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11 Language, communication, libraries and education
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The Greek word skylon for looted weapon and sylon for looting may derive from Akkadian šalālu to loot. There are also Greek deities Zeus Syllanios and Athana Syllania in the Spartan Rhetra.
Bibliography
Burkert 1992, 39
Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.