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Hanspeter Schaudig, “Die Inschriften Nabonids von Babylon und Kyros des Grossen samt den in ihrem Umfeld entstandenen Tendenzschriften: Textausgabe und Grammatik,” Alter Orient und Altes Testament 256 (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2001), pp. 550–556; “Cyrus Cylinder,” in The Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament, ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 316.

Alan B. Lloyd, “The Inscription of Udjah\orresnet: A Collaborator’s Testament,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68 (1968), pp. 170–174; the inscription in translation may be found in Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, pp. 36–41.

Stefan Zawadzki, “Cyrus-Cambyses Co-regency,” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale 90 (1996), pp. 171–183.

Pace A. Kuhrt and S. Sherwin-White (“Xerxes’ Destruction of Babylonian Temples,” Achaemenid History II: The Greek Sources [Leiden, 1987], pp. 79–80) who argue there is no evidence that any Persian king ever participated in the Akitu festival. See my Harvard Theological Review article for a discussion.

Posener, La première domination, nos. 8–10, pp. 48–87, pl. IV-XV. Diodorus claimed Darius did not finish the canal (I.33.9); however, a second stela found 3 kilometers south of Kabret states “ships filled with … arrived in Persia” indicating the canal was completed (line 16; Posener, p. 76). The location of a fourth stela is unknown. See Posener, p. 48, n.3; and C. Tuplin, “Darius’ Suez Canal and Persian Imperialism,” Achaemenid History VI (1991), pp. 237–283.

Posener, La première domination, nos. 3 and 4, pp. 30–36, pl. II.

Georges Posener, La première domination perse en Êgypte (Le Caire: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1936), p. 31.

Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, The Late Period (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1980), pp. 36–41, esp. n.9, p. 40.

Reading dyrwm, with 2 Samuel 22:48.

His king … his holy mountain. For a discussion of -y as the third pronominal suffix, see Dahood, Psalms I, p. 10.