Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia.

• Author: Stolper, Matthew W.

* This is a review article of: Iranian in Achaemenid Babylonia. By MUHAMMAD A. DANDAMAYEV. Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studeis, numbr 6. Costa Mesa, Cal.: MAZDA PUBLISHERS, 1992. Pp. xi + 241. (1) Where possible, abbrevations and citations and the use of italics follow Dandamayev's style, on the supposition that users of these remarks may wish to collate them with the published text.

The style of volume is confusing. Citations of cuneiform text editions combine generally recognizable standard abbrevations of some works with sometimes opaque references in social-science format, by author and date, to others. The personal names under discussion are normally set in roman type, whether transliterated or normalized, as are personal names transliterated from other scripts. Aramaic spellings are given uppercase, but...