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Alexander Dates in Lydian Inscriptions

LW 3 and 50, the two Lydian inscriptions mentioning the Macedonian king Alexander in the date formula, have been dated 330/29 and 323/2 BC in the past on the basis of the dates in Babylonian cuneiform documents. Thanks to new insights in the Babylonian evidence, it is now clear that the cuneiform documents were dated to Alexander's Macedonian regnal years. The dates of the Lydian inscriptions LW 3 and 50 have therefore to be shifted to 333/2 or 332/1 BC and 325/4 or 324/3 BC. As a result, no posthumous dates for Alexander the Great are attested in the Lydian documentation.

Kadmos, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0022-7498
Volume: 44, 12/2005
Pages: 165 - 174

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