Ancien Culture and Languages

Ancien Culture and Languages

An Iranian Equivalent for Elamite HAL ÉŠŠANA tibba makka Consumed Before the King

Document Type : Original Article

Author
department of art studies, faculty of fine arts, university of tehran
Abstract
The Elamite HAL ÉŠŠANA tibba makka in Persepolis Administration Tablets generally translated to allotment/consumed before the king and correlates with allocation of commodities for royal table. Achaemenid royal table has been out of the most important foundations including a manifold and extensive administration which is to prepare and distribution commodities for a large number of stewards, staffs and the royal family along with the cattle involved it. Due to the importance of the royal table, the hypothesis of the paper suggests an Iranian equivalent. Here we investigate Old Persian *patibāga- manifestedin Aramaic texts as ptbg indicates royal meal dispenced and depicts that the word would be a pivotal in royal table terminology and seems likely HAL ÉŠŠANA tibba makka and Aramaic ptbg mlk would be a literally translation for reconstructed Old Persian xšāyaθiyahyā *patibāga. It seems that the Greek potibaziš in classic texts and Elamite ba-ti-ba-zi-iš in PFNN 2268:29 should be another representation of Old Persian *patibāga. Inestigating on the terminology and the administration of the royal table as a foundation serves the achaemenid studies to identify different dimension of cultural and social and political of this era. As a result, this survey shed a light on the late ancient Persia as known fur scholars for the continuity of achaemenid culture in different aspects.
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Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 8
January 2026
Pages 261-239

  • Receive Date 17 September 2024
  • Revise Date 16 October 2024
  • Accept Date 30 November 2024