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Babylonia = Assyrian country (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria

Keywords
Assyria
Babylonia
cypresses

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Arrian, Anabasis 7.19.4:
… cutting down the cypresses in Babylonia; for this is the only tree which grows freely in the Assyrian country, which is bare of everything else necessary for shipbuilding.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Arrian, Anabasis 7.19.4

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Cf. Babylonia = Assyria (1)
Cf. Babylonia = Assyria (2)
Cf. Babylonia = Assyria (3)

Simo Parpola

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