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[3] She was the wife of Abradatas, a Susian, and when the Assyrian army was captured it happened that her husband was away: his master had sent him on an embassy to Bactria to conclude an alliance there, for he was the friend and host of the Bactrian king.
Cyropaedia 2007
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I have enumerated them merely to suggest that any hasty inferences regarding the bearing of the Susian design upon the general problem are apt to be misleading.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Susian design adopted in the West and given a symbolic meaning which it did not have before then?
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The second column, called the Median or Susian text, was not deciphered until 1890.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The second style of cuneiform generally known as "Median", or "Susian", is, again, a slight modification of the "Persian".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Elamite names of Tišpak and Šušinak, "the Susian goddess."
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895
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The second style of cuneiform, generally known as Median or Susian, [13] is again only a slight modification of the "Persian."
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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In any case, we have serious reasons for thinking that the third of the dynasties of Berosus, with its eleven kings, was of Susian origin.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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Ourkam is the Menes of Chaldæa, and his date is put long before that Susian conquest of which we have spoken above.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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It stood at the summit of the great platform, a quadrilateral mass of unburnt brick, which from a remote antiquity had supported the residence of the old Susian kings.
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