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According to the Cyrus cylinder ancestors of this Persian king, that is
Teispes, Cyrus I and Cambyses I were great kings, kings of “the city of Anšan”.
Cyrus I, the grandfather of Cyrus the Great, is mentioned in the Annals of
the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal circ. 640 В. C. as “king of the land of
Parsumaš”.1 Therefore it would be quite natural to suppose that Anshan and
Parsumash (or Parsuaš, Pārsa, that is Persia) were alternative names of one
and the same country. But almost all scholars, except Herzfeld, were inclined
to reject this identification since in the Six-sided cylinder of Sennacherib
(V 31) Parsuash and Anshan are named as separate countries among the allies
of the Elamite king Umman-menanu...
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