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FISCAL SYSTEM i. ACHAEMENID, ii. SASANIAN
There probably was no clear distinction between state and royal incomes in the Achaemenid empire. All state receipts were considered royal property, as was the income from the king’s estates. Beginning from ca. 519 B.C.E., when Darius I established a new tax system, the peoples subject to the Persians paid 7,740 Babylonian talents of silver (i.e., 232,200 kg) a year.
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GOLČIN MAʿĀNI, AḤMAD
(b. Tehran, 1916; d. Mašhad, 2000), literary scholar, bibliographer, and poet. He held various administrative and judicial posts in the Ministry of Justice (1934-59). His considerable knowledge of literary manuscripts was later put to good use when he was transferred to the Majles Library, where he catalogued the Persian and Arabic manuscripts.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Fascicle 1 of Volume XVI
The next fascicle in the print edition of Encyclopædia Iranica will become available by the end of May 2012. This fascicle marks the beginning of the sixteenth volume and continues coverage of letter “K.” It begins with the city of KASHAN and ends with the start of the entry on the Shiʿite biographer KAŠŠI, ABU ʿAMR MOḤAMMAD. Other multi-part entries, in addition to KASHAN, are KASHMIR and AHMAD KASRAVI.
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ZIGGURAT
by Michael Herles
“Tepe Sialk. The ziggurat lies on the southern mound, and dates to the Proto-Elamite Layer IV. It is probably the oldest known ziggurat not only in Iran but worldwide. ... The ziggurat had at least three stages, the lowest of which measured 56 m from east to west and 45 m from north to south of 45 m, and had a height of 4 m. The second stage measured 35 by 35 m, while from the third stage only two courses of mud brick have survived.”
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