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ASPAČANĀ (Elamite Ašbazana, Babylonian Aspašini, Greek Aspathines; possibly already in Nuzi (Aššuzzana), a senior official under Darius the Great and Xerxes. The name signifies “delighting in horses” (cf. Av. Xšaθrō.činah- and see W. Brandenstein and M. Mayrhofer, Handbuch des Altpersischen, Wiesbaden, 1964, p. 107; W. Hinz, Neue Wege im Altpersischen,…

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ASPARUKH, a Middle Iranian proper name attested in ancient Georgia and early medieval Bulgaria (Grecized as Asparoukis); apparently the name was current in the Caucasus and in the Central Asian region where the proto-Bulgars originated. It is a compound with the prior element aspa- “horse;” the second element may be…

ASPASII, one of the tribal people encountered by Alexander the Great in Gandhāra, 327-26 B.C. (Arrian, Anabasis 4.23-25). While part of his army followed the main highway parallel to the Cophen/Kabul river (see A. Foucher, “De Kāpiśī à Pushkarāvatī,” BSOS 6, 1930-32, p. 343, map), Alexander led a force over…

ASPASTES, Greek form of an Old Persian name *Aspasta-, also attested in Elamite as Áš-ba-iš-da. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but it is probably related to aspasta (New Persian aspest) “clover, alfalfa” (W. Hinz, Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen, Wiesbaden, 1975, p. 43 with literature). The name was borne…

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ĀŠPAZ-ḴĀNA “kitchen.” This term seems to have gained currency only in the last two centuries or so, although the words āš and āšpaz (cook) occur in earlier texts (see, e.g., M. Dabīrsīāqī et al., Loḡat-nāma-ye-fārsī I, Tehran, 1363 Š./1984, p. 539). Before that the word maṭbaḵ was the one most often…

ĀŠPAZĪ, cooking . 1. Iranian foodstuffs. 2. Iranian cookery. 1. Iranian foodstuffs. The history of food consumption in Iran is primarily part of the history of agriculture and stockbreeding on the Iranian plateau. The staple food since ancient times has been based on wheat (gandom), millet (arzan), and to some…

ASPBED (older asppat from OIr. *aspa-pati-), “master of horses, chief of cavalry,” Parthian title attested in the Nisa documents and the inscription of Šāpūr I on the Kaʿba-ye Zardošt (ŠKZ). A similar Old Persian title is attested in an Elamite document from years 20 of the reign of Darius I…

ASPET, Armenian title (in contemporary Greek documents also Aspetes) hereditary in the Bagratuni (Bagratid) family. It has been derived from either Old Pers. *viθa/visapati “head of the clan” (N. Adontz, Armenia in the Period of Justinian, tr. and rev. by N. Garsoïan, Lisbon, 1970, p. 312), or, more convincingly, Old…