Persepolis Fortification Tablets

Abstract

Alongside the Achaemenid royal inscriptions and the Greek sources, the Persepolis Fortification tablets provide unique insights into the Persian administrative system. The information extracted from this archive shows that the Achaemenid bureaucracy created a rigorous accounting system to control the vast amount of monthly and daily disbursements of food commodities and rations to a huge number of recipients, including workers, travelers, official elites, the royal family, animals, and gods.

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