Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives.

Through archaeological, philological, historical and geographical contributions, this volume offers an overview of the present research in the socio-economic, historical and political developments of the Suso-Elamite region from prehistoric times until the great Persian Empire.

Katrien De Graef, Ph.D. (2004) in Assyriology, Ghent University, is Research Fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders. She has published extensively on 2nd millennium BC socio-economic history of Susa, including two MDP volumes on the tablets excavated by Ghirshman.Jan Tavernier, Ph.D. (2002) in Oriental Studies, University of Leuven, is currently Charge de Cours at the Centre d'Etudes Orientales Universite Catholique de Louvain. His research domains are Elamite and Iranian languages and history, history of the Achaemenid Empire and Language History of the First Millennium B.C., domains on which he has published frequently, inter alia Iranica in the Achaemenid period (ca. 550-330 B.C.). Lexicon of Old Iranian proper names and loanwords, attested in non-Iranian texts (2007).