In modern dictionaries the word itihāsa is defined as “narrative, legend, history”. Lexicographers usually suggest the simple etymology: iti ha āsa “thus, truly, it was”. By Kshirasvāmin (the 11th century) it is said: “iti ha āsīd yatreti itihāsah, itir evamarthe, hah kilarthe”…
At the Department of Ancient Eastern Studies, the PhD dissertation by
M.A. Redina-Thomas Provincial Administration in Kassite Babylonia in the 14th-13th centuries B.C. (on the Material of Nippur Archives will be discussed.
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