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Plutarch, “Life of Alexander” 37.6.

Diodorus Siculus, World History 17.69-73; and Arrian, Anabasis, 3.18, 10. See also Strabo, Geography, 15.729; and Quintus Curtius, History of Alexander 6.9.

Ctesias, Persika 15.

See Briant, Persian Empire, pp. 619 and 685–86.

(DNa §2) and Susa (DSe §2) and of Xerxes at Persepolis (XPh §2). See Kent, Old Persian, pp. 138 and 142; and Schmitt, Old Persian Inscriptions, 25 and 30 (DNa §2).

Aelian, Varia Historia XII.43, identified Darius as a “quiver-bearer” (pharetrophoron) for Cyrus.

For DNc (Naqsh-i Rustam) see Kent, Old Persian, p. 140; and Schmitt, Old Persian Inscriptions, p. 45 and plate 22a.

Darius, Susa f §3b and Xerxes, Persepolis f §3; see Kent, Old Persian, pp. 144 and 150; and Schmitt, The Old Persian Inscriptions of Naqsh-i Rustam and Persepolis (London, 2000), 84.

Column iii, lines 22–24. After A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, Texts from Cuneiform Sources (Locust Valley, NY, 1975), vol. 5, pp. 110–111 and J.-J. Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles, SBL Writings from the Ancient World (Atlanta, 2004), pp. 238–239.

For discussion and references, see Elizabeth Carter, “Bridging the gap between the Elamites and the Persians in Southeastern Khuzistan,” Achaemenid History VIII: Continuity and Change, ed. H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, A. Kuhrt, and Margaret Root (Leiden, 1994), pp. 65–95.