Tavernier J. Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts

Leuven: Peeters, 2007. — LXIV, 850 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 158).
This book is the first part of the revised version of my doctoral dissertation “Iranica in de Achaemenidische periode (ca. 550-330 v.Chr.). Taalkundige studie van Oud-traanse eigennamen en leenwoorden, die geattesteerd zijn in niet-lraanse teksten”, which was written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. K. Van Lerberghe and Prof. Dr. P. Swiggers. The research conducted in this dissertation was possible thanks to a fellowship of the Research Foundation — Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek — Vlaanderen) and was carried out at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies. Section Ancient Near Eastern Studies) within the framework of the Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP P5/14). The research conducted in my doctoral dissertation consists of two major parts. The first part of this research is presented in this volume: a lexicon of the Old Iranian names of deities, personal names, place names, names of rivers and mountains and loanwords that are attested in non- Iranian texts dated to the Achaemenid period. This lexicon contains the source material for the second part, a linguistic study of these Iranica. In this study the importance of the Iranica for the knowledge of Old Iranian, as well as the information provided by these Iranica for the languages in which they are attested, are looked at.