{"id":4797,"date":"2026-10-15T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:27:58","slug":"women-of-the-empire-yazdan-safaee-persepolis-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/women-of-the-empire-yazdan-safaee-persepolis-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Safaee, Yazdan. Women of the Empire: Life and Labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4797\" class=\"elementor elementor-4797\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-187790b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"187790b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56bc4e2 ahura-dark-mode-filter-texts-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56bc4e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Published in 2026 by Brill as volume 20 of the <i>Ancient Iran Series<\/i>, Yazdan Safaee\u2019s <i>Women of the Empire: Life and Labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives<\/i> offers a comprehensive examination of women\u2019s status and roles within the socio-economic framework of the Achaemenid Empire. Drawing primarily on the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives, the book uses documentary evidence to investigate the lives, labor, and agency of women both within royal institutions and beyond. Its chapters explore a range of themes and contexts in which women appear in administrative records, reconstructing their participation in the imperial economy.<\/p><p><b>Book details and e-book download:<\/b> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/display\/title\/73412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brill<\/a>\u2060<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-lg superwebshare-button-default superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #BD3854;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2026 by Brill as volume 20 of the Ancient Iran Series, Yazdan Safaee\u2019s Women of the Empire: Life and Labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives offers a comprehensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"content_types":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"content_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_types?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}