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Babylon = land of Assyria (1)

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Assyria as a designation of Babylonia
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.03 Identification of the Achaemenid Empire with Assyria
12.02.03.03.02 Assyria as a designation of Babylonia
Dams
07 Crafts and economy
07.01 Engineering and technology
07.01.01 Irrigation systems
07.01.01.03 Dams
Irrigation systems
07 Crafts and economy
07.01 Engineering and technology
07.01.01 Irrigation systems

Keywords
Assyria
water

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Arrian, Anabasis 7.21.4-6:
If, however, the bed of the Pallacopas was not in turn blocked … then the Assyrian plain would never be watered from it. But the outlets of the Euphrates into the Pallacopas were blocked by the satrap of Babylon … Yet even so for three months over ten thousand Assyrians were engaged in the task … When this was reported to Alexander it incited him to try to assist the land of Assyria.

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Arrian, Anabasis 7.21.4-6

Simo Parpola

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