Guess Who? Athamaita: a Rebel or a King?
(2023)
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- In the Bisitun inscription, the Achaemenid Darius claims to have defeated an Elamite rebel king Athamaita. Indeed, the Old-Persian name Athamaita is a hypocoristicon for the Elamite royal name Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak. Several scholars therefore identify the late Elamite rebel Athamaita with the Neo-Elamite king Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak. Subsequently, this paper questions whether the rebel Athamaita could be personally identified as the late Neo-Elamite king Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak based on historical arguments.
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Gorris, E. (2023). Guess Who? Athamaita: a Rebel or a King? In Pierfrancesco Callieri; Adriano V. Rossi (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Achaemenid Studies Today: A Societas Iranologica Europaea Mid-Term Conference. Libreria Unilibro Libri.