Oxford History of the Ancient Near East is now complete. Co-edited by Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), Nadine Moeller (Yale University) and Dan Potts (ISAW), the five volumes cover the entire ..."

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Borges was more mysterious before I learned "the imposter wizard Smerdis" was a real person.

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some new listening in Bible and near east antiquity to mention

https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/31-jan-2023-new-bible-ancient-near-east-listening/

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