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Xerxes had outraged the Babylonians in 484 …
Years: 482BCE - 482BCE
Xerxes had outraged the Babylonians in 484 BCE by violently confiscating and melting down the golden statue of Bel (Marduk, Merodach), the hands of which the rightful king of Babylon had to clasp each New Year's Day.
This sacrilege had led the Babylonians to rebel in 484 and 482 BCE, so that in contemporary Babylonian documents, Xerxes refuses his father's title of King of Babylon, being named rather as King of Persia and Media, Great King, King of Kings (Shahanshah) and King of Nations (i.e.
of the world).
Xerxes deals with the revolt by razing the walls and plundering the city.
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- Persian people
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- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
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Years: 482BCE - 482BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
Commodoties
Subjects
- Commerce
- Architecture
- Engineering
- Environment
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Faith
- Government
- Custom and Law
- Technology
Regions
Subregions